Indian students and workers in Israel are facing escalating fear as missile attacks from Iran hit cities like Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Safed. With international flights suspended, they await evacuation guidance. Many are desperate to return home amidst increasing hostilities and safety concerns.
Triptii Dimri was a part of multiple movies before she rose to fame with Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal last year. She started 2024 by sharing the screen with Vicky Kaushal and Ammy Virk in Bad Newz which ended up becoming one of the highest-grossing Hindi films of this year. Looking at her work on the big screen, it’s hard to believe that there was a time when she didn’t know the basics of acting. When she was filming Laila Majnu, the actress would go home and cry as she wouldn’t get what her director or co-star was talking about.
Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video is Triptii Dimri’s upcoming comic caper with Rajkummar Rao. In the midst of promoting the film, the actress spoke about not knowing the intricacies of acting when she moved from her hometown Garhwal in Uttarakhand to Mumbai. All she wanted to do was something that was different. The Qala actress told The Hollywood Reporter India that she was never academically good and expressed to her parents that she would give modeling a try. While she wanted to move to the city of dreams, her parents were initially scared of her decision as she was a shy and introverted person who never stepped out of Delhi.
Despite their parents not being happy about her decision to enter the entertainment world, she decided to give it a shot. Years later, she bagged a role in the 2017 film, Poster Boys. But working alongside Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, and Shreyas Talpade was difficult for her as she didn’t know the ‘a’ of acting. Hence, according to her, she didn’t perform well in it. In the chat, the Bulbbul star recalled landing Laila Majnu despite being rejected in her first attempt.
After getting the role, Triptii would attend workshops with her director Sajid Ali and co-star Avinash Tiwary. While they would discuss acting, backstory, and characterizations for the film, she would simply sit there blank-faced, not knowing anything. “I would go home and cry thinking, ‘Am I doing the right thing?’ because I didn’t understand what they were saying or their language,” the actress expressed adding that a part of her wanted to quit.
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Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz and his Republican rival JD Vance debated each other on Wednesday as millions of Americans tuned in to the first, and most-likely, only vice-presidential debate before the country votes on November 5.
Unlike the presidential debate, which saw personal attacks by the contenders, the vice presidential debate was calm, structured and surprisingly civil as Mr Vance and Mr Walz engaged in debating mostly policy issues.
Instead of indulging in slander, both candidates stuck to criticism of the opposing presidential candidate. The debate came as a surprise to most, especially after a months-long ugly and divisive election campaign – that saw personal attacks, derogatory language, racist slurs, inflammatory rhetoric and even assassination attempts.
The US Vice Presidential debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz was calm, structured and surprisingly civil.
Mr Vance and Mr Walz too, have in the past, attacked each other during the election campaign, but for the vice-presidential debate, they struck a respectful tone.
The debate was cordial and focused mostly on policy matters but saw some tense moments towards the end when a question was asked to the Republican candidate on whether he agrees that Donald Trump lost the 2020 US election.
During the debate Mr Vance, who has said that he would not have voted to certify the result of the previous presidential election, evaded the question when asked if he would challenge this year’s vote if Donald Trump loses the election.
To this Mr Walz responded by blaming Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud which had instigated a mob attack on the US Capitol in January, 2021, which was an attempt to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s election win in 2020.
Blaming Mr Vance, Mr Walz said, “He is still saying he (Tump) didn’t lose the election,”. He then directly questioned his rival by asking, “Did he (Trump) lose the 2020 election?” When the Republican candidate again dodged the question and went on to accuse Kamala Harris of pursuing online censorship of opposing views, the debate was at its most intense exchange.
“That’s a damning non-answer,” Mr Walz exclaimed.
Slamming JD Vance, Tim Walz said, “He is still saying he (Tump) didn’t lose the 2020 election”.
The two candidates, with vastly divergent views on every subject, debated each other on a series of subjects – from inflation to immigration, from taxes to the economy, from abortion to gender issues, the West Asia crisis and even climate change.
Picking on each other’s presidential candidate and what they considered their vulnerabilities, both Mr Walz and Mr Vance dodged the verbal punches that came their way and responded with equal measure.
Describing Donald Trump as an “unstable” leader who puts the interest of billionaires before commoners, Mr Walz attacked Donald Trump over his policy on immigration. He slammed the former president for “pressuring the Republicans in Congress” to abandon the bipartisan bill on border security.
“Donald Trump had four years to do this. He promised you, Americans, saying how easy it will be.”
Mr Vance took a jab at the Democrats over the problem of inflation and economy, and repeatedly questioned Kamala Harris on why she has not done enough to address these important issues in the four years that she was vice-president in the Biden Administration.
Vance and Walz also clashed on pressing global issues, especially the crises in Europe and West Asia.
“If Kamala Harris has such great plans for how to address middle-class problems, then she ought to do them now – not when asking for promotion, but in the job the American people gave her 3-1/2 years ago,” Mr Vance said.
The two also clashed on pressing global issues, especially the crises in Europe and West Asia. Mr Walz called Donald Trump “too fickle” and “sympathetic” to strongmen like Putin and Netanyahu and said that Trump cannot be trusted to handle the conflict-prone region. Mr Vance rejected these claims and asserted that when Mr Trump was President, he had made the world “a more secure place” during his term in office.
Donald Trump, who was watching the debate live, was posting messages – mostly personal attacks – on his website ‘Truth Social’ in his trademark style. He attacked the moderators of the debate hosted by US television network CBS. He also called the Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz a man with “low IQ” and even called him “pathetic”.
During the debate, Republican candidate JD Vance, who had once been a strong Trump basher, blamed the media for its reporting on Donald Trump, and tried to set the record straight by saying “I was wrong about Donald Trump”.
He went on to explain that “I was wrong, first of all, because I believe some of the media stories that turned out to be dishonest fabrications of his record. But most importantly, Donald Trump delivered for the American people.”
The Vice Presidential debate was between Democratic candidate Tim Walz, 60, a former high school teacher and current Governor of Minnesota with liberal views, and his Republican rival JD Vance, 40, a former venture capitalist, bestselling author and conservative firebrand US senator from Ohio with some very conservative views on issues like abortion.
Though both candidates portrayed themselves as sons of America’s Midwestern heartland, each had deeply opposing views on nearly every major issue that is gripping a vastly polarised United States of America.
By and large both candidates appeared calm and courteous, demonstrating a ‘Minnesota Nice’ attitude throughout the debate.
While both candidates tried to outperform one-another while dealing the occasional blow to the rival, by and large both men appeared calm and courteous, demonstrating a ‘Minnesota Nice’ attitude throughout the debate, occasionally even thanking each other.
At the end of the debate, reports and polls suggested that neither candidate dealt a ‘knockout punch’ to the other, nor could one outshine the other, resulting in a balanced debate with no clear winner.
Political analysts believe that vice presidential debates generally do not alter the outcome of a presidential election. That said, even a slight shift in public opinion could prove decisive with the race on a razor’s edge five weeks before election day.