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Time of India
34 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Shefali Jariwala passes away: Ashish Vidyarthi expresses shock, recalls their their holiday together in Australia
Actress Shefali Jariwala passed away suddenly, shocking the industry. Ashish Vidyarthi recalled their first meeting and shared heartfelt condolences. Friends Rashami Desai and Himanshi Khurana also mourned her loss. Found dead in her Mumbai apartment, the cause of death remains unknown pending postmortem results. Actress Shefali Jariwala passed away late Friday night, leaving the entertainment industry in shock. Actor Ashish Vidyarthi , who met her recently at an event in Australia, expressed deep sorrow and disbelief. He recalled spending nine memorable days with Shefali during the trip, along with his wife, Rupali Barua. On his Instagram story, Ashish posted a photo of Shefali and penned a heartfelt note. He wrote, 'Shocked…Met you for the first time…And we all spent 9 amazing days in Australia…Rupali and I fondly remember your warmth and cheerful spirit…Strength to the family… Please accept our heartfelt condolences…" TV Industry Friends Mourn Shefali's Death Meanwhile, friends from the TV world, Rashami Desai and Himanshi Khurana, mourned Shefali's untimely death. Rashami posted a photo of Shefali, saying, 'I am still trying to process the news, you were an incredible person and I am struggling to find the words to express…You will be deeply missed, gone too soon." Himanshi shared a selfie with the late star and commented, 'Bigg Boss that place is cursed I think," followed by a heartbreak emoji. Circumstances Surrounding Shefali's Death Shefali was brought to Bellevue Multispecialty Hospital by her husband, Parag Tyagi, but was declared dead upon arrival. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Adidas Three Shorts With 60% Discount, Limited Stock Available Original Adidas Shop Now Undo Although early reports suggested a cardiac arrest, reports on ANI state that the Mumbai police officials state that she was found lifeless in her apartment. Her body was sent to Cooper Hospital for a postmortem on Friday night, with the cause of death still awaiting confirmation. See more: Shefali Jariwala Passes Away at 42 Live Updates Shefali's Rise to Fame She shot to fame almost overnight with the release of the hit song 'Kaanta Laga' in 2002. Her dance moves and striking looks quickly made her a favorite among young audiences, boosting her career significantly. She later transitioned to films, sharing screen space with big names like Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar , and Priyanka Chopra in the 2004 romantic comedy 'Mujhse Shaadi Karogi'.
The Herald Scotland
2 hours ago
- Sport
- The Herald Scotland
Can Paul Pogba revive his career after doping ban?
It might be the norm these days, but at the time I couldn't recall any other deal provoking quite such depth of coverage online. A then world record fee, the 'will he, won't he?' tension, the player's willingness to play up to it on his own social channels, the emergence of dubious 'ITK' [in-the-know] Twitter accounts all claiming to reveal the inner workings. It was everywhere. The first time a transfer of such magnitude played out almost entirely online. Pogba's agent at the time, the late Mino Raiola, casually tweeted updates - or rather, disdainfully shot down various rumours - from his personal account. Adidas, who sponsored both Pogba and Manchester United, constructed an entire digital marketing campaign around it, running cryptic posts and clips before the deal was confirmed. They even brought in rapper Stormzy for a music video that accompanied the announcement. You could argue there's still never been anything else quite like it. This week, it's been reported that Pogba, now 32, will sign for AS Monaco in Ligue 1 at the conclusion of a two-year doping ban that was reduced to 18 months on appeal. I daresay not everyone reading this column will have known that. The development has been little more than a sidebar on some of the biggest football news websites. Perhaps, though, low-key is what the Frenchman needs to get his career back on track. From the moment he set foot back in Old Trafford in 2016, it felt as though there was always a story following Pogba around. Manchester United are one of the world's most scrutinised clubs, and they'd just shattered the world transfer record to sign a player they'd lost from their own academy