In a remarkable feat, Ranveer Singh’s ‘Dhurandhar’ has soared to the top, officially becoming his highest-grossing film. This thrilling espionage drama has raked in an impressive Rs 607.25 crore domestically and surpassed Rs 900 crore globally within just 20 days. The film’s cast has received resounding accolades for their powerful performances, all crafted brilliantly by director Aditya Dhar.

Aditya Dhar‘s ‘Dhurandhar’ has been creating history at the box office since its release. It has become Ranveer Singh‘s highest-grossing movie of his career. The film has been raking in good numbers at the box office every day. Even in its third week, the movie managed to pull the audience into theaters. Let’s take a look at how much it earned on its 20th day since release.Dhurandhar Movie Review

‘Dhurandhar’ box office Day 20

The Ranveer Singh-led movie has been receiving praise from all quarters. And not just the lead actor, but the audience has appreciated the performances by every cast member. According to the Sacnilk report, the film has raked in Rs 17.75 crore at the box office on its 20th day since release. With this, the total collection of the film in India is Rs 607.25 crore.The third week collection is now Rs 146 crore in the country.This number represents the domestic earnings, while the movie has already crossed the Rs 900 crore mark at the global box office. According to the Bollywood Hungama report, the worldwide gross collection is Rs 935.17 crore.

Day-wise collection (domestic)

Meanwhile, let’s take a look at the day-wise collection of the blockbuster. Day 1 [1st Friday]: Rs 28 croreDay 2 [1st Saturday]: Rs 32 croreDay 3 [1st Sunday]: Rs 43 croreDay 4 [1st Monday]: Rs 23.25 croreDay 5 [1st Tuesday]: Rs 27 croreDay 6 [1st Wednesday]: Rs 27 croreDay 7 [1st Thursday]: Rs 27 croreWeek 1 Collection: Rs 207.25 croreDay 8 [2nd Friday]: Rs 32.5 croreDay 9 [2nd Saturday]: Rs 53 croreDay 10 [2nd Sunday]: Rs 58 croreDay 11 [2nd Monday]: Rs 30.5 croreDay 12 [2nd Tuesday]: Rs 30.5 croreDay 13 [2nd Wednesday]: Rs 25.5 croreDay 14 [2nd Thursday]: Rs 23.25 croreWeek 2 Collection: Rs 253.25 croreDay 15 [3rd Friday]: Rs 22.5 croreDay 16 [3rd Saturday]: Rs 34.25 croreDay 17 [3rd Sunday]: Rs 38.5 croreDay 18 [3rd Monday]: Rs 16.5 croreDay 19 [3rd Tuesday]: Rs 17.25 croreDay 20 [3rd Wednesday]: Rs 17.75 croreTotal: Rs 607.25 crore

Occupancy

According to Sacnilk, the multi-starrer espionage thriller directed by Aditya Dhar witnessed an overall 32.52% Hindi occupancy on Wednesday (Day 20), December 24, 2025.

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On day 6 (Wednesday), since its release on December 19, 2025, the film has collected Rs 10.25 crore at the box office in India. The total collection is Rs 95.75 crore.

More about ‘Dhurandhar’

The movie stars Ranveer Singh as an Indian spy who infiltrates the te*** networks of the Lyari Town in Pa****. It also features Sanjay Dutt, R Madhavan, Akshaye Khanna, Arjun Rampal, Rakesh Bedi, and Sara Arjun. The lead cast is being supported by talented actors like Danish Pandor, Gaurav Gera, Naveen Kaushik, Saumya Tandon, Naseem Mughal, and more, who play pivotal roles in the film.The film was released in theaters on December 5, 2025. The next part is scheduled to hit cinemas on March 19, 2026.

Navi Mumbai airport opens today with 30 domestic flights (Picture credit: PTI)

