Last year, actor Annu Kapoor had commented on Tamannaah Bhatia while complimenting her song Aaj Ki Raat, which had gone viral. He joked about the actress’s claim that children fall asleep while listening to her sing and referred to her body as “dudhiya” (milky). Social media users criticised the comment as inappropriate and vulgar. Now, the actor has reacted to the backlash he received for his remark.
Annu Kapoor on backlash over ‘dudhiya badan’ comment
In a recent interaction with Siddharth Kannan, Annu Kapoor spoke about the thought behind his comment. He said that during a show in the USA, he and his team were discussing song choices for contestants and were looking for something slightly tricky. The song Aaj Ki Raat from Stree 2 was suggested. He watched the video of the song and praised Tamannaah’s performance in it.
NEW DELHI: At least one in four smartphones manufactured in India is now produced by domestic contract manufacturers, signalling a quiet but significant shift in the country’s electronics ecosystem.The rise has been led by Dixon Technologies and Bhagwati Products, with Dixon emerging as the country’s largest device maker, overtaking Samsung Electronics in overall production volumes in 2025.Dixon Technologies led the EMS (electronics manufacturing services) rankings with a 19% share, posting an 89% jump in production. The growth was fuelled by rising orders from brands, such as Motorola, Realme and Xiaomi, reflecting a broader pivot by global firms towards outsourced manufacturing. According to data from Counterpoint, Foxconn followed with a 16% share (up from 12% in 2024), driven largely by export-linked shipments tied to Apple. Samsung, despite its scale, slipped to an 18% share (down from 20% in 2024) with only modest export gains.Bhagwati Products, a joint venture between Micromax Informatics and top Chinese original design manufacturer (ODM) Huaqin Technologies, broke into the top five manufacturers, with a 9% share. Its expansion has been anchored in contract manufacturing mandates from Vivo, Oppo and Realme, a sign that Chinese smartphone brands are deepening local partnerships as they recalibrate supply chains.In 2025, India’s smartphone manufacturing grew 8%. Exports surged 28% during the year, contributing nearly one-third of total output, while domestic sales rose just 1%.Analysts said this shift is being reinforced by policy support, including production-linked incentives and eased foreign investment rules. Abdul Rahman Khan, research analyst, Counterpoint Research told TOI that Oppo and Vivo’s outsourcing push has been a key inflection point. Both Vivo and Oppo began scaling outsourcing meaningfully around 2024, but volumes ramped up once it did, flowing to domestic manufacturers like Bhagwati Products. In case of Bhagwati Products, its partnership with Huaqin, which has an established supply chain presence and relations in the industry, has also worked, Khan said. Amid the FDI scrutiny by Indian authorities, Chinese companies are increasingly tying up with local players to set up joint ventures for manufacturing in India.“The PLI cycle nearing its end is also triggering a redistribution of volumes,” he said. “We are seeing a share of that shift towards players like Dixon Technologies as brands recalibrate cost and partnership strategies.”Exports are expected to remain the primary growth engine in 2026, with smartphones continuing to anchor India’s electronics push. But risks remain, warn analysts. “Near-term headwinds, such as disruptions due to the US-Iran war could impact logistics, while sustained increases in memory prices may create demand-side pressures over the longer term,” said Tarun Pathak, research director, Counterpoint Research.
Recently, Prabhas and Kajal Aggarwal’s 2010 hit rom-com Darling was re-released in theatres during a lull in Telugu releases. A video claimed to have been taken at a Hyderabad theatre shows a Prabhas fan getting beaten up after the show. Accounts on the internet vary about what actually happened.
A fan was beaten up badly during the re-release of Darling.
Prabhas fan beaten up at Darling re-release
Videos on the internet show a man dressed in a white shirt and jeans getting beaten up by men and women wearing blue uniforms, presumably the theatre management. The man fights back and even kicks at someone as he’s yelled at and beaten. A woman in a blue uniform can be seen yelling at him and asking him to leave, while another man in blue hits him with a stick.
Another video of the altercation shows that the woman even removed her slippers to hit the man, and the other men in blue uniforms kept punching him. Online accounts of what happened varied from the audience member asking the theatre to replay songs from the film and getting allegedly beaten up for it, to him allegedly misbehaving with a female staff member at the theatre and getting beaten up for it. Some even claimed he was intoxicated. The theatre hasn’t issued a statement about the altercation at the time of writing.
