There seems to be just no stopping ‘Durandhar’ at the box office. The film completed its 5th week at the ticket windows and emerged as the highest-earning film of the weekend. Directed by Aditya Dhar and starring Ranveer Singh in the lead, the film continued its extraordinary run at the box office, recording the strongest fifth-week performance to date.

‘Dhurandhar’ 5th weekend collections

As per early estimates on sacnilk, the film that has completed 1 month since its release on December 5, raked in an early collection of Rs 12.75 crore India net on Sunday. With its collection on Friday estimated at Rs 8.75 crore and Saturday’s net total of Rs 11.75 crore, the film’s fifth weekend total now stands at an impressive Rs 33.25 crore.

‘Dhurandhar’ records highest 5th week collections of all time

‘Dhurandhar’ has officially taken over Vicky Kaushal‘s ‘Chaava’ to score the highest fifth-week collection for a Hindi film. The historical film previously held the record with a total collection of Rs 30.05 crore. It must be noted that ‘Dhurandhar’ managed to beat that record in just 3 days.

‘Dhurandhar’ week-wise collections

‘Dhurandhar’ has been maintaining a strong hold over the box office since its release last month. The film completed its first week at the box office with a total collection of Rs 207.25 crore. In its second week, the film saw a surge in numbers, recording its highest net collections with an estimated Rs 253.25 crore. During its third week, the film managed to hold strong, despite slipping below the Rs 200 crore mark, the film earned an impressive Rs 172 crore. The film also managed to cross the Rs 100 crore mark in its fourth week, with a total net collection of Rs 106.5 crore. With the film’s fifth weekend numbers, the total net collections of ‘Dhurandhar’ now stand at an estimated Rs 772.25 crore.

‘Dhurandhar’ gross total collections

As per the report, the film’s India gross collections stand at an estimated Rs 925.5 crore. With an addition of Rs 275 crore coming in from overseas markets, ‘Dhurandhar’ has now officially crossed the Rs 1,200 crore mark at the worldwide box office. The film’s current worldwide collection stands at an estimated Rs 1,201.5 crore, thus cementing its position as the biggest blockbuster of 2025 and one of the highest-grossing Indian films of all time.

NEW DELHI: Bangladesh pacer Mustafizur Rahman has reacted to his release from the Indian Premier League (IPL) by the IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR).His reaction came before the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Sunday resolved that the national team will not travel to India for the upcoming T20 World Cup. The decision was taken at a meeting held on Sunday afternoon.The matter was discussed against the backdrop of Mustafizur Rahman’s exclusion from the IPL. BCB directors had earlier met online on Saturday night to discuss the issue.At that stage, most directors were not in favour of taking any strict step. However, following intervention from the Bangladesh government, the board reviewed its position and changed its decision.What BCB said“The Board reviewed the situation in detail, taking into account developments over the last 24 hours and expressed deep concern over the overall circumstances surrounding the participation of the Bangladesh National Team in matches scheduled to be played in India,” the BCB said in an official release.“Following a thorough assessment of the prevailing situation and the growing concerns regarding the safety and security of the Bangladesh contingent in India and considering the advice from the Bangladesh Government, the Board of Directors resolved that the Bangladesh National Team will not travel to India for the tournament under the current conditions,” the statement added.The BCB has also requested that Bangladesh’s T20 World Cup matches be moved out of India. “In light of this decision, the BCB has formally requested the International Cricket Council (ICC), as the event authority, to consider relocating all of Bangladesh’s matches to a venue outside India,” the board said.The decision followed Mustafizur Rahman’s release by IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) after instructions from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), amid rising diplomatic tension between India and Bangladesh.Reacting to the development, Mustafizur said, “If they release me, there’s nothing much I can do,” while speaking to BDCrictime.KKR had signed the 30-year-old left-arm pacer for Rs 9.20 crore at the players’ auction last month. His base price was Rs 2 crore, with Chennai Super Kings and Delhi Capitals also involved in the bidding.The BCCI said KKR will be allowed to name a replacement player if required for the tournament, which is scheduled to start on March 26.India and Sri Lanka are the joint hosts of the 2026 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. As per the schedule released so far, Bangladesh are set to play West Indies in Kolkata on February 7, the opening day of the tournament.Bangladesh’s remaining three group-stage matches are also scheduled to be held in Kolkata and Mumbai.Earlier on Sunday, the BCB announced a 15-member squad for the World Cup, naming Liton Das as captain.

