Jordan James Parke, the reality TV star famously known as the “Lip King” for his appearances on E!’s Botched, has died at the age of 34. Parke, who gained notoriety for spending over £130,000 to look like Kim Kardashian, was reportedly found unresponsive in a London apartment on February 18, 2026.

Trigger warning: This article contains mentions of death, reader’s discretion is advised.Jordan James Parke, who was best known for his appearance on the famed reality show ‘Botched,’ has passed away. He was 34 at the time of his passing. The influencer was well-known for getting enhancement surgeries and cosmetic medical procedures that cost well over USD 150,000. He passed away on February 18.

Jordan James Parke passed away at 34

The acclaimed influencer, also known as the ‘Lip King’, passed away last week at the age of 34. As per reports shared by The Daily Mail, it has been suspected that the man passed away after undergoing some cosmetic procedures; however, the investigation into the matter is still underway. The news was initially confirmed by the man’s sister, Sharnelle, who shared a heartfelt tribute to her brother. Her post read, “Jordan I have no words to explain the sadness and heartbreak that we are feeling you were our bestfriend … our WHOLE WORLD … our everything! we love you more than anything in the world!! There are simply no words to express how grateful that we had you in our lives.” She further concluded the post on an emotional note, citing “I hope you are dancing in the sky with Nan and Granda (star emoji).”

Two people arrested in relation to Jordan James Parke’s passing

The influencer was found unresponsive in London by the authorities, after which it was confirmed that Jordan James Parke had passed away. The Metropolitan Police confirmed the news through an official statement, sharing that an ambulance was called to Lincoln Plaza, Canary Wharf. In relation to the case, the authorities have stated that “his death is currently being treated as unexplained” and that a 43-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman have also been arrested.

About Jordan James Parke

Jordan James Parke was known for his continuous cosmetic procedures, which he started getting done at the age of 19. These all included nose jobs, neck, lips, and jawline fillers, a BBL, and a chin implant.

Shahid Kapoor’s latest release, *O Romeo*, is facing a tough run at the box office, falling short of audience expectations. After a promising start, the film’s collections dropped sharply. On day 11, it managed just Rs 1.65 crore, pushing its India total to Rs 57.45 crore and worldwide gross to Rs 90.85 crore. Read on to know more in detail.

Shahid Kapoor‘s ‘O’ Romeo’ is nearing its second week in theaters. The film witnessed a lukewarm response from the audience at the box office. While the moviegoers had pinned their hopes on the Vishal Bhardwaj directorial, it failed to deliver the expectations. Now, let’s take a look at its Day 11 earnings and how much it will collect on Day 12.O’ Romeo Movie Review

‘O’ Romeo’ box office collection Day 11 (second Monday)

The Shahid Kapoor starrer raked in a good number at the box office on its debut day in theaters, and it showcased a similar trend until the first weekend. However, after the first Monday, the movie started witnessing a downward trend in box office earnings. Now, according to the Sacnilk report, on its Day 11, the romantic revenge drama has collected Rs 1.65 crore in India.

‘O’ Romeo’ box office collection Day 12 (today)

This section will be updated as soon as the numbers are available.

Total and worldwide collection

With that, the total collection of the film is Rs 57.45 crore in India. The worldwide earnings of the Vishal Bhardwaj directorial are now Rs 90.85 crore.

Day-wise collection

Week 1 Collection: Rs 47.1 croreDay 8 [2nd Friday]: Rs 2.15 croreDay 9 [2nd Saturday]: Rs 3.4 croreDay 10 [2nd Sunday]: Rs 3.25 croreDay 11 [2nd Monday]: Rs 1.65 croreTotal: Rs 57.45 crore

Occupancy

According to the same report, ‘O’ Romeo’ had an overall 8.49% Hindi occupancy on Monday, February 23, 2026.

More about ‘O’Romeo’

Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, the film stars Shahid Kapoor and Triptii Dimri in the lead roles. He plays the role of gangster Ustara, and she is seen essaying the character of Afsha Qureshi.Apart from the lead duo, the movie also features Avinash Tiwary, Nana Patekar, Farida Jalal, Tamannaah Bhatia, Disha Patani, and Vikrant Massey.The film was released in theaters on February 13, 2026.