four years earlier. Pogba was no shrinking violet, either, an extroverted character who some perceived to care as much about his off-field image as his exploits on it. It was the perfect storm for incessant attention falling on a young man who was still only 23 when he became the most expensive footballer on the planet. The hype and expectation around him spiralled to levels he would never have been able to satisfy. He was billed as the silver bullet to United's neglected midfield; a player who was going to do it all, all the time. And yet, anyone who had watched him in Serie A — YouTube compilations notwithstanding — would have pointed out that Pogba's rise was catalysed by a stylishly blended midfield unit that, at various points, included the likes of Andrea Pirlo, Arturo Vidal, Claudio Marchisio and Sami Khedira. He was always a player who needed the right system. He was never a Superman figure, and yet the £90m that United paid for him dictated he would always be judged to that standard. Pogba quickly became a magnet for criticism, an easy headline grabber. There were times were it all became a little bit uncomfortable, a little too personal on some fronts. Of course, I'm not saying criticism of his performances were unwarranted. There were deficiencies in his game, particularly defensively, but which of the world's great midfielders didn't have some kind of shortcoming? And which were scrutinised to the exhausting extent Pogba was? Ironically, peak Pogba was as close as any to being the full package. We just didn't see it often enough. And so his career at a dysfunctional United seemed to drift. He became increasingly injury-prone, increasingly criticised by fans and pundits, an emblem of the Old Trafford decline. By the time he departed in the summer of 2022, it was widely agreed as being for the best, which seems an absurd thing to say about a player of his talent. Pogba returned to Juventus shortly after his release, but fitness issues persisted, and he missed the 2022 World Cup after undergoing knee surgery. In September 2023, he tested positive for a prohibited substance, was banned for two years, and Juventus terminated his contract shortly after. Now 32, he is set to return to top-flight football, and to the public eye. There's unlikely to be so much of a circus around him this time, but it's still a fascinating story. With the seemingly ever-increasing longevity in elite players, he's not necessarily back just for a final hurrah. The extended time away from the game may also have presented an opportunity to finally get to the bottom of his persistent injury troubles. But what's most interesting, perhaps, is seeing what Pogba can become without the hype and the noise. He is, to be blunt about it, yesterday's man — but that need not be a bad thing. There are new superstars, new icons, younger men to be built up and torn down. The world is unlikely to be obsessed with Paul Pogba as it once so feverishly was. Clearly, he has made mistakes for which he has paid a heavy price. In reducing his ban to 18 months, the Court of Arbitration for Sport accepted that Pogba's crime was one of carelessness, and that he did not knowingly accept a nutritional supplement from a doctor that elevated testosterone levels in his system. With that saga behind him, it stands to reason there will be a burning desire within him to remind people just how talented he is. Monaco, after finishing third in Ligue 1, will play in next season's Champions League, a chance for Pogba to re-announce himself to the world on the biggest stage in European club football. Perform in that arena, and it won't be long before there's debate over a recall to international duty. Pogba is already a World Cup winner with France; a return to Les Bleus isn't necessarily beyond him. For now, though, there'll be palpable relief at simply being able to set foot on a football pitch once more. I don't want to stray too far from the fact that Pogba's downfall was, at the very least, partly of his own making, but he is certainly not beyond redemption. He will surely wish to take control of the narrative throughout however many years he has left at the top level, as his career has featured so many contradictions. Supreme ability yet perceived as having unfulfilled potential. Derided as an underachiever despite being a world champion and quadruple Serie A winner. Maybe all those things can be true at the same time, and maybe that's in some way fitting for such an enigmatic individual.
