• Friday, April 04, 2025

Indian nurse stabbed to death in US

An Indian nurse has been killed outside a hospital in the US after she was stabbed multiple times and struck by a vehicle, in what police in South Florida are calling an incident of domestic dispute. Merin Joy, 26, who is from Kerala, was stabbed “multiple times” while leaving Coral…

Vidya Balan: I am glad that writers and directors have…

Vidya Balan is one of the most versatile actresses of Bollywood. From Parineeta to The Dirty Picture to Kahaani to Tumhari Sulu, she has played a variety of roles on the big screen effortlessly. Vidya’s next film is Shakuntala Devi which is getting a direct-to-digital release on Amazon Prime Video. We recently interacted with the actress and asked her…

Half of Mumbai’s slum residents have had coronavirus: study

Over half the people living in the slums of Mumbai have had the coronavirus, according to a city-commissioned study released Tuesday that raises fresh doubts about India’s official case numbers. India is already the third worst-hit country after the US and Brazil, with nearly 1.5 million cases though experts have…

India’s COVID-19 tally crosses 15-lakh mark

India's COVID-19 tally went past 15 lakh on Wednesday, two days after it crossed the 14-lakh mark, with 48,513 fresh cases recorded in a day while the recoveries surged to 9,88,029, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total coronavirus cases climbed to 15,31,669, while the country's death toll…

SpiceJet gets green light to fly to the UK

INDIA’s budget carrier SpiceJet has received the nod to operate flight services to the UK as an ‘Indian scheduled carrier’, said the company. The private airline recently got the approval to operate flights to the US as well. “We would like to inform you that in terms of the air services…

Five Rafale jets to land in India today, security tightened…

The first batch of five Rafale jets are scheduled to land at the Ambala air base here on Wednesday afternoon with police tightening the security around the air force station The squadron of Rafale jets will be stationed at the Ambala air base in Haryana The jets took off from…

Pandemic turns smartphones from luxury to must-have as India’s schools…

Kuldip Kumar, a farmer from northern India, sold his only cow to buy a smartphone so his children could keep up with lessons that shifted online when the coronavirus lockdown closed schools four months ago. Kumar was already in debt and the cow was his only asset. He sold it…

Air pollution ‘greatest risk’ to global life expectancy

Air pollution cuts life expectancy for every man, woman and child on Earth by nearly two years, according to data released Tuesday which experts said showed poor air quality is “the greatest risk to human health”. The Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) said that as the world races to find…

NHS set to pay child and family care costs of…

THE NHS has launched a ‘brilliant scheme’ offering financial support for the caring of children or family members of doctors returning to general practice. Qualified GPs rejoining the NHS or coming from abroad will now be able to claim up to £2,000 if “family responsibilities would be a barrier to…

Sri Lanka cricket announces premier league in August

Sri Lanka will resume top-level cricket with a new premier league tournament starting next month with the participation of 70 international players, the cricket board said Monday. Sri Lanka Cricket said the proposed 23-match Lanka Premier League (LPL) involving five teams will start on August 28 and end on September…