- Monday, March 03, 2025
A PIZZA shop owner has been found guilty of murdering his wife in Bromsgrove in 2020, and two of his brothers guilty of assisting an offender. Nezam Salangy had reported his 28-year-old wife Zobaidah missing but a police investigation discovered that he had murdered her and, with the help of…
THE INITIAL public offering of the state-run Life Insurance Corporation of India was subscribed 50 per cent, hours after the issue opened on Wednesday (4). India’s government is selling 221 million shares in a price band of Rs 902 (£9.44) to Rs 949 (£9.93). At the upper end of the…
INDIA and Canada on Wednesday (4) discussed expansion of a bilateral air service agreement that will allow more flights between the two countries. Union aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, who is on a nine-day visit to the US and Canada, met Canadian transport minister Omar Alghabra on Wednesday. “I personally thanked…
INDIA registered about 475,000 more total deaths in 2020 than the previous year, government data released months ahead of schedule on Tuesday (3) showed, as the World Health Organization readies its estimates of excess Covid-19 deaths whose methodology New Delhi has opposed. Some experts estimate India’s actual Covid death toll is as…
SALARIES in Britain’s financial sector have surged in recent months, widening inequality amid the nation’s cost-of-living crisis, a study showed on Wednesday (4). Average monthly pay in the industry jumped 31 per cent in February from December 2019, propelled by high-earners, the Institute for Fiscal studies (IFS) said in a…
Renowned filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, whose filmography includes such memorable films as Masoom (1983), Mr India (1987), Bandit Queen (1997), Elizabeth (1998), and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), on Tuesday said India has to use cinema as a soft power if it has to win the “minds and hearts of the future generations” globally. The 76-year-old filmmaker said that India and China…
Wading into the ongoing ‘national language row’ that erupted after Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn reacted to Kannada actor Kiccha Sudeep’s statement about Hindi no longer being a national language,” well-known singer Sonu Nigam said, “Let’s not divide the people and country further.” At a recent event for FICCI Flo, Nigam said, “Nowhere in the…
Last seen in Yash Raj Films’ Thugs of Hindostan (2018) alongside Amitabh Bachchan and Fatima Sana Shaikh, Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan is presently waiting for the release of his much-anticipated film Laal Singh Chaddha. Also starring Kareena Kapoor Khan in the lead role, Laal Singh Chaddha is the official remake of the cult Hollywood film Forrest Gump (1994) starring Tom Hanks…
While his daughter, Sara Ali Khan, is busy delivering one hit after another, Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan on Tuesday said that he is concerned about the future of his elder son, Ibrahim Ali Khan. Ibrahim, who is Khan’s son from his first wife Amrita Singh, is quite popular on social media. There…
RECKITT posted a revenue growth of 5.6 per cent in the first quarter of the year, driven mainly by a rise in its product prices. “We have made a strong start to the year… despite a challenging operating environment”, company CEO Laxman Narasimhan said, but the maker of the Dettol…
