• Sunday, April 20, 2025

Manchester City, Arsenal knocked out of Champions League

IN a thrilling night of Champions League football, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich secured their spots in the semi-finals, thereby eliminating Manchester City and Arsenal respectively. Real Madrid triumphed in a dramatic penalty shootout, winning 4-3 against Manchester City after the match concluded 1-1 on the night, bringing the aggregate…

Post Office scandal is ‘unbelievable’: Former chief

Former Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton has said the Post Office Horizon IT scandal is ‘unbelievable’ and ‘terrible’. During Leighton’s term, between 2002 and 2009, the Post Office was a subsidiary of Royal Mail. “It’s unbelievable that it’s happened and I just wanted to say that I’m sorry that elements…

Drug shortage in UK worsened after Brexit: report

Patients in the UK and European Union are facing shortages of vital medicines such as antibiotics and epilepsy medication, research published Thursday found. The report by Britain’s Nuffield Trust think-tank found the situation had become a “new normal” in the UK and was “also having a serious impact in EU…

Army chief involved in jailing my wife, says Pakistan’s Imran…

PAKISTAN Tehreek-e-Insaf founder and jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has alleged that army chief General Asim Munir was directly responsible for the imprisonment of his wife Bushra Bibi, and the country is being ruled by law of the jungle. Bushra Bibi, 49, was convicted in a corruption case as…

Airtel to merge Sri Lanka operations with Dialog Axiata

BHARTI AIRTEL and Dialog Axiata are set to merge their Sri Lanka operations through an equity swap deal, a joint statement said on Thursday (18). Airtel Lanka’s turnover in financial year 2023 was £28.2 million and it contributed 0.21 per cent to Bharti Airtel’s overall business. “Dialog Axiata PLC ,…

Astronomers discover Milky Way’s heaviest known black hole

An international team of astronomers has made a significant discovery in the Milky Way: the heaviest known stellar black hole, named BH3. The black hole, found by analysing recent data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope, has a mass 33 times greater than that of the Sun and…

In India’s strife-torn Manipur, fear eclipses election fervour

AS INDIA heads to a general election, the streets of Manipur, a tiny state hit by ethnic strife since May last year, are largely quiet. Although Manipur and some other regions will be the first to vote in the seven-phase election starting on Friday, campaign meetings are being held behind…

Musk in India: Not just Tesla, Starlink & X also…

Billionaire Elon Musk is gearing up for a visit to India, targeting an electric vehicle plant in the country. But that’s not the only thing he will be discussing during his India visit. In addition to Tesla, Musk’s satellite internet company Starlink is expected to receive preliminary clearances to operate…

Debut ‘Miss AI’ beauty pageant to have virtual models as…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is taking over the world, firstly, it was developed to help humans make their work easy but, now they will be used to create a complete parallel AI world. The world’s first ‘Miss AI’ beauty pageant will feature AI-generated models and influencers competing for a prize of…

South Africa wine farmers ‘fight back’ to adapt to climate…

At a wine farm in South Africa, dry and uprooted grapevines are piled at the base of a sloping stretch of brown fallow land. Much of the vineyard is undergoing replanting to adapt to climate change, which is expected to bring rarer yet more intense rainfall to this wine-producing region.…