The newest song titled Ankhiyaan Gulaab from Shahid Kapoor and Kriti Sanon starrer Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya is out now.

Check out the video here:
The two-minute and thirty-five seconds-long video showcases Kriti Sanon and Shahid Kapoor dancing in a beach party. It also features Shahid and Kriti’s amazing chemistry.

Akhiyaan Gulaab is produced, penned and performed by Mitraz.

Kriti Sanon and Shahid Kapoor recently launched this song in Jaipur, Rajasthan.

Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya is a one-of-a-kind love story between a human and a robot. The film is directed by Amit Joshi and Aradhana Sah. In addition to Shahid Kapoor and Kriti Sanon, the movie also includes Dharmendra and Dimple Kapadia, among others. The film is scheduled for release in theatres on February 9, 2024.

See Also: Teri Baaton Main Aisa Uljha Jiya: Shahid Kapoor and Kriti Sanon to launch Akhiyaan Gulaab in Jaipur 

A Russian IL-76, a heavy-lift military transport aircraft crashed with 65 Ukrainian Prisoners of Wars (POWs) in the Belgorod region of Russia, which borders the region. The POWs were being transported for an exchange in swap. 

Video | Russian Military Plane Carrying 65 Ukrainian Prisoners Of War Crashes

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A video of the crash, shot from a distance, showed the aircraft rapidly losing altitude and heading straight toward the ground, the IL-76 was out of the pilot’s control and crashed near a residential area. The aircraft crashed on its right wing and was up in flames.

“At around 11 am Moscow time (0800 GMT), an IL-76 aircraft crashed in the Belgorod region during a routine flight,” AFP reported quoting Moscow’s defence ministry as saying.

“On board were 65 captured Ukrainian army servicemen being transported to the Belgorod region for exchange, six crew members and three escorts,” it said.

Meanwhile, Russia has claimed that the plane was carrying POWs but AFP, quoting local media in Ukraine, reported that its defence forces downed the aircraft as it was carrying missiles for the S-300 surface-air defence system and not POWs. Russia’s parliament speaker, Vyacheslav Volodin, has accused Kyiv of shooting down the plane carrying Prisoners of War,

“They shot their own soldiers in the air. Their own,” Volodin told lawmakers in a plenary session. “Our pilots, who were carrying out a humanitarian mission, were shot down.”

The crash occurred in the Korochansky district, northeast of the region’s capital, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram.

“Now an investigation team and emergency services are working on the site. I have changed my working schedule and travelled to the district,” Gladkov said.

The Russian IL-76 is designed to airlift troops, cargo and military equipment like tanks, howitzers, and ammunition. The aircraft was manufactured by Ilyushin and was inducted into service in the 1970s when the USSR existed. The aircraft was designed to replace the An-12 (Antonov 12). The aircraft has a civil and military variant and is operated by the Indian Air Force as well.

The IL-76 fleet in the Indian Air Force is limited and ageing and the IAF operates new platforms like the C-17 Globemaster III, and C-130J Hercules that are US-based. 

Russia’s Ill-Fated Invasion

The Russia-Ukraine war will complete its two years next month. The Russian forces have failed to make considerable gains in Ukraine despite boasting a strong, formidable military which is capable of defeating any force. 

The aircraft crashed in Russian airspace by Ukrainian forces as claimed by their parliament speaker. In two years, Moscow has failed to establish air superiority even with its advanced 4.5 and 5th generation aircraft and missile defence systems. 

The war in Ukraine has dented Russia’s confidence in its conventional forces and increased the importance to Moscow of non-strategic nuclear weapons (NSNWs) as a means of deterring and defeating NATO in a potential future conflict, a leading Western think-tank said.

NSNWs include all nuclear weapons with a range of up to 5,500 km (3,400 miles), starting with tactical arms designed for use on the battlefield – as opposed to longer-range strategic nuclear weapons that Russia or the US could use to strike each other’s homeland.

Monday’s report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) raised the question of whether Russia might be emboldened to fire an NSNW in the belief that the West lacks the resolve to deliver a nuclear response.

The ill-fated invasion of Ukraine by Russia on February 24, 2022, is a lesson for militaries across the world regarding what not to do in a conventional armed conflict, which includes poor training, mismanagement in maintaining supply lines, no centre of gravity (CoG) in the war with multiple objectives and failure to anticipate continuous supply of military aid to Ukraine from US-led NATO countries.

Moscow and Kyiv have also recently accused each other of a sharp escalation in attacks on civilian areas over the past two months. Russian strikes wounded nine people in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv, the region’s governor said Wednesday.

