- Tuesday, March 04, 2025
THE 260-year-old Gold State Coach will lead a procession in London on Sunday (5) for the first time in two decades as part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, according to a report. It carried a young Queen Elizabeth II from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey on her coronation day…
Harry Kane is determined to break Wayne Rooney’s England goal-scoring record before this year’s World Cup finals in Qatar, but the Tottenham Hotspur striker said the team’s performance would always take precedence over his pursuit of personal landmarks. The 28-year-old needs five more goals to eclipse Rooney’s mark of 53,…
AS MANY AS 800,000 people in England could benefit from a new digital app projected as an effective alternative to sleeping pills for insomnia patients, the national institute for health and care excellence (NICE) has said. Now, NHS doctors can prescribe the Sleepio app, which uses artificial intelligence to provide…
Sri Lanka’s top political leaders on Friday agreed on some of the provisions of the controversial 21st Amendment to the Constitution aimed at empowering Parliament over the executive president during the second round of meeting with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe’s office said a general consensus was reached…
The week-long celebration over His Holiness Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati’s 70th birth anniversary was inaugurated on Friday (3) at a star-studded event held on the banks of River Ganges. Besides saints and government luminaries, noted personalities from Bollywood, the Indian film industry, assembled on the stage at Parmarth Niketan Ashram in…
SCOTLAND YARD’S head of counter-terrorism policing, Neil Basu, said he was “disappointed” with the way the process for a new appointment which involved a promotion has been handled, and plans to seek an explanation from the Home Office, a UK media report has claimed. Basu, a Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner and…
Tech giant Google has collaborated with an NGO to launch a suicide hotline in Pakistan to tackle the rising number of suicides and mental health-related issues being reported in the country. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates, there are around 130,000 to 270,000 cases of attempted suicide being…
The Uttar Pradesh Police Saturday booked 500 people for rioting and violence in Kanpur that left 40 injured, official said, as an uneasy calm prevailed in the affected areas this morning. Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and order) Anand Prakash Tiwari said 18 people have been arrested so far over…
INDIA and Senegal are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations this year. Through their achievements and contributions to Senegal’s development, the Indian diaspora has created immense goodwill for India, vice president M Venkaiah Naidu has said as he attended a reception hosted by the community members…
SEVENTY-ONE per cent of Indians cannot afford a healthy diet and 1.7 million die every year due to diseases attributable to poor diet, according to a report released by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and Down to Earth magazine. The diseases attributable to dietary risk factors include respiratory ailments, diabetes,…