However, an X (formerly Twitter) account posted a video taken from another angle and claimed that the man getting beaten up was his friend. They claimed, “Ikada women bag lagindhi so daniki godava chesthe management motham ochi godava karraltho kottaru but baitaki anti fans misbehaving of women and spread chestunaru please share and repost this video atanu na Friend eh he’s not that kind of man of misbehaving with women. (The woman snatched his bag, and he protested, so the whole management created a fuss and beat him up. Rumours are being spread that he misbehaved with women, my friend isn’t that kind of man.)”
Prabhas’ recent work
After the 2023 films Adipurush and Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire, Prabhas starred in the 2024 sci-fi film Kalki 2898 AD. The film collected over ₹1000 crore worldwide and also starred Deepika Padukone, Amitabh Bachchan and Kamal Haasan. In 2025, he played a cameo in Kannappa and provided voice-over for Mirai. This year, he starred in the horror comedy The Raja Saab, which collected over ₹200 crore
Prabhas has numerous films lined up, including the sequel to Kalki 2898 AD, which is rumoured to see Sai Pallavi replace Deepika. He also has Fauzi with Hanu Raghavapudi and Spirit with Sandeep Reddy Vanga lined up.
Leading Yale astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan proved that black holes can form from unstable gas. Now she is observing the invisible universe using new technologies.
Priyamvada Natarajan is a professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University. (HT picture)
In popular fiction and science fiction, black holes are places of intense gravity, sort of like cosmic vacuum cleaners that suck up everything around us. They form when stars explode, becoming supernovae and leaving deep holes in the structure of the universe. These are hard to understand, even for Priyamvada Natarajan, a professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University, who has studied the phenomenon for decades.
In 2006, Natarajan proposed a completely different idea of how black holes formed in the early universe. Not from the explosion of a star, but from the direct collapse of gas. He theorized that gas in the early universe became unstable and funneled into the center very rapidly, like pulling a plug in a bathtub. This bathtub action instantly created supermassive black holes, each 10,000 times the mass of the Sun. In late 2023, two space telescopes proved all of his predictions and his theory correct. Today, we know about direct collapse black holes and an ancient galaxy UHZ1 thanks to this.
We caught up with him at the IndiaSpora 2026 conference in Bengaluru to understand his fascination with invisible space, the competition for space telescopes and how artificial intelligence is reshaping his work as an astrophysicist. Edited excerpts:
Until now we have assumed that stars explode, become supernovae and then leave behind black holes many times the mass of the Sun. Why were you looking for another way for black holes to form in the universe?
We need to think in a different way about how black holes form than when stars explode because we were seeing black holes millions of times the size of the Sun in the early universe and there was no explanation for it.
My calculations show that in the early universe, massive black holes may have formed through bathtub action where the gas becomes unstable and stars become trapped at the center very rapidly. Thanks to sophisticated computers, we were able to make a solid prediction in 2017, theorizing what observations of the real universe would look like if such a black hole existed.
Your prediction was made based on data that could be observed by the largest telescopes at the time available to you. James Webb, 1.5 million kilometers away in space, observes the infrared spectrum to look at the early universe. and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which is in low Earth orbit and observes X-ray emissions. Why did you need these two observations to prove your prediction?
When the gas heats up and glows around the black hole’s event horizon, it can be seen in X-rays or in the optical or ultraviolet. Seeing X-ray emission from the center of a galaxy is often a very good indication that you have a black hole there.
However, much of what was emitted in the optical early in the universe will be visible to us today in the mid-infrared range because the wavelengths of light will have spread as our universe expands. James Webb has cameras that detect infrared radiation. Our prediction was that for these black holes that formed in the early universe, you should see them not only in X-rays, but also in infrared radiation. So to prove our theory that black holes can be created by this method, the same black hole needed to be observed simultaneously by Chandra X and James Webb.
We predicted six different unique properties, spectrum, amount of energy released, even a shape. Only if all six were satisfied with an object, you can clearly say that there is strong evidence that this was a new way in which black holes were created.
A total of four space telescopes are available to humanity. How did you convince two of them to look in the same direction of the universe to prove your prediction of black hole formation?
As scientists, you compete with each other for data allocations from these telescopes. You submit your proposal and it is evaluated anonymously by peers. The most interesting idea wins. For our prediction, we needed to observe James Webb in a single direction for several hours, but with Chandra, we needed several days of observations because it is capturing faint and distant objects. When the black hole we predicted was found, Chandra had been recording the same part of the sky for 24 days.
