- Saturday, March 01, 2025
ACTOR Riz Ahmed has branded the UK government’s nationality and borders bill as “racist” and “immoral” in a video. Last week, Conservative MPs rejected amendments to the bill proposed by the House Of Lords which would have softened some of its measures. In a video posted on Twitter, Ahmed called for people to…
Applause Entertainment has joined forces with Ellipsis Entertainment and Mrs. Funnybones Movies to bankroll a new film together. The untitled project will be an adaptation of the short story ‘Salaam Noni Appa’ from Twinkle Khanna’s best-selling book, The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad. Commenting on the collaboration, Sameer Nair, CEO, Applause Entertainment…
TWITTER’S India-born CEO Parag Agrawal has told its worried employees that he doesn’t know “what direction this company will go in” once the social media giant is formally taken over by billionaire Elon Musk. The remarks by Agrawal, who took over the helm of Twitter just five months ago, came…
MANY companies are failing to spell out clearly whether they comply with modern slavery laws, Britain’s corporate governance regulator said, partly for fear of triggering a public backlash. Human rights have become an important consideration for investors putting billions of pounds into assets that tout their environmental, social and governance…
EUROPE will make sure that Russia’s “unprovoked and unjustified” aggression against Ukraine will be a “strategic failure”, though the Indo-Pacific region has started feeling the impact of the crisis, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday (25). She also said energising the partnership with New Delhi is…
INDIA and the European Union (EU) will formally restart in June the negotiations on the long-pending trade and investment agreements, a decision welcomed by prime minister Narendra Modi and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. The issue came up in wide-ranging talks between Modi and von der Leyen during…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on Monday (25) announced the setting up of an India-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC), a strategic mechanism to tackle key trade, economic and technological challenges. India is the second country after the US to have such…
A pop-up urban port for delivery drones — and one day, potentially flying taxis — launched Monday (25) in Britain, lifting a box of prosecco for a brief celebratory test flight hailed as groundbreaking. Air-One, a so-called “vertiport” for drones and future electric vehicles taking off and landing vertically, was…
Shikhar Dhawan smashed an unbeaten 88 for Punjab Kings who withstood a batting blitz from Chennai Super Kings’ Ambati Rayudu to seal an 11-run victory in a hard-fought IPL match on Monday. Dhawan, playing his 200th match in the Indian Premier League, smashed nine fours and two sixes in his…
Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi has joined Sidharth Malhotra and Shilpa Shetty on the cast of Rohit Shetty’s debut streaming show India Police Force. The project was officially announced last week, with Malhotra as the male lead, who will play a Delhi Police officer. Directed and produced by Rohit Shetty, the action series has…
