Rashmika Mandanna recently shared her experience filming an intense scene from the blockbuster movie Animal, where she slapped her onscreen husband, portrayed by Ranbir Kapoor. In an interview, the actress revealed that she ended up crying and screaming after the emotionally charged scene. Mandanna also recalled the advice given to her by director Sandeep Reddy Vanga before filming the scene, which proved helpful.

The scene involved Mandanna’s character, Gitanjali, slapping her husband Rannvijay, played by Ranbir Kapoor, after he confesses to sleeping with Zoya, portrayed by Triptii Dimri. Rannvijay justifies his actions, claiming it was to uncover Zoya’s intentions, leading to a heated confrontation between the couple.

Animal, directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, was released on December 1. The film, also starring Anil Kapoor as Ranbir’s father and Bobby Deol as the antagonist, delves into a violent world set against the backdrop of a tumultuous relationship between Rannvijay Singh and his father Balbir Singh. However, the film has faced criticism for its misogyny and brutal violence from some viewers and critics.

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has told district leaders of the Trinamool Congress to be prepared to field candidates in all the three Lok Sabha seats in Murshidabad district, sources said.

Ms Banerjee’s instruction to her party was seen as posturing to its INDIA bloc partner Congress, headed by Mallikarjun Kharge.

The Congress is yet to respond on seat-sharing talks with the Trinamool for Murshidabad, which has three Lok Sabha seats, two of them held by Ms Banerjee’s party and one by the Congress.

Both Ms Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee were present at today’s meeting.

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is the MP from Berhampore under Murshidabad Lok Sabha constituency. He is fiercely opposed to any seat-sharing talks with Ms Banerjee’s party.

The other two Lok Sabha seats in Murshidabad constituency – Jangipur and Murshidabad – are under the Trinamool Congress.

The Trinamool Congress and the Congress’s seat-sharing talks have not made any progress so far. The Congress has also ignored the Trinamool’s deadline to close a seat-sharing deal in Bengal.

The CPI(M)-led Left Front in Bengal is also part of the Opposition INDIA bloc. The CPI(M) and the Congress appears to have aligned against the Trinamool and the BJP in Bengal.

The Trinamool last week decided to abstain from an INDIA bloc virtual meeting, and emphasised the necessity for the Congress to recognise its limitations in Bengal and allow the ruling party to spearhead the state’s political battle.

The Trinamool had previously allied with the Congress in the 2001 assembly election, the 2009 Lok Sabha election, and the 2011 assembly polls, leading to the ousting of the CPI(M)-led Left Front government of 34 years.

In the 2019 election, the Trinamool won 22 seats, Congress won two, and the BJP won 18 seats in the state.

Microsoft said on Friday that a Russian state-sponsored group hacked into its corporate systems on Jan. 12 and stole some emails and documents from its staffs’ accounts.

A Russian hacking group known in the cybersecurity industry as Nobelium, or Midnight Blizzard, used a “password spray attack” starting in Nov. 2023 to breach a Microsoft platform, the company said in a blog. Hackers use this technique to infiltrate a company’s systems by using the same password across multiple accounts.

The Russian group was able to access “a very small percentage” of Microsoft corporate email accounts, including members of its senior leadership team and employees in its cybersecurity, legal, and other functions, said Microsoft.

Microsoft’s threat research team routinely investigates nation-state hackers such as Midnight Blizzard, and the company said its probe into the latest breach indicated the hackers were initially targeting email accounts that had information about Midnight Blizzard.

The Russian Embassy in Washington and Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Microsoft said it investigated the incident and disrupted the malicious activity, blocking the threat actor’s access to its systems.

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