Regional governor Oleg Sinegubov said Moscow’s forces had fired S-300 surface-to-air missiles at the city, which lies next to Ukraine’s border with Russia. 

Political rhetoric over the decision to award ex-Bihar Chief Minister and OBC leader Karpoori Thakur a posthumous Bharat Ratna – less than three months before the general election – ramped up Wednesday with Nitish Kumar, the current Chief Minister, taking a jab at the ruling BJP.

Standing beside Mr Thakur’s son – Ram Nath, a Rajya Sabha MP from his Janata Dal (United) – Nitish Kumar stressed the JDU “been demanding the Bharat Ratna” since Karpoori Thakur’s death in 1988″.

“Karpoori Thakur worked for the upliftment of all sections of society… the poor, the backward, and the most backward. He even banned liquor. We have been praising his work (and) started this campaign since his death,” Mr Kumar told reporters, “We have been demanding Bharat Ratna since the beginning.”

READ | Ex-Bihar Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur Gets Posthumous Bharat Ratna

“He (Karpoori Thakur) never made his son his successor… but my brother (referring to Ram Nath Thakur) was a minister (from 2005 to 2010, in the second Nitish Kumar ministry) and is now in the Rajya Sabha.”

#WATCH | On Karpoori Thakur being awarded the Bharat Ratna, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar says, “We had been demanding (for Bharat Ratna) continuously. They finally made the decision last night. So, I would like to thank them (Government), it is a matter of joy. He worked a lot for the… pic.twitter.com/yjvqgIUJa7

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The Bihar Chief Minister also took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, declaring he expected him to “claim full credit” for conferring the award on Karpoori Thakur. “I was told by Ram Nath Thakur… the Prime Minister had called him up after the announcement. The PM has not called me so far…”

“It is possible that he may claim full credit for the move,” he said, after an event this morning to honour Karpoori Thakur on his birth anniversary.

I am delighted that the Government of India has decided to confer the Bharat Ratna on the beacon of social justice, the great Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur Ji and that too at a time when we are marking his birth centenary. This prestigious recognition is a testament to his enduring… pic.twitter.com/9fSJrZJPSP

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) January 23, 2024

Nitish Kumar’s comments have been seen as a fresh chapter in a race by Bihar politicians to claim credit for the award to Mr Thakur, with the BJP accusing the opposition of trying to profit from his legacy.

READ | On Bharat Ratna For Karpoori Thakur, Bihar Leaders’ Credit Contest

RJD patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav, also a former protege of Karpoori Thakur and ex-Chief Minister, had said the man remembered even today as ‘Jannayak’, ought to have received the award a long time ago.

Mr Thakur’s son was earlier also part of the Bihar cabinet when Lalu Yadav was Chief Minister.

In his swipe at the BJP, Lalu Yadav pointed out the recognition for Karpoori Thakur came not only just before the Lok Sabha poll but also on the heels of a controversial statewide caste-survey, which said over 60 per cent of the state’s 13.1 crore people are from backward or extremely backward classes.

“… the centre  (only) woke up when present Bihar government conducted caste census and increased scope of reservation for benefit of Bahujans,” Lalu Yadav, whose RJD is allied with the JDU, said on X.

Lalu Yadav’s son, Tejashwi Yadav, who is the Deputy Chief Minister, also hit out at the BJP-led centre.

The Congress has also chipped in, with party MP Rahul Gandhi acknowledging the “welcome” award but also insisting that a “true tribute” to Karpoori Thakur, and his efforts to improve the condition of marginalised communities, would be for the BJP to order a national caste census.

READ | “Politics Of Symbolism”: Rahul Gandhi On Karpoori Thakur’s Bharat Ratna

“The country now needs ‘real justice’ not ‘politics of symbolism’,” he said.

The BJP has hit back via Union Minister Giriraj Singh, who said, “Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav played in the lap of Congress for years. Why did they not get this done?”

Ravi Shankar Prasad, another BJP leader from Bihar, criticised “previous governments” of the state. “Some thought only about their own families. The Modi government thinks about the country. Someone might be our opponent… but if he has done something for the country, he will be honoured,” he said.

Karpoori Thakur, born on January 24, 1924, and who died on February 17, 1988, was the first non-Congress socialist leader to become Chief Minister of Bihar, a post he held twice in the 1970s.

READ | Karpoori Thakur Was Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad Yadav’s Mentor

He is credited with beginning Bihar’s alcohol prohibition policy, back in 1970. He was inspired by heavyweights like Ram Manohar Lohia who spearheaded the socialist movement in post-Independent India, and, in turn inspired current leaders like Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav.

With input from agencies

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