- Saturday, March 01, 2025
Sri Lanka’s stock market halted trading after a nearly 13 per cent plunge Monday as the island nation’s beleaguered government faces new pressure to resign from influential Buddhist leaders over a crippling economic crisis. The country’s worst downturn since independence in 1948 has brought widespread hardships to its 22 million…
Pope Francis urged Sri Lankan authorities on Monday to reveal who was behind the country’s 2019 Easter bombings in an attack the island’s Catholics suspect was a plot to propel president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to power. While meeting with a delegation of over 60 victims of the Easter Sunday attacks on…
RELIGIOUS freedom has deteriorated “significantly” in India under the Hindu nationalist government, a US commission said Monday (25) as it again recommended targeted sanctions over abuses. It was the third straight year that the US Commission on International Religious Freedom asked that India be placed on a list of “countries…
Virat Kohli deserves more respect and will fight his way out of an alarming slump which hit a new low when he suffered a second successive golden duck in the IPL, fellow cricket stars say. It is the first time in the Indian’s stellar career that he has got out…
OUTSPOKEN counterterrorism chief Neil Basu is believed to be in contention to head the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA). The Indian-origin assistant commissioner of the Met Police is likely to be interviewed for the role of director-general of the NCA later this week. The post became vacant after Dame Lynne…
Bollywood star Kangana Ranaut recounted her experience when she was “inappropriately touched” in her childhood years by a young man in her hometown in Himachal Pradesh. The actor talked about the incident on Ekta Kapoor’s reality show Lock Upp, on which she serves as a host after contestant and comic Munawar Faruqui…
Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar, who was most recently seen in Bachchhan Paandey (2022), on Monday announced that he has started filming for his next movie, a Hindi remake of the Tamil film Soorarai Pottru (2020). The remake will be directed by Sudha Kongara, who also helmed the Suriya-starrer original, which premiered on Prime Video in…
Skipper KL Rahul’s unbeaten 103 and disciplined bowling helped Lucknow Super Giants to a resounding win over IPL powerhouse Mumbai Indians who remain winless this season. Rahul’s second ton of this edition steered Lucknow to 168 for six, a total their bowlers defended by restricting Mumbai to 132-8 at the…
Virat Kohli’s second successive golden duck in the IPL saw Royal Challengers Bangalore crash to 68 all out and lose to Sunrisers Hyderabad by nine wickets on Saturday but the team insisted their star batter will bounce back. Kohli, who also fell to a first-ball duck against Lucknow Super Giants…
AN 18-year-old Indian high school student drowned in a pond in the US state of New Jersey after he went into the frigid water to retrieve a soccer ball for children playing nearby. Clinten G Ajit, who hailed from Niranam in Kerala, went into Hardcastle Pond in New Milford on…