Yahoo
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Women's Euro 2025: Ranking the best and worst of the away kits
One 'evokes morning light over snowy landscapes', another is inspired by its nation's 'vibrant street art scene', while one brings to mind a disco ball. But which are the best and worst of this summer's Women's Euros away kits? Advertisement We've pored over the pictures, swallowed the marketing spiel and had a go at separating the brilliant from the banal. Let us know whether you agree in the comments. Belgium Yellow and purple is a pretty bold choice of contrasting colours. Is it a football shirt or an ice-lolly wrapper? Why not both? Adidas has clearly decided to go all-out with its away kits for this European Championship, to experiment a little, and while many of the bold designs you will read about on this list are gambles that have paid off, this isn't one of them. The design is fine, but the colours just don't work with each other. Finland The Finland home shirt is a lesson in how to artfully introduce smart and intricate design into a football shirt. This is… not. It's partly the same pattern, but rather than subtly incorporating it into a a slim panel down the middle, it's enlarged and expanded across the whole body of the shirt. Which essentially makes it look like an owl who is determined to offer some sort of ritual sacrifice to whatever deranged god wants it. Genuinely unsettling. The owl's eyes follow you around the room. The horror. Wales This resembles a version of the Portugal away shirt, without a real sense of conviction. It's like they're twins and one is dynamic, interesting and charismatic, while the other is safe, bland, and talks about mortgage rates a lot. It doesn't look bad in itself, but next to Portugal's, it's all a bit 'look what you could've won'. The Adidas blurb claims this shirt features 'bold graphics', but can something be bold if you can't really see it? Netherlands Here we have essentially the same design as the 2024 home shirt, just in this pleasant light blue. It's… well, it's fine, isn't it? Not a huge amount more to get excited about. The colour is fine. The collar is fine. The little Netherlands-flag coloured detail on the collar is fine. The cut is fine. It's… well, it's fine. If you're under the age of 25, replace every instance of the word 'fine' in the past few lines with 'mid', if that helps at all. Sweden It looks OK but feels slightly lazy, or at least a bit 'off the peg' given the originality of some of the other away shirts Adidas has produced for this tournament. It does look most definitely like a Sweden shirt, and there is a bit of variation with the blended colours and wave effects near the shoulders, but this is essentially just an Adidas template with traditional Swedish away shirt colours. Will anyone really care? Maybe not, but this just feels quite safe. Switzerland Is this kit supposed to look so cold? Is it a tribute to the Swiss Alps? Are the swirls supposed to be a topographical reference, a nod to how those Alps might be displayed on a map? Actually, yes, that's all probably right, isn't it? I can't find any Puma marketing information, so it's difficult to ascertain for sure, but that's almost certainly it. Anyway, enough of all that: is this shirt any good? Well, yeah, sort of, it's fine. It does just look a bit… cold. Iceland Football shirts aren't necessarily supposed to make you relaxed, the sportswear equivalent of some scented candles and an album of panpipe music, but there's something extremely soothing about this one. Does it look like a T-shirt that someone who works in a shop selling bath salts would wear? Yes. Does it also make you want to buy some of those bath salts, fill up the tub, pour yourself a glass of wine and forget all of your worries? Also yes. Denmark There's often something quite nice about home and away kits that mirror each other, the same design but with the colours reversed. It's like they're 'of a piece', that someone has actually thought about how they might relate to each other, and in Denmark's case help create a consistent visual identity. This, like the home shirt, is a pretty basic design, and is perhaps made even more basic-looking due to it being white and red rather than red and white, but it still works. Poland Shiny! Part kit, part disco ball, this is the shirt you'd wear if you were trying to get into Studio 54 but had to come straight from your Thursday night five-a-side game. This is good, but there is a slight element of novelty to it, like someone at Nike had a design meeting and asked those present to come up with the wackiest idea they could think of. Does it have anything much to do with Poland? Probably not. Does that matter? Probably not. Norway The great debate that has already raged for centuries and surely will for centuries more: do pastel colours belong on a football shirt? The answer to which is, of course: maybe! Nike reports that this