KOLKATA: Sunday marked two months of the SIR rollout in Bengal as people struggle to get back something as basic as their voting right amid confusion among officials over which documents are kosher, multiple orders from Election Commission, flip-flops, and innumerable goof-ups.The chaotic drive led CM Mamata Banerjee to write on Saturday to chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar to either “rectify glitches” or halt the “unplanned, arbitrary and ad-hoc” SIR of electoral rolls.Banerjee asked the CEC why Bengal was being “singled out” for “arbitrary and illegal” voter deletions. This was her fourth letter to Kumar since SIR began. Jayanti Devi (80) was one face of the confusion. Laden with a bag of medicines and documents, she stood clueless outside an SIR hearing camp at Chetla Boys’ High School in Kolkata Sunday. She was asked to come for a second hearing with an old ration card or her parents’ documents. “I cannot hear or see properly. I can hardly walk… I don’t have many documents, but I have a voter card. I have always cast my vote. Now they are saying there is a problem,” she said.Jayanti’s son said they had not been told of the EC order that voters aged 85 or more, as well as those who are sick or disabled, will not be called to such hearings. “They (EC officials) did come, but only to inform us about the hearing date. My parents moved to Chetla in 1967. She has been voting here since,” he said.At Kalighat High School, Sister John Paul of the Missionaries of Charity had to appear for a hearing for putting Sister Nirmala in the column for her “parent’s name” – the standard practice among all such orders and one acknowledged by EC.A Goan, Sister Paul came to Bengal in 2002 – the reference year for SIR in Bengal. In 2006, she had her voter and Aadhaar cards made and Sister Nirmala, then superior general of missionaries of charity, was named her guardian in the documents. “I did not have my birth certificate with me. My sister sent it to me. It’s absolute chaos,” the 46-year-old said. Around 10 nuns of the order have received hearing notices.Roma Samanta, a voter in Kolkata’s Rashbehari, got a hearing notice as her name was mixed up with a namesake from Kaliaganj in North Dinajpur district, over 400km away. “We have been living here for 30 years… Our BLO told us to write a letter to the CEO. We have come to submit that,” Samanta’s husband said.In her letter to the CEC, the CM highlighted some of these hassles. “Family register, extensively accepted as valid proof of identity during the SIR exercise in Bihar, is now reportedly being denied… such selective and unexplained exclusion of a previously accepted document raises serious concerns of discrimination and arbitrariness,” Banerjee wrote.The CM claimed residence/domicile certificates issued by state authorities were also being rejected. Calling EC insensitive, CM said even the “elderly, infirm, and seriously ill citizens are not being spared”. “Many electors are being compelled to travel 20-25km to attend hearings, which have inexplicably been centralised rather than decentralised,” she wrote.Amid the outcry, the poll panel announced 160 more SIR hearing centres, mostly in north Bengal. The new centres will be set up keeping in mind geographical constraints and distance for voters, EC officials said.

KULLU: One of the three accused women students in the alleged ragging and sexual harassment case at Dharamshala Govt college, in which their 19-year-old classmate died last month on December 26, denied all charges. In a video posted on social media, she claimed that neither of them was involved in ragging nor had witnessed any such harassment occurring in the college.“We were all classmates in BA first year. How is it possible that we ragged our own classmate? Also, we all belong to the Scheduled Caste community and can’t possibly harass someone who belongs to the same caste as we do. I am so puzzled and can’t understand why such allegations were made against me,” the student stated in the video. “We were told by a student that a third-year student ragged her. But that was it, and there was no proof. We knew nothing more than that,” she added.The student further alleged that the deceased was scared of her father, as he was “very strict”. In the video, she also supported the accused associate professor, saying he was innocent and had never made the victim feel uncomfortable.The teachers of the college also came out in support of the associate professor, who was suspended Saturday, two days after a police case was registered against him and the three women students. In a statement, the teachers claimed that the accused professor had an “unblemished record and impeccable integrity” and, as far as “the casteist allegations are concerned, the teacher himself belongs to the OBC category and the claims seem to be far from the truth.“Acting on the complaint filed by the deceased student’s father, police registered a case against the accused associate professor and three women students under BNS Sections 75 (sexual harassment), 115(2) (causing hurt), and 3(5) (common intention), and Section 3 of Himachal Pradesh Educational Institution (Prohibition of) Ragging Act 2009.

Delcy Rodríguez (File photo)

Venezuela’s military on Sunday said it recognised Delcy Rodriguez, deputy to ousted president Nicolas Maduro, as the country’s acting leader, after US forces extracted the former head of state to face trial.Defense minister Vladimir Padrino issued a statement endorsing a Supreme Court ruling that appointed Rodriguez as acting president for 90 days, reported news agency AFP.The head of Venezuela’s military also urged the country’s population to resume their normal activities, after US forces bombed the country and seized its leader Nicolas Maduro.“I call on the people of Venezuela to resume their activities of all kinds, economic, work and education, in the coming days,” Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez said in a televised address.This comes hours after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that discussions of Venezuela holding elections following Nicolas Maduro’s ouster were “premature”. He said the Trump administration was focused on ensuring the remaining leadership in Caracas enacts policy changes.Asked how soon Venezuelan elections would be following Maduro’s capture by US forces on Saturday, Rubio told NBC’s “Meet the Press”: “All of that, I think, is premature at this point.”“What we are focused on right now is all of the problems we had when Maduro was there. We still have those problems in terms of them needing to be addressed. We are going to give people an opportunity to address those challenges and those problems,” he was quoted as saying by AFP.Trump announced on Saturday that US forces had carried out a “large-scale strike” in Venezuela, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, following pre-dawn attacks on Caracas that killed at least 40 people and triggered widespread panic across the capital.After reports of multiple explosions and low-flying aircraft, Venezuelan government forces deployed nationwide and the country entered a state of national emergency. Maduro and his wife have now been indicted in New York on terrorism and drug charges, with Trump accusing Maduro of running a “narco terrorist organisation.”A photo released by Trump on his social media platform Truth Social showed Maduro in handcuffs, wearing a blacked-out mask.Attorney General Pam Bondi posted an unsealed indictment charging Maduro with narco-terrorism, cocaine importation conspiracies, and possession of machine guns, offences that carry severe prison sentences when combined with drug trafficking charges.