- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
KOTAK MAHINDRA BANK has announced that it will be acquiring foreign lender Standard Chartered Bank's ₹41 billion (£373.77m) personal loan portfolio for an undisclosed sum. The private sector bank will be picking up the entire quantum of the foreign lender's personal loans classified as "standard advances" and the transaction is…
THE TRAILER for HBO Max's upcoming series "Dune: Prophecy", a prequel to Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films, has been released. The six-episode show, which premieres in India on JioCinema on November 18, takes viewers 10,000 years before the events of Frank Herbert's original novel. The series explores the story of two…
ACTORS Akshay Kumar, R Madhavan, and Ananya Panday will star in a film centered on the life of lawyer C Sankaran Nair, who fought against the British Empire in the 1920s. The film is based on the book "The Case That Shook the Empire" by Raghu Palat and Pushpa Palat.…
AFTER receiving multiple death threats from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, actor Salman Khan has bought a new bulletproof SUV, according to media reports. The Bollywood star is importing Nissan Patrol SUV from Dubai, priced ₹20 million (£182,325.44), as it is not available in India, according to Bollywood Society. He had…
RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin on Friday said it is difficult to specify a timeline for ending the prolonged war in Ukraine but asserted that his country will win. He also appreciated Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s concern over the situation. Days ahead of the 16th BRICS Summit to be hosted…
CANADA'S minister of foreign affairs Mélanie Joly on Friday (18) said the remaining Indian diplomats in the country are “clearly on notice” after Canada named the Indian High Commissioner in Ottawa as a person of interest in the assassination of a Sikh separatist leader. Joly said the government would not…
NEARLY 82 years after the sinking of merchant ship SS Tilawa during the second world war, the great-grandson of a drowned passenger made physical contact with a maritime artefact of silver that was salvaged in 2017 from the wreck-site near Seychelles. Emile Solanki, who founded tilawa1942.com and lives in Canada,…
SENIOR AAP leader and former Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain walked out of the Tihar Jail Friday evening, hours after a city court granted him bail in a money laundering case. Delhi chief minister Atishi and senior Aam Aadmi Party leaders, including Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh, received Jain, who…
RESERVE BANK governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday said that an interest rate cut at this stage would have been "premature" and "very very risky" as the retail inflation is still high. Refusing to give any indications about rate cuts in future, the governor said the central bank would take action…
INDIAN star PV Sindhu bowed out with a quarterfinal loss to Paris Olympics bronze-winner Gregoria Tunjung as the country's campaign came to an end in the Denmark Open badminton tournament here on Friday. The 29-year-old Sindhu went down 13-21, 21-16, 9-21 in a nearly hour-long clash. The world number 8…
