- Monday, April 21, 2025
ACTOR Elisabeth Olsen will join Julia Roberts in the upcoming Warner Bros thriller “Panic Carefully”. Directed by Sam Esmail, the film reunites Roberts with Esmail, with whom she previously worked on “Homecoming”, “Gaslit”, and Netflix’s “Leave the World Behind”. The plot details for “Panic Carefully” remain undisclosed, but the movie…
ALLU ARJUN’S “Pushpa 2: The Rule” has set a new benchmark in Indian cinema, earning ₹1.75 billion (£16.20m) on its opening day, as reported by Sacnilk. This record-breaking start has dethroned SS Rajamouli's RRR, which previously held the title of the biggest opener with ₹1.33 billion (12.31m) on day one.…
AUSTRALIAN Mitchell Starc made the pink ball talk for his maiden five-wicket haul before Nitish Reddy's fearless approach pushed India to 180 all out on day one of the day-night Test here on Friday. Having reduced India to 82 for four at tea, Australia took the remaining six wickets at…
THE RESERVE BANK OF INDIA on Friday kept its key interest rate unchanged citing inflation risks, but cut the Cash Reserve Ratio that banks are required to park with the central bank, boosting money with lenders to support a slowing economy. With India's GDP seeing a sharper-than-anticipated dip in the…
RAJYA SABHA chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday said security staff had recovered a wad of ₹500 currency notes from the seat allotted to Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi, leading to an uproar in the House. While Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge said the chairman should not have named the member…
SEVERAL Opposition MPs led by the Congress on Friday held a protest march inside Parliament complex on the Adani issue, wearing black masks that read "Modi Adani bhai bhai". The protest saw several leaders from some of the INDIA bloc parties marching, holding a copy of the Constitution and raising…
A 20-YEAR-OLD Delhi University student was arrested for allegedly murdering his parents and sister over domestic differences and a property dispute, police said. The accused, Arjun Tanwar, killed his family members with a knife while they were asleep at their residence in Delhi's Neb Sarai around 5am on Wednesday. To…
A VERBAL battle took place in the Parliament on Thursday after BJP MP Nishikant Dubey accused Rahul Gandhi of being a "traitor of the highest order" having links with "some agencies of America" and billionaire George Soros. The Congress party strongly condemned the attack and called out Dubey for using…
A COURT in Amritsar on Thursday sent former Khalistani terrorist Narain Singh Chaura, who opened fire at Shiromani Akali Dal leader Sukhbir Singh Badal outside the Golden Temple on Wednesday, to three-day police remand, officials said. Chaura (68), whose bid on the Akali leader's life was foiled by alert Punjab…
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday successfully launched the Proba-3 mission onboard a PSLV-C59 rocket, a solar experiment undertaken by the European Space Agency. Around 18 minutes after lift-off, the two satellites were placed into the 'right orbit', said ISRO Chairman S Somanath. The Proba-3 (Project for Onboard Autonomy)…