DISCLAIMER: The box office numbers and data in this article are compiled from diverse public and industry sources. All figures are approximate unless explicitly mentioned, offering a fair representation of the movie’s box office performance. These totals may change as official studio data is updated or as additional international market reports are finalized. This data is provided by us for informational and entertainment purposes only.

Shoaib Akhtar slams Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube

NEW DELHI: Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar slammed India’s bowling attack after their heavy 76-run loss to South Africa in the T20 World Cup Super 8 match. He said the defeat exposed how fragile India’s bowling unit is, especially against strong batting line-ups like the Proteas.Akhtar was particularly critical of Hardik Pandya and Shivam Dube, who gave away 67 runs in six overs for just one wicket. He felt they lacked pace and intimidation, and that using them in the death overs was a tactical mistake.

“Hardik and Shivam Dube were bowling at around 120 kmph. It’s not as if they are Malcolm Marshall — someone who would intimidate a batting line-up of South Africa’s calibre. If you deploy them in the death overs, such a counterattack from the Proteas is inevitable,” he said on Tapmad.He also pointed out that India’s bowling looked vulnerable overall, with South African batters dominating even the team’s key bowlers. Akhtar highlighted Varun Chakaravarthy’s expensive spell, saying his usual pace was down and that he was punished by the batters. “Indian bowling has been exposed. If you look at Varun, whose strength is bowling at 97-98 kmph, he was clocking 94. And when he came into the attack, he was hit for a no-look six by Dewald Brevis,” he added.Akhtar suggested that India should bring Kuldeep Yadav into the team, calling him the “missing link” who can trick batters and take wickets at crucial moments. “The missing link here is Kuldeep Yadav. He is someone who can deceive batters in the air and pick up wickets when needed. He is a proven match-winner.”He also felt that Varun Chakaravarthy and Washington Sundar offer similar skills, making India’s bowling attack predictable and easier for top teams to attack.

India’s Axar Patel celebrates with teammates (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Criticism continues to mount over India’s decision to bench vice-captain Axar Patel for the T20 World Cup 2026 Super 8 clash against South Africa national cricket team at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday.The team management, led by head coach Gautam Gambhir and captain Suryakumar Yadav, opted to include Washington Sundar instead, citing South Africa’s left-heavy top order as the primary reason. However, the tactical switch failed to deliver the desired impact, with Sundar putting in an underwhelming performance as India slumped to a crushing 76-run defeat.

Former India captain Ajinkya Rahane has now joined the growing list of voices questioning the move. While Jasprit Bumrah removed both Quinton de Kock and Ryan Rickelton early, Sundar was unable to trouble the middle order. He bowled just two overs, conceding 17 runs at an economy of 8.5, and was comfortably handled by David Miller and Dewald Brevis.Rahane did not hide his disappointment with the selection call.“I’m really surprised that Axar Patel didn’t play. I don’t understand what’s happening. Yes, Washington Sundar is a quality player; nobody is against him. But Axar has been doing so well in different situations. Sometimes I feel that when you become too smart, selection-wise, it can hamper you. You brought Sundar because too many left-handers in the South African lineup, but he only bowled two overs,” Rahane said on Cricbuzz.He further stressed that match-up theories do not always guarantee success.“There’s no guarantee that off-spinners will bowl really well against the left-handers. Axar’s record against left-handed batters is really good. We all saw what Keshav Maharaj did. You have to play the quality player in your team who has done so well for you in the past,” he added.What made the decision more puzzling, according to critics, was the fact that Axar is the designated vice-captain. He had earlier been rested for the game against the Netherlands, allowing Sundar his first outing of the 2026 T20 World Cup. Many expected Axar to return for the crucial Super 8 encounter, but the management persisted with Sundar — a move that backfired badly.Rahane reiterated that overthinking may have cost the team dearly.“When you overthink, I get the match-ups. Axar Patel is a quality player; he has done well for you in the past. He is a quality left-arm spinner with great character. No one is against Washington Sundar, but you have to back your main guy,” said Rahane.“He’s the vice-captain of the team. Unless he has a niggle, which we don’t know about. If he’s fit, he should be in the XI, any day,” he added.Following the heavy defeat in Ahmedabad, pressure has intensified on Gambhir and the think tank. With their campaign now on shaky ground, India face a must-win clash against Zimbabwe on Thursday, February 26, at the MA Chidambaram Stadium. Another setback could effectively end their hopes of reaching the semi-finals.

