- Thursday, November 21, 2024
THE MADRAS High Court on Tuesday restrained the Music Academy from conferring an award named after legendary vocalist MS Subbulakshmi on well-known Carnatic music singer T M Krishna, following a plea by her grandson. Justice G Jayachandran passed the order on a suit filed by V Srinivasan, challenging the conferment…
FORMER all-rounder Shane Watson has advised the Australian team to avoid getting into confrontations with Virat Kohli in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, as he feels such provocations brings the best out of him. Going through a lean run of form, Kohli has enjoyed great success in Australia in the past and…
ELECTRIC vehicle manufacturers have called for slashing of goods and services tax (GST) on batteries and charging services to keep the industry competitive and boost customer adoption. At the sidelines of FICCI National Conference on EVs in New Delhi, FICCI Electric Vehicle Committee Chair Sulajja Firodia Motwani also stressed enhancing…
RAKESH ROSHAN’S 1995 film “Karan Arjun”, featuring Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan as reincarnated brothers, is set to be re-released on November 22, just ahead of its 30th anniversary. The filmmaker described the movie as “the story of a mother's belief which unfolds like a fairytale.” Over the years,…
CONGRESS president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi and other party leaders paid floral tributes to Indira Gandhi at her memorial 'Shakti Sthal' in New Delhi on her birth anniversary on Tuesday. Rahul Gandhi recalled that it is from his grandmother that he learnt that real strength is to fearlessly walk…
ISRO's latest communication satellite, GSAt-N2 that was launched by Space X from Cape Canaveral in the US, has successfully been placed into the orbit, the space agency's commercial arm NSIL said. The 4,700 kg GSAT-N2 High-throughput (HTS) satellite has been injected into the desired orbit, NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) said…
INDIA and Italy unveiled an ambitious five-year strategic action plan outlining specific initiatives in key sectors of defence, trade, clean energy and connectivity following extensive talks between prime minister Narendra Modi and his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni. The action plan 2025-29 identified 10 specific pillars for advancing bilateral engagement that…
HUNDREDS of people defied a curfew to stage demonstrations in Manipur state over the weekend and 23 were arrested for violence as tensions between two ethnic communities flared up again. These are the reasons behind the violence in the border state. How did the violence begin? On May 3, 2023,…
TWO masked men broke into Britain's royal Windsor Castle estate last month and stole two vehicles from a barn, the Sun newspaper reported on Monday. King Charles and his wife Camilla were not in the estate at the time of the incident but Prince William and his family were believed…
RESERVE BANK OF INDIA (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das is likely to get a second extension, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. This will be an unprecedented move that would make him the longest-serving central bank chief since the 1960s. Das was one of the most trusted…