shirt's 'geometric lines celebrate the country's architecture, while the cool purples and icy turquoise evoke morning light over snowy landscapes'. Which does make it sound a bit like this shirt should come with a dream catcher, but that does it something of a disservice. At the very least it's different, and lord knows there are enough unimaginative designs around that you shouldn't dismiss something just because it's different. Italy Here's more sports company spiel that I am swallowing whole: the design on this Italy shirt is, we are reliably informed by Adidas, 'inspired by 15th century Italian Renaissance art', and I believe them. Because if we can't believe words cynically placed next to each other in an attempt to persuade us to part with our money, then what can we believe? It's also, setting apart the promotional bumf, just a nice shirt to look at, the pale green offset rather nicely by the bold red trim and details. Germany And some more marketing bull**** that I'm actually prepared to believe: according to the Adidas blurb, the design on this Germany away shirt is 'inspired by the nation's vibrant street art scene' — which actually makes sense! There IS a vibrant street art scene in Germany. These designs DO sort of look like they could belong in that. The pattern does sort of look like interlocking fingers, but if you can put that out of your mind, then this all looks really good. England The black football shirt is always a difficult one to pull off. You can easily end up with a glorified goalkeeper's jersey, and nobody wants that. The way to do it is with judicious use of strong contrast colours, and that's exactly what Nike has done here, with those pinks, blues and reds underneath the armpits and down the side of the shorts. Much, much better than the England home shirt. Which, admittedly, is the most damning of faint praise. Portugal Now, this is really smart. To design a shirt with this shade of green with those sort of graphics and not make it overwhelming and 'too much' requires a delicate touch. And whoever is in charge of these things at Puma seemingly has that delicate touch, because if the green was a slightly brighter shade, or the overlaying graphics slightly bolder, then it wouldn't have worked: too gaudy, too bright, too much. But as it is, they've got things just right. France This is really, really great. Nike is on the verge of being too clever for its own good with the slanted, asymmetric collar, but it falls down just on the right side of stylish. It helps that the colour scheme works perfectly, the red and blue trim paired splendidly with a sort of cream/off white. The main body colour is key when it comes to the use of a sort of salmon for the crest and Nike swoosh, which could be quite irritating, but it fits with the cream/off white in a way that it probably wouldn't with a traditional white. Tremendous. Spain Fantastic. A genuinely magnificent piece of kit design. Design generally, really. It's different, distinctive, original... and other words that essentially mean the same thing. The patterns fit together really well, the colours complement each other perfectly, the black Adidas stripes and logo offset it all nicely. If there's one gripe, it's that it doesn't necessarily look like a Spain shirt — maybe more of a deconstructed Argentina shirt — but that's nit-picking really. Advertisement This article originally appeared in The Athletic. England, Wales, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Iceland, Women's Soccer, Women's Euros 2025 The Athletic Media Company
New York Times
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Women's Euro 2025: Ranking the best and worst of the away kits
One 'evokes morning light over snowy landscapes', another is inspired by its nation's 'vibrant street art scene', while one brings to mind a disco ball. But which are the best and worst of this summer's Women's Euros away kits? We've pored over the pictures, swallowed the marketing spiel and had a go at separating the brilliant from the banal. Let us know whether you agree in the comments. Yellow and purple is a pretty bold choice of contrasting colours. Is it a football shirt or an ice-lolly wrapper? Why not both? Adidas has clearly decided to go all-out with its away kits for this European Championship, to experiment a little, and while many of the bold designs you will read about on this list are gambles that have paid off, this isn't one of them. The design is fine, but the colours just don't work with each other. The Finland home shirt is a lesson in how to artfully introduce smart and intricate design into a football shirt. This is… not. It's partly the same pattern, but rather than subtly incorporating it into a a slim panel down the middle, it's enlarged and expanded across the whole body of the shirt. Which essentially makes it look like an owl who is determined to offer some sort of ritual sacrifice to whatever deranged god wants