Dubrovnik Airport just crushed it with over three million travelers passing through the terminal between January and November, which marks a bump of about four and a half percent from what they pulled last year. The Croatian hub is projecting around 6.3 million euros in operating profit, and it were the only spot in the country running direct flights to America with daily service to New York.
The place added five fresh routes this year, and cargo traffic absolutely exploded with growth of over 1000 percent. They are rolling out fancy new security gear and modern check-in systems that should make getting through the airport way less painful.
Winter flights are staying pretty solid with year-round connections to Rome, Frankfurt, Vienna...
Priyanka Chopra Jonas posted a bunch of random life moments on Instagram after finally getting some downtime at home with Nick Jonas and their daughter Malti Marie. The actress shared clips of romantic stuff with her husband, like window views and him kissing her eyes during flights, plus scenes from what looked like a fancy dinner setup with a fireplace.
The photo dump had videos of the Jonas Brothers goofing around at some event and Malti playing with toys before raiding her mom's makeup stash. The kid also showed up at her dad's concert and apparently had a blast visiting Priyanka on the Varanasi movie set in Hyderabad, where she hung out with Mahesh Babu's daughter Sitara and checked out a baby cow at director SS Rajamouli's farm.
Some business folks and diplomats got together in Chicago to talk about where America and India are headed, and the vibe was pretty mixed. Ankit Jain from the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum said the countries have a solid trade thing going with over 200 billion dollars changing hands, but slapping a 50 percent tariff on Indian stuff would be completely stupid for both sides. Big tech companies like Amazon and Microsoft are still throwing money at India despite the political weirdness.
Debesh Kumar Behera from the Indian Embassy brought up their upcoming AI summit that will push open-source tech and homegrown computing power. Community leaders talked about how Indian Americans are basically crushing it in AI development and need...
Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi told people at a Chicago event that America and India are basically in a freezing phase right now, which sucks because the partnership took decades to build up. He went off on Trump's tariff plans, saying a 50 percent hit on Indian imports is completely random and looks like it came from a social media post instead of actual policy work. The guy pointed out that slapping higher tariffs on India than China makes zero sense when you're trying to counter Beijing's influence.
Krishnamoorthi defended legal immigration pretty hard, calling it the thing that makes America work, and said the five million Indian Americans living here are basically the glue between Washington and New Delhi. He mentioned getting...
Modi is hitting up Jordan, Ethiopia, and Oman on a three-country swing that kicks off with King Abdullah II hosting him in the Hashemite Kingdom. The trip marks 75 years since India and Jordan established diplomatic ties, and they are gonna chat about bilateral stuff plus regional drama.
His second stop takes him to Ethiopia for talks with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali about cooperation between the two Global South partners. The visit wraps up in Oman, where Sultan Haitham bin Tarik is rolling out the red carpet to celebrate 70 years of relations between the nations.
India and Oman already have a strategic partnership based on centuries of trade and cultural connections. They will review everything from defense and energy to...
The Manipur BJP crew had a big meetup at their Delhi headquarters with over 30 state legislators showing up to hash out the whole peace situation and violence stuff. Ex-Chief Minister N. Biren Singh and Assembly Speaker Thokchom Satyabrata Singh were there along with party bosses B.L. Santhosh and Sambit Patra running the show.
Everyone's buzzing about whether they're gonna form a new government since the state has been under President's Rule for months after Biren Singh stepped down back in February. The BJP holds 37 seats in the 60-member Assembly, and a bunch of their MLAs have been pushing to get back in charge. The whole thing kicked off when legislators met with the national leadership last month, basically begging them to let...
Lady Gaga had to stop her Sydney show at Accor Stadium when one of her backup dancers ate it and fell off the stage during a performance. Michael Dameski slipped because the stage was soaked from the rain, and Gaga immediately shut down the music to check if he was okay before letting the concert continue. The dancer posted later that he was fine and finished out the final show of the year without any major problems.
Gaga actually had to pause the whole thing a second time later that night so the dancers could get better traction on their shoes since everything was still slippery. Her Mayhem Ball Tour has been going around North America and Europe before hitting Australia, and it heads to Japan next month before coming back to the...
Ed Sheeran basically told everyone to stop asking him about joining Strictly Come Dancing because he has zero interest in being part of that whole mess. The guy straight-up said he likes staying married, which was a pretty clear shot at how the show tends to wreck relationships when contestants get paired up with their dance partners. He also pointed out that dancing just is not his thing, even though he did learn ballroom moves for his Thinking Out Loud music video back in the day.
That video shoot apparently took six weeks of nonstop practice, which he compared to an intense version of the competition show but without cameras everywhere. During a recent performance, he threw in a song called Heaven as a shout-out to his wife Cherry...
Timothee Chalamet dropped over four grand on fancy chocolates from Venchi at Harrods while he was hanging out in London promoting his ping-pong movie Marty Supreme. The dude who played Willy Wonka apparently plans to hand out the expensive candy as Christmas presents to people back home in America, and he had hotel staff cart the whole haul back to his crazy expensive penthouse suite at The Emory.
The actor was over in the UK doing press stuff for his latest flick about a table tennis player from the 1950s. He's already getting awards buzz for playing Marty Mauser, and he's lined up to grab some actor-of-the-year trophy at a film festival next month. Some festival bigwig said his performance shows both the hunger for success and the...
