- Monday, March 03, 2025
SRI LANKAN police have been ordered to go on the offensive and use live ammunition to prevent “anarchy”, a top official said on Wednesday (11) after another night of sporadic arson attacks. Police say eight people have died since Monday (9), when frustration at a dire economic crisis erupted into…
AN Indian American material scientist has been named the inaugural dean of Stanford University’s new school on climate change and sustainability. Dr Arun Majumdar is an internationally recognised expert in advanced energy systems, new materials, electrical grids, and renewable energy. He will assume the new position on June 15, the…
AFGHANISTAN’s Rashid Khan claimed four wickets as Gujarat Titans became the first team to qualify for the IPL play-offs with a 62-run thrashing of Lucknow Super Giants. Indian opener Shubman Gill made 63 off 49 deliveries to steer Gujarat to 144 for four on Tuesday (10) after electing to bat first on…
Oscar-winner Riz Ahmed and Oscar-nominated actress Jessie Buckley have joined forces to headline Christos Nikou’s English-language feature film debut Fingernails. A leading publication reports that FilmNation is launching sales on the project at the Cannes Film Festival, set to commence next week. FilmNation is co-repping U.S. rights with CAA Media Finance and WME…
Popular Indian actress Hina Khan is set to grace the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival yet again. She made her Cannes debut in 2019 when she joined the team of her film Lines to launch the poster of her film. The actress will now be attending the festival for the poster launch…
BRITAIN’s Emma Raducanu will make a first competitive appearance in front of a home crowd since her remarkable triumph at the US Open as she entered next month’s Women’s Tour Association event in Birmingham. The teenager’s only previous WTA tournament in Britain was in Nottingham last year prior to her…
A top government adviser on extremism has urged to ban Britain’s biggest far-right organisation Patriotic Alternative for racially abusing the England footballer Raheem Sterling, according to a report. Dame Sara Khan, the first counter-extremism commissioner and No 10’s independent adviser for social cohesion and resilience has made the demand as footage…
Starring Vidya Balan in the lead role, the thriller film Neeyat commenced its first shooting schedule in the UK on Tuesday. The Prime Video movie reunites Balan with her Shakuntala Devi (2020) director Anu Menon. Balan took to Instagram and posted a picture with Menon and the film’s producer Vikram Malhotra of Abundantia Entertainment. “Excited…
Filmmaker Mohit Suri on Tuesday announced that his upcoming film Ek Villain Returns, featuring John Abraham and Arjun Kapoor as male leads, will now arrive in theatres on July 29, 2022. The film, which is a sequel to Suri’s 2014 thriller Ek Villain, was earlier scheduled to hit the marquee on July 8. Ek Villain Returns will…
Santoor maestro and co-composer of several memorable Bollywood film songs for the late filmmaker Yash Chopra, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma passed away on Tuesday in Mumbai. He was 84. Reportedly, he had been suffering from kidney-related issues for the last six months and was on dialysis. He died due to cardiac arrest,…