MUMBAI: Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) opens to commercial operations on Thursday after years of missed deadlines, opening a second gateway for air travel in the Mumbai region. The day will see four airlines operating about 30 domestic flights at India’s newest greenfield airport. The first scheduled arrival will be an IndiGo flight from Bengaluru, touching down at 8 am, while the first departure will also be operated by IndiGo, a morning service from Navi Mumbai to Hyderabad, scheduled to take off at 8.40 am. The terminal building will open to departure passengers around 6.40 am, said an NMIA spokesperson.“On Day One, domestic services will be operated by IndiGo, Air India Express, Akasa Air and Star Air connecting NMIA to nine destinations across India. The airport will handle 15 scheduled departures on the first day,” said an NMIA spokesperson.“During the initial phase, NMIA will operate between 8 am and 8 pm, with up to 24 scheduled daily departures to 13 destinations and the capability to manage up to 10 aircraft movements per hour. From Feb 2026, operations are planned to progressively scale up to round-the-clock services,” the spokesperson added. “Passenger services from day one will be supported by Digi Yatra-enabled contactless processing at designated touchpoints, along with trained terminal staff across kerbside, check-in, security and boarding areas,” the spokesperson said. Conventional check-in counters too will be available for passengers not opting for Digiyatra. Retail and food and beverage offerings have been curated with a focus on affordability and local preferences, the airport said.In its initial phase, NMIA opens with terminal 1 and one operational runway; the terminal building has a capacity to handle 20 million passengers annually, but it is expected to touch that number before mid-2026. The terminal building can accommodate about 2-3 million passengers beyond its declared capacity. The new airport is 45-50 km from North Mumbai, 35-40 km from South Mumbai and 35-45 km from the eastern suburbs.

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KOLKATA: Foreign courts can hear divorce and maintenance proceedings of a marriage solemnised in India if one of the spouses resides in that country, the Calcutta high court has said while setting aside a lower court order putting an injunction on a UK district court order in favour of the wife.In its December 15 ruling, a division bench of justices Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya and Supratim Bhattacharya held that under the Hindu Marriage Act, it is specified a petition can be heard by “district court with the local limits” of the residence where a couple last resided. The bench clarified that though under a different section of the same law, “district court” means Indian courts and not foreign courts, “taken in its true spirit and in a liberal perspective”, the UK family court can have jurisdiction if prima facie the wife resides there and at least “the parties last resided together as spouses in the UK.”“It cannot be said outright that the judgment which might ultimately be passed in the divorce suit of the wife in the UK would be inconclusive in India,” the judges said.The couple got married in Kolkata on December 15, 2018. The husband first filed for divorce on Sept 4, 2024, at Alipore court. On October 10, 2024, the wife moved the UK court for divorce and the next day for maintenance. She said she had been residing in the UK since 2015 on student and work visas with occasional visits to India and they last stayed as a married couple in the UK.On May 16, 2025, the UK family court directed the husband to pay maintenance. However, on Nov 1, Alipore district court put an injunction on that order saying the wife cannot proceed with her case in the UK.The Alipore court reasoned that the husband had moved the divorce suit first and held that the UK court had no jurisdiction in the case as the wife was not a permanent resident of the country. It said the maintenance amount granted by the UK court was “onerous and oppressive” as it exceeded the earnings of the husband.The woman challenged the order in the high court which heldeven if the pleas were filed by the wife later, the husband filed a response and adduced evidence in the UK court. “Prima facie, it is not credible that the husband is not in a position to contest the wife’s divorce proceedings and alimony application in UK”, the high court said.

PALAKKAD: Even as the attack on the children’s Christmas carol group triggered political protests, parents of the children protested against the statement of BJP leader C Krishnakumar, who appeared to justify the attack.Krishnakumar claimed the group members were drinking and described the group as a criminal team that took a band set from the CPM area committee office. Talking to the media on Wednesday, the parents said the children were out caroling, as they do every year, when the incident occurred, and that the group comprised only children aged 10-15, with no adults present. They said both students and their families were affected by the incident, adding that Krishnakumar’s statement was even more distressing. They expressed their willingness to file a complaint over the mental anguish the children faced in the aftermath of the incident.In protest, DYFI announced that carols in protest would be held across 2,500 units in the district. Congress alleged that the attack was retaliation by BJP as it failed to gain support from the Christian community and described it as a deliberate attempt to disturb communal harmony. Police arrested an RSS worker, Ashwin Raj, in connection with the incident on Tuesday. The incident took place when the carol group, comprising children, was visiting the houses in the area on Sunday night. Police said the crime occurred in an area where the RSS is considered to have a strong presence. As per the complaint, the accused confronted the carol group and destroyed their band set and other articles. The official report stated he was intoxicated when he attacked the children.