it. Genuinely unsettling. The owl's eyes follow you around the room. The horror. This resembles a version of the Portugal away shirt, without a real sense of conviction. It's like they're twins and one is dynamic, interesting and charismatic, while the other is safe, bland, and talks about mortgage rates a lot. It doesn't look bad in itself, but next to Portugal's, it's all a bit 'look what you could've won'. The Adidas blurb claims this shirt features 'bold graphics', but can something be bold if you can't really see it? Here we have essentially the same design as the 2024 home shirt, just in this pleasant light blue. It's… well, it's fine, isn't it? Not a huge amount more to get excited about. The colour is fine. The collar is fine. The little Netherlands-flag coloured detail on the collar is fine. The cut is fine. It's… well, it's fine. If you're under the age of 25, replace every instance of the word 'fine' in the past few lines with 'mid', if that helps at all. It looks OK but feels slightly lazy, or at least a bit 'off the peg' given the originality of some of the other away shirts Adidas has produced for this tournament. It does look most definitely like a Sweden shirt, and there is a bit of variation with the blended colours and wave effects near the shoulders, but this is essentially just an Adidas template with traditional Swedish away shirt colours. Will anyone really care? Maybe not, but this just feels quite safe. Is this kit supposed to look so cold? Is it a tribute to the Swiss Alps? Are the swirls supposed to be a topographical reference, a nod to how those Alps might be displayed on a map? Actually, yes, that's all probably right, isn't it? I can't find any Puma marketing information, so it's difficult to ascertain for sure, but that's almost certainly it. Anyway, enough of all that: is this shirt any good? Well, yeah, sort of, it's fine. It does just look a bit… cold. Football shirts aren't necessarily supposed to make you relaxed, the sportswear equivalent of some scented candles and an album of panpipe music, but there's something extremely soothing about this one. Does it look like a T-shirt that someone who works in a shop selling bath salts would wear? Yes. Does it also make you want to buy some of those bath salts, fill up the tub, pour yourself a glass of wine and forget all of your worries? Also yes. There's often something quite nice about home and away kits that mirror each other, the same design but with the colours reversed. It's like they're 'of a piece', that someone has actually thought about how they might relate to each other, and in Denmark's case help create a consistent visual identity. This, like the home shirt, is a pretty basic design, and is perhaps made even more basic-looking due to it being white and red rather than red and white, but it still works. Shiny! Part kit, part disco ball, this is the shirt you'd wear if you were trying to get into Studio 54 but had to come straight from your Thursday night five-a-side game. This is good, but there is a slight element of novelty to it, like someone at Nike had a design meeting and asked those present to come up with the wackiest idea they could think of. Does it have anything much to do with Poland? Probably not. Does that matter? Probably not. The great debate that has already raged for centuries and surely will for centuries more: do pastel colours belong on a football shirt? The answer to which is, of course: maybe! Nike reports that this shirt's 'geometric lines celebrate the country's architecture, while the cool purples and icy turquoise evoke morning light over snowy landscapes'. Which does make it sound a bit like this shirt should come with a dream catcher, but that does it something of a disservice. At the very least it's different, and lord knows there are enough unimaginative designs around that you shouldn't dismiss something just because it's different. Here's more sports company spiel that I am swallowing whole: the design on this Italy shirt is, we are reliably informed by Adidas, 'inspired by 15th century Italian Renaissance art', and I believe them. Because if we can't believe words cynically placed next to each other in an attempt to persuade us to part with our money, then what can we believe? It's also, setting apart the promotional bumf, just a nice shirt to look at, the pale green offset rather nicely by the bold red trim and details. And some more marketing bull**** that I'm actually prepared to believe: according to the Adidas blurb, the design on this Germany away shirt is 'inspired by the nation's vibrant street art scene' — which actually makes sense! There IS a vibrant street art scene in Germany. These designs DO sort of look like they could belong in that. The pattern does sort of look like interlocking fingers, but if you can put that out of your mind, then this all looks really good. The black football shirt is always a difficult one to pull off. You can easily end up