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By Express News Service Rishab Shetty’s Kantara, which has created waves since the time of its release, continues to make the right kind of noise. The mystery thriller, which holds several records at the worldwide…

Express News Service It was a starry night at the 22nd Indian Television Academy (ITA) Awards held in Mumbai on December 11. The stage was set, in a shimmering golden hue, and if one were sitting in the audience, a…

With every project, it is not just the audiences but actor Pratik Gandhi himself too expects a lot from himself. The actor of Scam 1992 -fame was last seen in the anthology Modern Love: Mumbai (MLM) and got a positive response for his…

She recalled judging a contest in which the contestants had to finish this sentence about a fabric brightener: “I like LaFrance Bluing Flakes because. …” The winner wrote, “I washed a pair of curtains two weeks apart, and they came out the…

TOKYO — Laurel Hubbard fulfilled a lifelong dream by taking part in the Olympic weight lifting competition. She also found the whole experience excruciating, an ordeal that the 43-year-old Hubbard said Tuesday she was glad was over.Hubbard…

TOKYO — Reporters from around the world showed up hours early, waiting in line for a chance to interview Laurel Hubbard. Now, as she made her way into the mixed zone, the room where athletes answer questions after competition, the assembled…

An unsafe media climate for trans athletes like Olympic weightlifter Laurel Hubbard puts the discussion of trans inclusion in sport at risk of being duhumanising and based on ill-informed fears, says an expert in transgender health.…

TOKYO: Pioneering New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard created history in Tokyo Monday when she became the first openly transgender woman to compete at the Olympic Games. Hubbard is contesting the +87kg category in a groundbreaking move…

Hubbard’s presence pushed the weight lifting competition, which often gets far less attention than gymnastics, swimming, track and field and other Olympic sports, onto center stage. Yet Hubbard has little beyond a statement weeks ago after…

At 43, New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is nearly twice the average age of her Tokyo 2020 competitors. Having shifted 285 kg in qualifying, she is also one of the strongest in the field. Tonight she will become the first…