Author: Siddhbhoomi Team

45-year-old actor Anita Hassanandani isn’t just maintaining her fitness; she’s redefining it. A March 4 Instagram glimpse into her gym sessions reveals a sophisticated mix of heavy lifting and functional mobility that challenges the standard celebrity workout. Also read | Anita Raj at 63 proves age is just a number when it comes to fitness: Watch how veteran actor keeps her body tonedAnita Hassanandani’s focus is functional strength and joint health. (Instagram/ Anita Hassanandani)Anita Hassanandani’s strategy is clear: building a reserve of strength and joint health to handle the physical demands of motherhood. By focusing on functional strength rather than…

New Delhi: Exposure to air pollution could be associated with an increased migraine activity, according to a study.Both a short-term and cumulative exposure to air pollution were tied to increased migraine activity, as were climate factors such as heat and humidity, findings published in the journal Neurology suggest.”These results help us to better understand how and when migraine attacks occur,” author Ido Peles, of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be’er Sheva, Israel, said.”They suggest that for people who have a susceptibility to migraine to begin with, environmental factors may play two roles: intermediate-term factors such as heat and humidity…

Ranchi: Small hospitals, nursing homes and clinics with up to 50 beds are likely to get relief under the Jharkhand Clinical Establishment Act (CEA), an official said on Thursday.A delegation of the state unit of the Indian Medical Association met additional chief secretary (Health) Ajoy Kumar Singh and requested exemption for hospitals with up to 50 beds from the purview of the Act.The delegates said hospitals currently have to comply with 27 requirements, including obtaining NOC from the pollution control board and fire department, approval of building maps and registration from the civil surgeon.Singh said, “A separate set of rules…

Currently, I am: Rehearsing for a new role.Adah Sharma says that the one thing she would never buy is fake followers.High point in life: Casually changing box-office history, as The Kerala Story earned ₹300 crore.Low point in life: The day I tried being normal for five minutes. It was exhausting. Never again.On my playlist: Mohni, by Deepak Sahu and Pooja Sharma; Tut Jai Palang Raja Ji, by Khesari Lal Yadav; Odisha Chhua, by Mantu Chhuria.One thing I would never buy: Fake followers.Today I’m craving: Lucknow’s mattar chaat.Last thing I ordered online: A posture correcting belt, and socks that have avocados wearing sunglasses…

Louvre jewels. Four minutes. Four thieves. Eight pieces of 19th-century jewellery worth $102 million, gone. The October 2025 heist was the Paris museum’s first theft in 27 years. Masked bandits made off with an emerald and diamond necklace-earrings set gifted by Napoleon I to Empress Marie-Louise and other objets d’art from the French royal family. The museum’s video surveillance system had the password “Louvre”. Les amateurs!Among the things stolen in the 2025 Louvre heist: An emerald set gifted by Napoleon I to Empress Marie-Louise. (BRITANNICA)About 345 hand-drawn maps are missing from the Mumbai’s Asiatic Society vaults. (BOMBAY WIKI)Asiatic Society maps.…

You’ve seen the Reels spoofing how Hollywood montages present the Wife Who Will Die In The First Half? All tousled hair, innocent devotion, wholesome sexiness? Nitesh Mohanty’s self-published 2020 photobook Nowhere / Now Here is the opposite of that. It’s a chronicle of his time as caregiver to his wife, Diya, through her battle with a brain tumour. But, like all good art, it is so much more.Nitesh Mohanty’s 2020 photobook Nowhere / Now Here is a chronicle of his time as caregiver to his late wife, Diya.It takes immense courage to display one’s vulnerability. Mohanty took thousands of images…

In India, nosy questions often pass for “small talk”. From marriage to money, here are topics that should be off-limits

It started this way. I went to lunch at Manish Mehrotra’s Nisaba. I had not been back since it opened officially, though I had gone for the previews and had confidently predicted that it would become Delhi’s hottest restaurant. A short time later, Nisaba opened to the public and duly became the city’s hottest restaurant and hardest reservation. I was relieved to have been vindicated and happy for Manish. But I did not go back.Butter chicken with onion rings at Nisaba, Delhi’s hottest new restaurant.Last week, my wife (who had been back with friends) told me that I did not…

Unsolicited rock photosFrom keyboard click-clackers to over-hyped restaurants, it’s the small things that set people off. (DESIGNED BY LEELA; IMAGES RECREATED USING CHATGPT)“My DMs are full of pictures of random rocks and pebbles people have found and want me to identify. Once, someone sent me a picture of a bone, and thought they’d found a fossil. I had to explain that a fossil is actual stone. It’s bad enough that as a geoscience communicator, people ask, ‘Oh, you studied geography?’ They’re two separate things, people!” Kanchi Dave, 30, founder of The Neev ProjectKanchi Dave gets mad when people send her pictures of…

April 17 marks the birthday of Victoria Beckham, and to commemorate the occasion, today’s quote of the day revisits a powerful reflection by the fashion designer, businesswoman, and former member of the iconic 90’s pop group Spice Girls. Over the years, Beckham has successfully transitioned from global pop stardom to building a respected name in the fashion industry – carving out a space for herself as a designer and entrepreneur.April 17 marks Victoria Beckham’s birthday! (AFP)Also Read | Quote of the day by Jaya Bachchan: ‘When I plan, things go wrong. When I do things without planning, it comes from…’She…