• Monday, March 10, 2025

Extortion: Enforcement Directorate official under CBI lens

THE Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has searched the premises of an assistant director of the ED in Shimla, who managed to give a slip to the agency during a trap operation, officials said. The assistant director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) posted at Shimla and his brother Vikas Deep,…

Anupam Kher, Hansal Mehta spar over ‘The Accidental Prime Minister’…

THE PASSING away of former prime minister Manmohan Singh reignited discussions around the 2019 film “The Accidental Prime Minister”. The movie, starring Anupam Kher as Singh and Akshaye Khanna as Sanjay Baru, faced renewed criticism after journalist Vir Sanghvi labelled it “one of the worst Hindi movies ever made” in…

Chennai student sexual assault: Court wants special team to probe…

THE MADRAS High Court on Saturday directed constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the alleged sexual assault of a woman student in the Anna University campus in Chennai recently. All three members of the SIT will be women police officers. The court also directed the state government…

Reliance acquires cancer care platform Karkinos Healthcare

BILLIONAIRE Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries has acquired technology-driven and oncology-focused healthcare platform Karkinos, which is currently facing insolvency proceedings, for ₹3.75 billion (£34.93m), the firm said on Saturday. Reliance Strategic Business Ventures (RSBVL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of India's most valuable company, completed the acquisition of Karkinos Healthcare Pvt Ltd with…

Goodbye, my bhai: Malaysian prime minister’s heartfelt tribute to Manmohan…

MALAYSIAN prime minister Anwar Ibrahim wrote a moving tribute to Manmohan Singh Friday (27), recalling how the Indian leader offered scholarships for his children while he was in prison. On X, he described the former prime minister, who died Thursday, as “the midwife of India’s emergence as one of the…

Kashmir: Stranded tourists find shelter in mosque amid heavy snowfall

IN A heartwarming display of Kashmiri hospitality, locals in Gund, on the Srinagar-Sonamarg highway, opened the doors of a mosque to shelter a group of travellers stranded due to heavy snowfall. A dozen tourists from Punjab found themselves caught in the snowfall on Friday while returning from the Sonamarg area,…

Payal Kapadia’s ‘All We Imagine As Light’ to make OTT…

FILMMAKER Payal Kapadia’s critically-acclaimed feature film “All We Imagine as Light” is set to release digitally on Disney+ Hotstar from January 3, 2025, the streaming platform announced Friday. The widely-loved film had a limited theatrical release in September in India. “Baahubali” star Rana Daggubati had acquired the exclusive rights to…

India vs Australia: Nitish Reddy’s gutsy maiden ton keeps India…

NITISH REDDY, an unknown entity in red ball cricket before the start of Border-Gavaskar series, virtually bailed India out with his dogged maiden Test century in Melbourne on Saturday, severely denting Australia's hopes of winning the Boxing Day contest. Reddy's unbeaten 105 took India to 358 for nine, still 116…

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh cremated with full state honours

THE MORTAL remains of former prime minister Manmohan Singh were consigned to flames at the Nigambodh Ghat in New Delhi on Saturday amid the chanting of religious hymns. The funeral pyre was lit by his eldest daughter Upinder Singh. The last rites were performed in the presence of president Droupadi…

Cold wave in several parts of north India

SEVERAL parts of north India continued to be in the grip of intense cold wave conditions on Thursday with minimum temperatures settling several degrees below the freezing point in some cities of Kashmir valley. Weather was mostly dry across Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand during the last 24 hours. Punjab, Haryana…