The country’s top squash player, Saurav Ghosal, wants to “break into the top 20 in the world rankings” by the end of this year.

Filmmaker Subhash Ghai is on a frantic search for the leading lady of his next film Kaanchi. The man, who is touted as the original showman of Bollywood, is known to have created stars like Madhuri Dixit and Sridevi at a time when nobody in the industry recognised them.

Striker Karan Yadav will lead the Delhi state boys U-13 team to the ongoing AIFF Football Festival at Kalyani in West Bengal.

The stage is set for elections in the All India Football Federation with its executive committee on Tuesday clearing the decks for next month’s annual general meeting at Football House in the capital.

Scott Flemming, the new head coach of the Indian senior men’s national basketball team, was excited and sees his role as a chance to develop the sport at the grassroots level in the country.

When Ajay Devgn stood high on the two beautiful horses that were galloping against the wind in the movie Son of Sardaar, the hero’s antic seemed to have redefined Indian machismo.

In its 20th year, the International Students Cultural Festival organised by The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) — to commemorate the birth anniversary of its founder, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad — had its own spark this year, as it was the first time that the event coincided with Diwali.

We know that Dimple Kapadia shares an incredibly close bond with daughters Twinkle and Rinke Khanna. But we got a sense of just how close that bond is when we spotted Twinkle at the premiere of Jab Tak Hai Jaan — wearing the exact same outfit mommy dearest wore to the recent party Nita and Mukesh Ambani hosted at their residence Antilla, along with the Bachchan family, in honour of couturiers Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla.

The outfit in question is a cream Abu-Sandeep kameez, with shimmery stripes running through it. And while its voluminous shape is a perfect fit for Dimple’s fuller figure, for Twinkle, it was great camouflage for her post-pregnancy bump.

Once upon a time, grandmoms and granddads loved narrating stories to children. “But that was once upon a time. Now, kids don’t want to listen to stories. All they want is a new gadget to keep them occupied,” says Sanjoy K. Ray, managing director, Teamwork Productions, who organised the “Kahaani Festival” at Pathways School, Noida recently.