- Thursday, January 23, 2025
ENGLAND beat Switzerland on penalties on Saturday (6) to keep their dreams of winning Euro 2024 alive as they advanced to a semi-final showdown with the Netherlands, who came from behind to defeat Turkey in the day’s other match. In Duesseldorf, England produced another late fightback as their quarter-final with…
DIRECTOR Nag Ashwin’s ambitious 3D spectacle Kalki 2898 AD has cruised past the £80 million mark in its worldwide box office earnings, the makers announced on Saturday. Touted as the most expensive film to be produced in India at a reported budget of £60 million, the mythological and sci-fi action…
KEIR STARMER, Britain’s new prime minister following Labour’s 2024 election victory, has appointed Rachel Reeves as the country’s first female chancellor of the exchequer and Angela Rayner as his deputy prime minister. Reeves, 45, a former Bank of England economist, aims to repair relations with the business community, while Rayner,…
INDIAN social media platform Koo is shutting down operations permanently, the company’s co-founder Mayank Bidawatka announced on Wednesday (3). Koo was initially launched to give an alternate option to users speaking different Indian languages and in a way act as rival to giant global platform X. The founders cited lack…
MORE than seven per cent of all deaths in 10 of India’s biggest cities are linked to air pollution, a large study said Thursday, leading researchers to call for action to save tens of thousands of lives a year. Smog-filled Indian cities, including the capital Delhi, suffer from some of…
INDIA'S external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Thursday (4) in Kazakhstan. The two agreed to increase talks to resolve border issues, according to a statement from New Delhi. India and China share a long Himalayan border that is poorly marked. Relations have been strained…
BRITISH defence secretary Grant Shapps lost his seat at Thursday’s parliamentary election, becoming the most senior Conservative cabinet member so far to be defeated in what is set to be a clear overall victory for the Labour Party. Shapps was defeated by Labour’s Andrew Lewin in the Welwyn Hatfield constituency…
SOJAN JOSEPH, a native of Kottayam district of Kerala, India, has made history by becoming the first person from the southern Indian state of Kerala to get elected to the British parliament. Contesting in the Ashford constituency in Kent, Joseph, a Labour Party candidate, triumphed over incumbent Damien Green of…
DUDLEY’s new Labour MP says being a frontline NHS worker helped show voters she was someone they could trust. Sonia Kumar regained Dudley for Labour by a majority of 1,900 to put another brick back in the red wall on a night when her party swept away their Tory opponents.…
KAVITA KRISHNAMURTHY has become an integral part of people’s lives with the stunning songs she has delivered across the decades. The timeless tracks like Pyaar Hua Chupke Se, Mera Piya Ghar Aaya, Dola Re Dola, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Hawa Hawai, Tu Hi Re and many more have turned…