Panaji: FIFA president Gianno Infantino isn’t the first to refer to India as a “sleeping giant of football.” Well, at a current world ranking of 141, the giant continues to remain in slumber.For the first time since the AFC Asian Cup was expanded to accommodate 24 teams, India have failed to qualify for the continental showpiece. The top-tier league has 14 teams but just 13 matches for each club this season, and the national team has remained winless in 15 competitive matches, since Nov 2023.In the next three months, however, three national teams will try and achieve what has never been done before: qualify for the World Cup on sporting merit. Should that be achieved, everyone, including FIFA, the governing body for world football, will be celebrating.“I have previously spoken of India as a sleeping giant of football, and with FIFA’s ultimate objective being to make football truly global, we need to prioritise growth and development in the country,” FIFA president Gianni Infantino told TOI on Monday. “In my time as FIFA president, I have always emphasised that football starts from the grassroots level; the level from which truly sustainable development flows.”Infantino completes ten years as FIFA president on Thursday. In his manifesto as candidate to the FIFA presidency, the former UEFA general secretary said his main objective was “to put football back at the centrestage of all that FIFA does”. He wanted to deliver concrete actions for football all around the world, and with India’s undeniable strength in numbers, the country has not escaped the global body’s attention.“We have placed importance on holistic development programmes like FIFA Forward and Football for Schools, both of which India has been committed to. It is also why we identified India as an early target for the implementation of FIFA’s talent development scheme under chief of global football development Arsene Wenger. By offering access to expertise and other resources and promoting knowledge exchange, we will continue to work with the All India Football Federation and Indian clubs to enable men’s and women’s football in the country to reach its full potential,” said Infantino.FIFA said it provides support to cover operational costs of all associations, as well as funding for specific projects, and without its help, there would be no tournament football in 150 member countries, as they simply wouldn’t have the resources to develop the necessary infrastructure.In 2023, Wenger, famous for his hugely-successful stint with Arsenal in the Premier League, visited India to kick off the ground-breaking talent development scheme.“I believe that we have an opportunity to change the world of football,” Wenger said during his four-day visit to India. “Football is the number one sport in the world, and a country like India, with a population of 1.4 billion, of course has to exist in this world – and that’s why we are here.”

Former assistant coach of Team India Abhishek Nayar exposes some of the wrong calls made by the Suryakumar Yadav-led team against South Africa. Nayar explains why the batters failed in chasing. He also pointed out that the wrong step made the team management over the opening pair.

From the top part of the batting order to the lower end, there was only Shivam Dube who successfully extracted a notable amount of runs from the challenge wicket of the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.

Against South Africa, India’s entire batting order collapsed

Ahead of the Super 8 phase, Team India was in top form, surpassing all barricades in the group stage set by the United States, Namibia, Pakistan, and Netharlands. Riding high on a pure team game, India got to win all of their group matches and qualified for the next stage of the 2026 T20 World Cup.

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On the night of February 22, the momentum was with the Men in Blue, but a wrong call can be enough to spoil the party. The first call made by the team management was to ask Ishan Kishan to take on the opening balls over Abhishek Sharma. Ishan Kishan was the in-form batter, but his opening partner, Abhishek Sharma, sustained three back-to-back ducks in the group stage.