You thought about this possible early universe black hole idea 20 years ago. All six predictions were proven in November 2023 by data from both James Webb and Charles. How did you feel about this recognition?
It was incredible. My lab partner sent me the real universe data but joked that it was just one of the models we developed. I actually got in on the joke because the data was very similar to what one of the models we predicted predicted. This rare moment when everything falls into place is almost magical. I think I cried, because it’s every scientist’s dream to have something they’ve predicted mathematically be proven with real data. And this should happen during his lifetime.
Is the differently formed black hole you discovered named after you?
(laughs) It’s called UHZ1 but it will be on my inscription.
What surprised you the most after this?
The kind of recognition I received for the work was completely unexpected. Awards within astrophysics and fellowships were expected but there was a lot of media attention. I was on the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world, I thought this email was spam. But I was already busy publishing more papers, getting my work reviewed by peers.
You work on the invisible universe, dark matter, dark energy and black holes. One cannot see or image these entities. What are attractions and how can you guess if they exist?
Light is our cosmic messenger, but dark matter or dark energy does not interact with light at all. Their visible absence means that they are physically present. I find them intellectually very fascinating because you have to see these things indirectly to make inferences about them, to understand their nature. It’s like detective work.
Dark matter, which I am currently studying, deflects light. Light rays travel across the fabric of our universe, bouncing up and down matter and dark matter creating cracks or holes in this fabric. We physicists record these signatures of deflected light to understand dark matter. In the case of a black hole, only light beyond the event horizon is absorbed. Anywhere outside the event horizon, you can receive signals and radiation. For example, when gas is drawn into a black hole, it heats up before it reaches the event horizon. It shines. This is how we observe, measure, and map black holes to study them.
How has astrophysics over the past two decades enhanced our understanding of the black holes at the centers of galaxies?
Because black holes can affect the structure of the universe, most black holes, especially supermassive black holes, which are a million times the mass of the Sun, are found at the centers of most, if not all, galaxies. The past two decades have given us a new understanding of how black holes play a very important role in shaping the galaxies in which they are located. Because black holes heat the gas before they cross the event horizon. This is interesting because the gas has to cool, condense, and become a substance. In this way, a black hole acts as a switch to turn the formation of stars on and off. They control visible matter in the galaxy, from stars to planets.
What are you working on now?
I am exploring how dark matter interacts with black holes as they both appear to exist in the centers of galaxies. Another direction I am exploring is the meaning of dark energy, which is not yet understood but is responsible for the rapid expansion of our universe. Both of these are open frontier questions.
How have evolving technologies like telescopes and now AI, helped astrophysics?
New developments in charge-coupled instruments that use highly sensitive silicon chip detectors to capture light provide us with more detailed images of faint, distant astronomical objects. In space telescopes, weight matters, so it is important to make imaginative components lighter and more compact. Recently, GPUs have accelerated our computing capabilities. Many simulations took a year to run on a supercomputer. Now we can simulate thousands of possible scenarios simultaneously.
You think AI could fundamentally change the nature of search? Why?
The big LLM models have digested everything that is published in our field, right? Therefore they are equipped with the expertise of peer-reviewed published material. Can an AI agent consider a new idea more precisely than a group of scientists? Can it identify our blind spots? Could it be possible to become a peer reviewer in the future? Can this really work in the laboratory, in the mess of science? Can an AI really write a scientific paper from start to finish, generate ideas, develop them, write them in a coherent manner? We are certainly in a time of exciting intellectual upheaval. We do not fully understand how AI will change all dimensions of our reality.
‘Gen V’, the spin-off series of ‘The Boys’, has officially been cancelled and will not return for a third season.Confirming the development, executive producers Eric Kripke and Evan Goldberg said in a joint statement to Variety, “While we wish we could keep the party going another season at Godolkin, we’re committed to continuing the ‘Gen V’ characters’ stories in ‘The Boys’ Season 5 and other VCU projects on the horizon. You’ll see them again.”Interestingly, with ‘The Boys’ ending its five-season run on May 20, the franchise is expected to continue with the new spinoff serie s ‘Vought Rising’, which is set to debut in 2027. In addition, ‘The Boys: Mexico’ remains in active development.‘Gen V’ Season 1 aired from September 29 to November 3, 2023 and its second season aired between September 2025 to October 2025. As per the report, several characters from ‘Gen V’ are expected to appear in the upcoming fifth and final season of ‘The Boys’.In terms of viewership, the teen superhero series opened in its second season to a strong 424 million minutes viewed in September, securing the No. 8 spot on the Nielsen streaming Top 10 originals chart. However, the show struggled to maintain its ranking.Set at the fictional Godolkin University, the series explored the lives of young superheroes navigating power, trauma, and conflict in a world increasingly shaped by tensions between humans and superpowered individuals. Season 2 introduced a new narrative, including a mysterious programme tied to the institution’s origins and the arrival of a new dean, played by Hamish Linklater.The show featured an ensemble cast including Jaz Sinclair, Chance Perdomo, Lizze Broadway, Maddie Phillips, London Thor, Derek Luh, Asa Germann and Sean Patrick Thomas.
