- Wednesday, April 09, 2025
A couple of months ago, acclaimed filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali had announced that after completing his upcoming directorial Gangubai Kathiawadi, he would next helm a film called Baiju Bawra. Ever since he officially announced the movie on Twitter, several names have been linked to it. The latest we hear that Bhansali is…
FOLLOWING the outbreak of the COVID-19 in the US, which has claimed over 77,000 lives in the country, a new legislation has been introduced in the US congress to offer the 40,000 unused green cards to foreign medical professionals. The Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act would allow for recapturing green cards that…
ORGANISERS TAKE EVENT ONLINE AMID ONGOING VIRUS LOCKDOWN RESTRICTIONS by S NEERAJ KRISHNA LIKE most global events, this year’s Jaipur Literary Fest (JLF) was cancelled due to the pandemic. But to ensure some cerebral stimulation in these mind-numbing days, organisers took the festival online with their ‘Brave New World’ series.…
RESIDENTS near the LG Polymers plant at RR Venkatapuram village, Visakhapatnam in Southern India have staged a protest on Saturday (9) demanding immediate closure of the plant. High tension prevailed at the plant following the protest. The protesters placed two bodies of the dead in front of the factory main…
RUCHI GHANASHYAM retired as the Indian high commissioner to the UK early this month in an unusually discreet way given the constraints related to the coronavirus lockdown, bidding farewell to her team at the India House in London virtually over a conference call. However, there has been little impact on…
BRITAIN plans to introduce a 14-day mandatory quarantine for most international arrivals, reports said on Saturday (9), amid growing pressure on the government to relax virus lockdown measures. It comes as the UK, which has the world’s second highest coronavirus death toll after the US, cautiously charts a way forward…
AS India enters the last week of its official lockdown imposed to contain the spread of the COVID-19, the country reported nearly 60,000 cases as on Saturday (9). India reported its first case of infection in the Southern state of Kerala on January 30. The death toll due to the…
INDIA has ramped up output of an anti-malarial drug hailed by the US president Donald Trump as a ‘game-changer’ in the fight against COVID-19, even as its pharmaceutical industry struggles to make other key medicines in a lockdown. Drug companies have seen demand for hydroxychloroquine soar since March when Trump’s…
Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Platforms has again wooed investors from the US. Tech fund Vista Equity Partners has invested $1.5 billion in the digital arm of Ambani’s Reliance Industries for 2.3 per cent stake, the company said on Friday (8). Vista’s investment values Jio Platforms at $65 billion. Jio…
The UK on Friday (8) paid tributes to an estimated 87,000 Indian martyrs who had fought as part of the British Army as it observed a two-minute silence to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day. With about 2.5 million men, the Indian Army of the Second World…