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday congratulated Isro after its ‘Bahubali’ rocket LVM-M6 successfully placed US’s new-generation BlueBird Block-2 communication satellite, weighing 6,100 kg, into orbit. It was the heaviest payload to be placed into the low earth orbit (LEO) in LVM3’s launch history — the previous heaviest was the LVM3-M5 communication satellite 03, weighing about 4,400 kg, that was placed into the geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) on November 2.“A significant stride in India’s space sector. The successful LVM3-M6 launch, placing the heaviest satellite ever launched from Indian soil, the spacecraft of USA, BlueBird Block-2, into its intended orbit, marks a proud milestone in India’s space journey,” PM Modi said in a post on X.The mission marks the 6th operational flight of the LVM3 launch vehicle. It also represents a significant leap in telecommunications technology, as the US payload is designed to provide high-speed 4G and 5G connectivity directly to smartphones.BlueBird Block-2 is the second important US satellite launch from India this year after the Indo-US joint mission’s NISAR, the world’s costliest (around $1.5 billion) and most advanced Earth-imaging satellite. As of late Dec 2025, Isro has launched at least 234 satellites for the US. Since 2015, when India launched the first commercial US satellites on board PSLV-C30, American satellites make up the largest portion of the total 434 foreign satellites launched by Isro, contributing significantly to the nearly $143 million in foreign exchange revenue generated by these launches.Space minister Jitendra Singh also congratulated Isro on the successful launch. “I think it is the moment of glory for the country. It has been possible because of the progress of the last 10 to 12 years (under the PM Narendra Modi-led government). Even though the American satellites were being launched from Sriharikota earlier as well, today’s launch has demonstrated to the world that we have the capacity to launch a satellite as heavy as 6,000 kgs,” he said. Placing a 6-tonne-class satellite into LEO is significant because payload mass has become a key indicator for constellation efficiency in the direct-to-device and hybrid satellite-terrestrial era. Heavier satellites enable higher payload consolidation, fewer orbital assets, simplified phasing, and lower per-user costs when serving mass-market connectivity. From an operator’s perspective, this reduces both capital intensity and operational complexity. India’s demonstrated ability to support such missions meaningfully alters how global satcom players model constellation architecture, insurance exposure, and launch diversification.Commenting on the broader significance, Subba Rao, president of Space Industry Association India, said: “This mission demonstrates that India is now part of the core commercial LEO deployment landscape. The importance lies not only in launch success, but in what it signals about India’s industrial readiness, reliability, and ability to support constellations at scale over time. That confidence is what global operators ultimately build programmes around.”Several industrial units from the Indian private industry have contributed significantly to LVM3 rocket success. Ananth Technologies Pvt Ltd (ATL), a long-standing partner of the Indian Space Programme, said, ‘It is proud to have contributed to this historic mission”. “ATL has been closely associated with the LVM3 programme and has delivered critical flight hardware, avionics systems, electronics, and precision subsystems that play a vital role in mission success,” a company statement said.

NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday slammed the Centre’s directions to states to impose a ban on granting new mining leases in the Aravalli range, calling it a “bogus attempt at damage control that will not fool anybody”Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh alleged that despite the fresh directive, “the Aravallis are not being saved, but are being sold out,” he said in a post on X.On Wednesday, the Union environment ministry directed states to impose a complete ban on new mining leases in the Aravallis and expand protected zones, describing it as a major step toward the “conservation and protection.” The directive aims to safeguard the Aravallis as a continuous geological ridge extending from Gujarat to the NCR and to end unregulated mining across the region.

The Centre’s order came after a public row over its new definition of the Aravallis, which classifies an “Aravalli Hill” as a landform with an elevation of at least 100 metres above its surrounding terrain, and an “Aravalli Range” as a cluster of two or more such hills within 500 metres of each other. However, the former Union environment minister dismissed the move as insufficient, arguing that the core issue remains unaddressed. “These are pious proclamations but the dangerous 100m+ redefinition of the Aravallis — rejected by the Forest Survey of India, the Supreme Court-mandated Central Empowered Committee, and the Supreme Court’s amicus curiae — remains unchanged,” said Ramesh.He has repeatedly said that the redefinition being adopted by the Centre has been opposed by the Forest Survey of India, the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) of the Supreme Court, and the apex court’s amicus curiae.The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre rejected the charge that the new definition weakens environmental safeguards, maintaining that more than 90 per cent of the Aravalli region remains protected and that the revised definition does not relax mining controls, reported PTI.In an earlier post, Ramesh had accused the government of misleading the public on the issue. “It is by now abundantly clear that the Union Minister of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change is being economical with the truth on the Aravallis issue and is misleading the public,” he said.He also questioned why the PM Modi-led government is pushing through what he described as a “fatally flawed” redefinition of the Aravallis despite widespread expert opposition.