The team management wanted to protect Abhishek Sharma

The management’s intention might have been to protect Abhishek Sharma and use Kishan as a safeguard. As soon as Aiden Markram, who is a part-time spinner, dismissed Kishan for a duck, things started to fall for the co-host of the tournament, Abhishek Nayar says. Abhishek Sharma also departed cheaply.

“It’s going to be a very uncomfortable discussion between Ishan Kishan and Abhishek as to who takes the strike because suddenly he has passed the baton of the zeroes (Abhishek Sharma) to Ishan Kishan, someone who was in prime form”, the experienced coach opines.

“But this is a problem for India. There is definitely going to be a discussion about how they can overcome an off-spinner bowling to them because, keep in mind, when they take on the West Indies as well, Roston Chase is going to bowl in the powerplay to them”, he further added.

Abhishek Nayar’s suggestion for the Indian batters

Whether it was Pakistan or South Africa, most of the teams target the Indian national cricket team’s opening pair with a spinner. Nayar gives a gentle reminder that the West Indies also have Roston Chase, who can do the damage with his spin bowling.

To avoid similar situations in the upcoming matches, which will be against Zimbabwe and, then with West Indies, the coach suggests that the batters rethink their approach against the spinners.

“So they will want to come back with better plans. With the newer ball, when you hit the seam at times as a finger spinner, you can get that extra bounce, and that’s the tricky part. If it’s slightly slower in the air, like we saw there, and the ball hits the seam and deviates even a bit, that’s enough in T20 cricket to get you out because it creates doubt and can earn you a wicket”, Nayar further stated.

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NEW DELHI: Team India’s road to the T20 World Cup 2026 semi-finals has become significantly tougher after a heavy 76-run defeat to South Africa in their opening Super 8 clash in Ahmedabad on Sunday. Placed in Group 1 alongside South Africa, West Indies and Zimbabwe, India slipped into early trouble in the second phase of the tournament.In the other Group 1 fixture, West Indies registered a dominant 107-run win over Zimbabwe to move to the top of the table. Following that result, South Africa sit second, while India have dropped to third, with their Net Run Rate taking a massive hit.

T20 World Cup Super 8s: How India lost to South Africa

Under the leadership of Suryakumar Yadav, India were outclassed in all departments. After choosing to bat, South Africa piled up an imposing 187/7. David Miller led the charge with a composed 63, while Dewald Brevis injected momentum with a quickfire 45. Jasprit Bumrah stood out with figures of 3/15, but the rest of the attack struggled to contain the flow of runs.India’s response never gathered steam. Regular wickets derailed the chase, and the batting line-up failed to build partnerships. Marco Jansen ripped through the middle order with a four-wicket haul as India were bundled out for 111. The comprehensive defeat not only handed South Africa two crucial points but also left India with a worrying Net Run Rate of -3.800.With two matches remaining, India are now in a must-win situation.

India T20 World Cup Qualification Scenario

Scenario 1 – India win both matchesIf India beat both West Indies and Zimbabwe, they will finish on four points. And if South Africa win all their matches, both India and South Africa will qualify for the semis. If India win both matches and South Africa lose one of their games, three teams could end up tied on four points. In that case, qualification would be decided by Net Run Rate.If India win both their matches and South Africa lose both their games, then India and West Indies will qualify for the semi-final. Scenario 2 – India win one matchIf India pull off only one win, then they will be eliminated irrespective of what happens in other results of the group.India’s campaign now hangs in the balance, with little margin for error.

NEW DELHI: Government on Monday unveiled the country’s first-ever anti-terror policy elevating its “pro-active and intelligence-guided” approach to the level of a doctrine, which focuses, apart from the persisting threat of “hostile neighbours” deploying terror, on the new challenges of terrorists using modern communication devices and criminal networks.‘Prahaar’, an acronym for India’s comprehensive counter-terrorism policy and strategy, aims at criminalising all terrorist acts and starving terrorists, their financiers and supporters of funding, weapons, safe havens and cyber resources.The policy rests on seven key pillars, represented by each letter of the acronym. It focuses on ‘prevention’ of terror attacks; ‘responses’ that are swift and proportionate; ‘aggregating’ of internal capacities for a whole-of-govt approach; ‘human rights’ and rule of law-based processes for mitigation of threats; ‘attenuating’ the conditions enabling terrorism, including radicalisation; ‘aligning’ international efforts to counter-terrorism; and ‘recovery’ through a whole-of-society approach.