Alia Bhatt made her big Bollywood debut with Karan Johar’s Student of the Year in 2012. Ever since, the actress has witnessed an impressive career graph. She has also increased her fan base, with people who love her and adore her loyally. During a recent interview, Alia’s former bodyguard, Zeeshan Qureshi, recently opened up about a past incident that left the actress ‘scared’ and ‘uncomfortable’.
Alia Bhatt was mobbed at the airport
Zeeshan reportedly worked with Alia when she was shooting for SOTY and for three to four years around the same time. Zeeshan recalled when he was travelling with Alia to a foreign location, and during one of their travels, the actress was mobbed by the airport staff and customs officers.
For the quarter ended March 31, 2026, Infosys posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 8,501 crore, up 21 per cent from Rs 7,033 crore.
Infosys share price today: The stock price of India’s second largest IT services firm fell sharply on Friday despite the company’s quarterly results beating market expectations. Infosys came under significant pressure, falling as much as 3.72 per cent to an intraday low of Rs 1,194.50 on the NSE. Its American depositary receipts also weakened, closing 4 per cent lower.For the quarter ended March 31, 2026, Infosys posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 8,501 crore, up 21 per cent from Rs 7,033 crore recorded in the same period a year earlier.Revenue from operations during the fourth quarter rose to Rs 46,402 crore, marking a 13.4 per cent increase from Rs 40,925 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous financial year.On a sequential basis, profit after tax climbed 28 per cent from Rs 6,654 crore in Q3 FY26. Revenue also registered a quarter-on-quarter increase of 2 per cent from Rs 45,479 crore in the October-December period.Operating margin for the quarter stood at 21 per cent. While this remained unchanged from a year ago, it improved by 260 basis points compared with the previous quarter.For FY27, the company has projected constant-currency revenue growth in the range of 1.5 per cent to 3.5 per cent, while retaining its operating margin guidance at 20 per cent to 22 per cent.
Infosys stock price outlook: What brokerages are saying
Brokerage views on Infosys remain mixed, with analysts balancing near-term challenges against the company’s long-term positioning. They have expressed a measured outlook on Infosys. Jefferies has reiterated its Hold rating on the stock and lowered its target price to Rs 1,235, suggesting limited upside or downside from current levels, according to an ET report.According to the brokerage, Infosys’ March-quarter performance was largely in line with expectations. However, its FY27 revenue growth guidance of 1.5 per cent to 3.5 per cent fell short of market hopes.Jefferies also highlighted a 3 per cent sequential decline in headcount and a 19 per cent year-on-year drop in net new deal wins as areas of concern.The brokerage noted that the lower end of the guidance range reflects a more challenging macroeconomic backdrop and persistent geopolitical uncertainties, while the upper end assumes some improvement in conditions.Net new deal wins for the fourth quarter came in at $1.3 billion, down 19 per cent from a year earlier. Jefferies described this as a soft outcome, adding that the decline, coupled with the sharp reduction in workforce during the quarter, is consistent with the company’s cautious near-term growth outlook.Morgan Stanley has retained its Equal-weight recommendation on the stock, while reducing its target price to Rs 1,380 from Rs 1,760 earlier. This still implies an upside of about 11 per cent from current levels. The brokerage pointed to a weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter performance across several key parameters, along with a subdued revenue outlook.According to Morgan Stanley, Infosys’ FY27 constant-currency revenue growth guidance of 1.5 per cent to 3.5 per cent suggests little scope for a meaningful pickup in growth. Organic growth is expected to be around 2.5 per cent, broadly in line with industry peers.The brokerage also noted that the ramp-down of a major European client is likely to weigh on near-term growth. In addition, gains in productivity driven by artificial intelligence, coupled with pricing pressure, are affecting the competitiveness of the company’s core business.While Morgan Stanley has lowered its estimates, it believes earnings per share could receive some support from favourable currency movements. It also observed that the stock’s valuation has moderated and is now closer to peer levels, which could help limit downside risk. At present, the stock is trading at around 15.8 times earnings.Motilal Oswal Financial Services, on the other hand, has reiterated its Buy rating on Infosys, keeping its target price unchanged at Rs 