- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
A SCHOOL teacher in Ahmedabad has been detained by the police after a video of him ruthlessly beating a student went viral. In a CCTV footage from Madhav Public School, the teacher, identified as Abhishek Patel, is seen twisting the arm of a student, pulling his hair and slamming him…
HYUNDAI Motor India Ltd is expected to launch its much-awaited ₹250 billion (£2.27bn) initial share-sale for public subscription on October 14 by its South Korean parent, people familiar with the development said on Thursday. This would be the largest initial public offering (IPO) in India after LIC's initial share sale…
ACTOR Triptii Dimri’s spokesperson has stated that she "fully honoured her professional obligations" related to promoting her upcoming film, "Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video". The clarification comes after event organisers in Jaipur accused the actor of skipping an appearance, with a group of women alleging they paid ₹ 550,000…
SIX-TIME world champion boxer M C Mary Kom on Thursday waded into the debate surrounding wrestler Vinesh Phogat's Olympic heartbreak for being overweight, saying that to be within the prescribed limit is an individual responsibility. The 42-year-old mother of four, who was India's first woman boxer to win an Olympic…
THE SUPREME COURT on Thursday effectively halted the police probe into the alleged illegal confinement of two women at spiritual leader Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev's Isha Foundation ashram at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. Transferring to itself a habeas corpus petition of a man alleging that his two daughters were held captive…
ROHIT SHARMA believes that he has played enough cricket to trust his own judgements, like he did in what will be seen as a potentially grammar changing Test match against Bangladesh. India won the match at Kanpur by seven wickets despite the game losing more than 220 overs due to…
PAYAL KAPADIA, director of the Cannes Grand Prix award-winning film "All We Imagine As Light," has been named to the Time100 Next 2024 list. The list, created by Time magazine, recognizes influential figures from various fields. Kapadia's film made history by becoming the first Indian film to compete at the…
BILLIONAIRE Gautam Adani's group will supply clean energy to power Google's cloud services and operations in India, the two firms said on Thursday. Adani group will supply 61.4 megawatt of electricity from a new solar-wind hybrid project located at its 30 gigawatt (GW) Khavda renewable energy park in Gujarat. Google…
ACTOR-POLITICIAN Kangana Ranaut courted a new controversy on Wednesday with a social media post about Mahatma Gandhi and former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. The actor, who previously faced backlash for her comments on the farmers' protests, paid homage to Shastri on his 120th birth anniversary through a post that…
A DOCTOR was shot dead inside a nursing home in southeast Delhi's Kalindi Kunj area in the early morning hours, police said on Thursday. The accused, who appeared to be juveniles, came for treatment and shot Javed Akhtar, a Unani practitioner (BUMS), around 1.45 am, they said. According to a…
