- Saturday, April 19, 2025
RATAN TATA, the former Tata Group chairman who put a staid and sprawling Indian conglomerate on the global stage with a string of high-profile acquisitions, has died, the Tata Group said in a statement late on Wednesday. He was 86. Tata, who ran the conglomerate for more than 20 years…
RATAN TATA was one of the world's most influential industrialists yet he never appeared on any list of billionaires. He controlled over 30 companies that operated in over 100 countries across six continents yet lived an unpretentious life. Ratan Naval Tata, who died at a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday night…
AS MALDIVES President Muhammad Muizzu is currently on his India, the main opposition took a swipe at his “naive and inexperienced” administration and said it has now realised that diplomacy cannot be conducted through “lies and deceit.” Former president Mohamed Nasheed echoed the sentiment, terming India and Maldives as natural…
TENNIS legend Leander Paes on Wednesday lamented the decline of Indian tennis, describing it as part of the "circle of life" while emphasising the need for patience. The Indian team endured a 0-4 defeat against Sweden in its Davis Cup World Group I tie recently, which relegated them to the…
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN is gearing up for his next feature, slated for a July 2026 release in US theatres. Following the success of “Oppenheimer”, Nolan will once again collaborate with Universal Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Actor Matt Damon, who worked with Nolan on “Interstellar” (2014) and “Oppenheimer” (2023), is…
THE ELECTION Commission on Wednesday dubbed the 'Haryana results unacceptable' statement of senior Congress leaders as "unheard in the rich democratic heritage" of the country and far from a legitimate part of free speech. In a letter to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, the EC said such remarks by party leaders…
A VISTARA aircraft flying from London to Delhi received a bomb threat on Wednesday and the plane landed safely at the Delhi airport, according to sources. The sources said that a piece of paper with the message about a bomb onboard the plane was found in one of the lavatories…
IT GIANT Infosys on Wednesday announced expansion of its partnership with Microsoft to help drive global customer adoption of generative AI and Microsoft's cloud platform Azure. Additionally, Infosys will also act as a strategic supplier to support cloud and AI workloads for Microsoft’s enterprise customers. It will infuse Microsoft’s generative…
A US scientist who won the 2024 Nobel physics prize for his pioneering work on artificial intelligence said Tuesday he found recent advances in the technology "very unnerving" and warned of possible catastrophe if not kept in check. John Hopfield, a professor emeritus at Princeton, joined co-winner Geoffrey Hinton in…
PAYAL KAPADIA’S film “All We Imagine as Light”, which won the Grand Prix at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, will be released in India this November. The Malayalam-Hindi film will also serve as the opening feature for the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival on October 18. The film was previously released…