with a glorified goalkeeper's jersey, and nobody wants that. The way to do it is with judicious use of strong contrast colours, and that's exactly what Nike has done here, with those pinks, blues and reds underneath the armpits and down the side of the shorts. Much, much better than the England home shirt. Which, admittedly, is the most damning of faint praise. Now, this is really smart. To design a shirt with this shade of green with those sort of graphics and not make it overwhelming and 'too much' requires a delicate touch. And whoever is in charge of these things at Puma seemingly has that delicate touch, because if the green was a slightly brighter shade, or the overlaying graphics slightly bolder, then it wouldn't have worked: too gaudy, too bright, too much. But as it is, they've got things just right. This is really, really great. Nike is on the verge of being too clever for its own good with the slanted, asymmetric collar, but it falls down just on the right side of stylish. It helps that the colour scheme works perfectly, the red and blue trim paired splendidly with a sort of cream/off white. The main body colour is key when it comes to the use of a sort of salmon for the crest and Nike swoosh, which could be quite irritating, but it fits with the cream/off white in a way that it probably wouldn't with a traditional white. Tremendous. Fantastic. A genuinely magnificent piece of kit design. Design generally, really. It's different, distinctive, original... and other words that essentially mean the same thing. The patterns fit together really well, the colours complement each other perfectly, the black Adidas stripes and logo offset it all nicely. If there's one gripe, it's that it doesn't necessarily look like a Spain shirt — maybe more of a deconstructed Argentina shirt — but that's nit-picking really. (Top photos: Getty Images; design: Eamonn Dalton)
Daily Record
4 hours ago
- Daily Record
Shop staff share terror as meat cleaver thug launched attack before £2k till raid
Police have launched a probe after £2,000 was stolen from the Premier Bathville store in Armadale, West Lothian, at around 8.15pm on Thursday. A terrified shopkeeper was left in tears after a meat cleaver thug burst into a corner shop with a huge blade and demanded money from the till. Police have launched a probe after £2,000 was stolen from the Premier Bathville store in Armadale, West Lothian, at around 8.15pm on Thursday. Shop owner Abdul Manan, 27, has told how the balaclava-clad brute was seen in CCTV waiting at a bus stop outside the shop for half an hour as he carefully planned out the sinister attack. He then barged into the store, holding the meat cleaver above his head, as he pushed a member of staff with force and said "open your till now, empty it". Speaking to the Record, Abdul said: "It was my staff member Atta that was on when it happened. "He was terrified. He phoned me straight away and just started crying apologising to me, saying he should have stopped him. "I told him, don't worry. He did the right thing. All I wanted to know was that he was okay. "We don't want somebody getting hurt just for some money. That's not going to happen. He is still very shaken up, though." In CCTV footage captured in the shop, the thug can be seen with his face covered by a black balaclava and wearing a grey and black tracksuit top, with grey joggers and grey Adidas trainers. He is shown entering the store with the large meat cleaver and pushing Atta - who was tidying up newspapers at the time - against a shelf of vapes. The thug then threatens the terrified worker, directing the meat cleaver towards him and forcing him to open the till. Brave Atta can be seen calmly standing at the side of the robber before he makes off with nearly £2,000 in cash. Abdul said: " The police came out within five minutes and forensic officers were here until 2am checking for fingerprints and DNA. "It's quite disgusting. It was a very big meat cleaver he had. I've seen kitchen knives before but never this. "We are working hard and times are tough as it is - but for things like this to happen, it's devastating." Abdul says the shop will be hit hard by the robbery and the till will now be emptied every half an hour. He added: "I don't think there is any chance we will get this money back. Even if they catch the guy, I don't think we will get it back. "It will affect us. We were running short as it was but we will just need to work it out. "These guys just think they can get away with it - that's why they keep doing it. "I just hope the police catch him now so he can't target anyone else." A Police Scotland spokesperson said: 'Police received a report of a robbery at a premises on Lower Bathville in Armadale around 8.20pm on Thursday, June 26, 2025. 'A man threatened staff with a weapon before stealing approximately £2,000 in cash and running off. No-one was injured. 'Officers attended and enquiries are ongoing to trace the man.'