1,450. This implies a potential upside of roughly 17 per cent.The brokerage said Infosys’ FY27 revenue growth guidance of 1.5 per cent to 3.5 per cent in constant currency—or 1.25 per cent to 3.25 per cent on an organic basis—is below its expectations at the upper end. It believes this points to increasing pressure on the company’s existing business portfolio.Motilal Oswal highlighted that the growing adoption of artificial intelligence is compressing the core business, as efficiency gains are increasingly being passed on to clients. It added that this trend is being amplified by intense competition and pricing pressure in an environment of weak demand.The brokerage expects this deflationary impact to continue. For FY27, it has built in organic growth at the midpoint of management’s guidance, around 2.5 per cent, indicating a moderation from FY26 constant-currency growth of 3.1 per cent.Meanwhile, HDFC Securities has also maintained its Buy recommendation on the stock, with an unchanged target price of Rs 1,550.HDFC Securities said fourth-quarter revenue was affected by seasonal weakness and slower decision-making by clients. It also noted that Infosys’ FY27 revenue growth guidance fell short of expectations, underscoring persistent macroeconomic uncertainty.According to the brokerage, demand conditions remain soft, with clients continuing to prioritise cost optimisation over large-scale transformation projects.In view of the slower growth outlook, HDFC Securities has reduced its earnings estimates by around 2 per cent to 3 per cent. It currently values the stock at 18 times its estimated earnings per share for March 2028.(Disclaimer: Recommendations and views on the stock market, other asset classes or personal finance management tips given by experts are their own. These opinions do not represent the views of The Times of India)
Actor Alia Bhatt is already picturing what the future could hold for her three-year-old daughter Raha Kapoor and it’s not necessarily Bollywood. In a recent interview, Alia confessed that she wants Raha to explore the world of sports. Why? Here’s the reason behind it.
Alia Bhatt dated Ranbir Kapoor for several years and got married in April 2022.
Alia gets candid about Raha
In a recent interview with Femina, Alia opened up about her daughter Raha and the kind of career path she imagines for her.
When asked about the women who have helped her evolve, Alia said, “I think, starting with my family… My mother – the strongest, most impactful influence growing up, watching her navigate through raising me and my sister, and still keeping the fire of wanting to be an actor alive in herself, whether she did it through theatre or through television. Then my sister – the way she’s been so outspoken about her journey with mental health and depression. And, then, even the people that I deal with on my team, which is made up of a bunch of wonderful women. They all add so many different layers of support, opinion, perspective, and just energy to my life.”
“I love when everything feels like a team effort. I think, if I were an athlete, I would definitely play a team sport! It’s something I think about sometimes. Even for my daughter. I wish for her to actually be an athlete… She’s so competitive and she’s so athletic. She’s only three, but she really jumps around like a bee in a bonnet. I find there is true pleasure in team effort,” she added.
Speaking about how motherhood has reshaped her equation with work, Alia asserted that ambition has nothing to do with motherhood. She added that while becoming a parent does shift certain priorities, it also brings a stronger focus on quality over quantity, both in life and career, stressing that that’s what happened with her.
Alia dated Ranbir Kapoor for several years and got married in April 2022. Their love story blossomed on the sets of Brahmāstra, which was in production for seven years. Raha, their first child, was born in November 2022.
Alia Bhatt’s upcoming projects
Alia will soon be seen in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Love and War. Apart from Alia, the film stars Ranbir Kapoor and Vicky Kaushal. It marks Alia’s second collaboration with Bhansali after 2022’s Gangubai Kathiawadi, for which she won a National Award for Best Actress.
There has been a lot of confusion and speculation about the release date of the Sanjay Leela Bhansali film, Love & War. The film, which stars Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, and Vicky Kaushal, was officially announced in January 2024 and was originally slated for a 2025 release. Love & War will now release in theatres on January 21, 2027, arriving a few days ahead of the Republic Day window.
She also has spy thriller Alpha in the pipeline. The film is slated for release on July 10. Alpha was originally slated for release in Christmas 2025, but was moved to 17 April 2026.
