- Friday, April 11, 2025
ALL crew members aboard the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero, including Indian nationals, are in good health and still on the vessel, the Iran embassy in India said on Monday (22). "All the crew members including the Indian nationals are in good health, they are still onboard the tanker," the embassy…
SEVERE floods and lightning have claimed the lives of more than 650 people across India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, officials said Monday (22) as the annual monsoon took its toll on the rainfed region. More than 10 million people in the South Asian countries have been affected by the deluge,…
A FRENCH television reporter and his crew were arrested on Monday (22) while filming protesters blockading a coal port in Australia's northeastern state of Queensland. Reporter Hugo Clément said he and his television crew from French public broadcaster France 2 were filming protesters blocking access to Indian conglomerate Adani Enterprise's…
INDIA launched a rocket into space on Monday (22) in an attempt to safely land a rover on the moon, the country's most ambitious mission yet in the effort to establish itself as a low-cost space power. If successful, the Rs 10-billion mission will allow Indian scientists to carry out…
BENGALURU-based Project Mishram is a seven-piece progressive Carnatic fusion band, which combines genres like rock, metal, jazz, reggae and electronic with Indian classical music. The line-up consists of Shivaraj Nataraj (vocals-beat-boxing), Pranav Swaroop BN (violin-vocals), Anirudh Koushik (flute), Sumant Nemmani (lead guitar), Srishankar Sundar (rhythm guitar), Ram Srinivas (bass) and…
EMBATTLED liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya's appeal in the UK High Court against his extradition order has been listed for a three-day hearing from February 11, 2020, the UK court said on Thursday (17). The 63-year-old former Kingfisher Airlines boss had won a reprieve earlier this month when a two-judge panel…
BOLLYWOOD actors play different kinds of roles on the big screen. For some roles, they have to speak in a particular accent because the characters are based out in a city or either hail from there. We have seen actors speaking in Punjabi accent, Gujarati accent, Delhi accent and of…
MUMBAI POLICE has arrested terrorist Dawood Ibrahim's nephew Rizwan Kaskar in connection with an extortion case, an official said Thursday (18). Rizwan Kaskar, the son of Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar, was arrested on Wednesday (17) night from the international airport here when he was trying to flee the country, the…
ONE of Bangladesh's main rivers breached an embankment, flooding a northern district and forcing thousands from their homes, an official said on Thursday (18), as the toll from monsoon rains in neighbouring India climbed to 97 in two flood-hit states. Several million people are living in camps and makeshift settlements…
THE World Court on Wednesday (17) ordered Pakistan to review the death penalty given in 2017 to former Indian navy commander Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav who was convicted of being a spy. The 16-judge panel said Pakistan has to provide an "effective review" of the case and added that a "continued…
