- Thursday, February 20, 2025
THE PRIME accused in the rape of a minor girl in Assam's Nagaon district drowned in a pond after escaping from police custody on Saturday morning, police said. The villagers of Borbheti, the family home of the accused, have decided not to participate in his funeral prayers and nor allow…
DESCRIBING the deity of the ancient Dhakeswari Temple here as a "mother to all humans", a priest of the revered shrine said several Hindus, Muslims and others from the local community had come together to guard it soon after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh. The centuries-old…
VETERAN India opener Shikhar Dhawan announced his retirement from all forms of cricket two years after he last donned the national jersey, saying that he leaves the scene a content man after representing the country in all three formats. The 38-year-old made his international debut in 2010 in an ODI…
THE Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA) on Friday said it welcomes the findings and recommendations in the Justice Hema Committee report and was in favour of implementing them. While welcoming the report, AMMA general secretary Sidhique also said that he and the association were disappointed with the general remarks…
PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday to sit down for talks with Russia to end the war in Ukraine and offered to act as a friend to help bring peace as the two leaders met in wartime Kyiv. The first visit by an Indian prime…
AMAZON Prime Video docuseries "Angry Young Men" that traces the journey of the legendary screenwriters of 1970s Hindi cinema - Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, also throws light on the lives of the other members of the two families. Javed Akhtar's son Farhan Akhtar says he was very upset when…
ACTOR Varun Dhawan has announced his participation in the sequel to the 1997 film "Border”, which originally achieved significant box office success. Dhawan will star alongside Sunny Deol in the new film, directed by Anurag Singh and produced by JP Dutta and Bhushan Kumar. Dhawan shared the news on Instagram,…
SPINNER Kuldeep Yadav has revealed that the death of Australian legend Shane Warne two years ago felt like the loss of a family member to him as he always believed that there was a strong connection between them. Kuldeep, who is on a short family trip in Australia, visited the…
STAR Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has been named as one of the accused in connection with an alleged murder that took place during the recent protests and violence in Bangladesh which left hundreds dead. The 37-year-old former Bangladesh captain, a former lawmaker in the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime,…
AT LEAST 27 people were killed and 16 others injured after an Indian tourist bus veered off the highway and fell 150 metres into the fast-flowing Marsyangdi River in central Nepal on Friday, authorities said. The bus from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh was heading towards Nepal's capital Kathmandu from the…
