- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
A TOP adviser of Bangladesh's interim government on Monday said that deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina's extended stay in India will not hurt bilateral relations. Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain made the remarks when asked whether bilateral ties with India would be affected if Hasina's stay in India gets…
HINDENBURG Research's latest allegations have once again come to haunt the Adani Group's stocks. The US-based short-seller has alleged that a conflict of interest was preventing Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch from thoroughly probing the allegations against Adani group it had raised in January, 2023. In a blogpost, Hindenburg said…
AT LEAST seven people, including six women, were killed and 16 others injured in a stampede at Baba Siddheshwar Nath Temple in Bihar's Jehanabad district, an official said on Monday. The deceased have been identified as Pyare Paswan (30), Nisha Devi (30), Punam Devi (30), Nisha Kumari (21), and Sushila…
TELECOM czar Sunil Bharti Mittal's conglomerate will buy a 24.5 per cent stake in Britain's largest broadband and mobile company, BT Group, worth about $4 billion (£3.13bn). Bharti Global, the international investment arm of Bharti Enterprises, will buy 9.99 per cent stake in BT Group from Patrick Drahi's Altice immediately…
WHEN P R Sreejesh left for Paris Olympics to complete his "last dance" in India colours, three special sticks were part of his arsenal. One had his wife's name etched, and the other two were inscribed with the names of his two children. It was the wife stick that he…
RITESH AGARWAL has invested ₹8.3 billion (£77.46 million)through his Singapore-based entity Patient Capital in OYO's latest funding round. Post the equity dilution in the Series G funding, Agarwal's holdings will increase to 32.57 per cent from 29.97 per cent, sources told PTI. "Ritesh has invested to protect his ownership dilution…
AT THE 77th Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, Shah Rukh Khan, the first Indian film personality to receive the Pardo alla Carriera award, emphasised the importance of creative dissatisfaction. During a Q&A session, Khan advised the younger generation to avoid resting on their achievements and instead strive for continual innovation.…
BANGLADESHI police resumed patrols of the capital Dhaka on Monday, ending a weeklong strike that left a law and order vacuum following the abrupt ouster of autocratic ex-premier Sheikh Hasina. Officers vanished from the streets of the sprawling megacity of 20 million people last week after Hasina's resignation and flight…
A MAN along with three family members allegedly gang-raped a married woman here to avenge the perceived humiliation after his daughter eloped with the victim's brother, police said on Sunday (11). The accused also allegedly recorded the act on their mobile phones, they added. Although the incident took place on…
DOCTORS in government hospitals across several states halted elective services "indefinitely" on Monday to protest the rape and murder of a young medic in Kolkata. The 31-year-old's brutalised body was found bearing multiple injuries on Friday at the seminar hall of the state-run RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata, where she…