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Stating that India has been at the forefront of the fight against terrorism, the policy refers to ‘neighbours’ which use terrorism as an instrument of the state, highlighting threats from jihadi outfits as well as global terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda.

Prahaar aims at graded police response to radicalisation

Describing the way forward, the policy hints at the scope for further collaboration among various agencies on intelligence collection and investigation. While seeking amendments in the counter-terror legal framework “from time to time”, it underlines the continual need for building capacity of state-level counter-terror mechanisms and unity in their structure, resources, training and investigation methods.Stating that violent extremists based on foreign soil are using the latest technologies, including drones, to unleash terror in Punjab and J&K, the policy flags the use of organised criminal networks for logistics and recruitment, for executing terror strikes in India.

Also, drawing attention to the use of social media and instant messaging apps for terror communication and propaganda, the policy concedes how encryption, dark web and crypto have allowed terror groups to operate with anonymity.With foreign-based terror groups relying on infrastructure, logistics and terrain knowledge of local outfits for trans-national terror attacks, Prahaar emphasises the need for international cooperation and collaboration, including to counter the misuse of information and communications technology (ICT) by terrorists, with investments in technology and partnerships with private enterprise.The counter-terror strategy aims at preventing attacks with a ‘pro-active and intelligence-guided’ approach with synergy among the central and state agencies. Similarly, it calls for pro-active disruption of cyber activities of terror groups and continuous disruption of overground worker networks by the law enforcement agencies (LEAs).For timely counter-terror response, the strategy requires all stakeholders at central, state and district level to have a uniform anti-terror structure and standard procedures. As regards “aggregating” capacities, LEAs and security agencies must be modernised with the latest tools, technology and weaponry. Prahaar also seeks to safeguard human rights with legal processes that allow multiple levels of redressal and appeal to terror accused.The policy aims at graded police response to radicalisation with legal action dependent on the level of radicalisation. At the same time, socio-economic conditions of vulnerable youths and groups must be addressed with education and constructive engagement, in addition to de-radicalisation programmes.The need to align and shape international efforts against terrorism with treaties and processes like extradition, deportation as per UN norms are also outlined.

NEW DELHI: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will pay a three-day visit to India beginning this week, Ottawa said in an official announcement. Carney will spend two days in Mumbai before arriving in New Delhi on March 2 for a bilateral meeting with PM Narendra Modi that is expected to further cement the relationship that was rocked by the killing of a Sikh separatist in 2023.Energy, trade, defence and technology, apart from security, are issues that will likely dominate the agenda for what will be Carney’s first visit to India as Prime Minister. The leaders will review efforts to reach a framework for a comprehensive economic partnership agreement.India and Canada are looking to start fresh negotiations for a trade pact that will help enable $50 billion annual trade by 2050. A 10-year agreement for uranium procurement by India from Canada is likely to be signed during the visit.Canada said that the leaders will focus on elevating and expanding the Canada-India relationship, with ambitious new partnerships in trade, energy, technology and AI, talent and culture, and defence. He will meet with business leaders to identify investment opportunities in Canada and create new partnerships between businesses in both nations.“In a more divided and uncertain world, Canada’s new govt is focused on what we can control. We are building a stronger, more independent, and more resilient economy. We are building our strength at home, diversifying our trade abroad, and attracting massive new international investment,” said Carney’s office in a statement, announcing his visit to India, Australia and Japan.“To these ends, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, announced that he will travel to India, Australia, and Japan, from Feb 26 to March 7, 2026, to unlock new opportunities for Canadian workers and businesses across trade, energy, technology, and defence. Through these visits to three of Canada’s strongest Indo-Pacific partners, the Prime Minister will deepen regional ties that are critical to our security and prosperity,” it added.