- Saturday, March 01, 2025
I AM so excited the Sikh festival of Vaisakhi is back this week after two years of Covid. Vaisakhi, also called Baisakhi, falls on Thursday (14). It is often mistaken as the Sikh New Year, but in actual fact, is a celebration of the founding of the Sikh community, the…
Veteran actor Saira Banu has opened up about her life after the death of her husband, legendary actor Dilip Kumar. Kumar left a huge void in millions of hearts after he passed away on 7 July, 2021, at the age of 98, after a long ailment. In her first interview after Kumar’s…
Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt are just a couple of hours away from exchanging vows. The couple, who started dating in 2018, will tie the nuptial knot on April 14 in an intimate ceremony. The two started dating on the sets of Dharma Productions’ much-awaited film Brahmastra. While the big-ticket film is yet to…
Bollywood stars Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, who have been dating each other for a couple of years now, are set to tie the nuptial knot on April 14. While the couple has been keeping mum about their wedding all this while, Kapoor’s mother Neetu Kapoor on Wednesday confirmed that the wedding is…
A Bangladesh court sentenced four extremists to hang Wednesday for their fatal machete attack on a celebrated writer, in a case that took nearly two decades to reach a verdict. The men brutally maimed award-winning author and language professor Humayun Azad outside a book fair in 2004 — the first…
Sri Lanka urged its citizens overseas to send home money to help pay for desperately needed food and fuel Wednesday after announcing a default on its $51 billion foreign debt. The island nation is in the grip of its worst economic crisis since independence in 1948, with severe shortages of…
PAKISTAN’S former prime minister Imran Khan on Tuesday (12) called for early general elections and emphasised that neither the Army nor any foreign country could safeguard democracy in the south Asian nation. In a video message posted on his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party’s official Twitter handle, days after he lost a…
Indian software giant Infosys said on Wednesday it was ‘transitioning’ out of the Russian market following the Ukraine war and conflict of interest accusations levelled at Rishi Sunak, the British chancellor. Sunak’s wife Akshata Murty holds a nearly $1 billion stake in the IT firm, which was founded by her…
VARIOUS Sikh organisations have formed a team to retrieve Sikh scriptures from a gurdwara in Odessa, Ukraine and shifted them to the United Kingdom. The items were brought to the UK by charity United Sikhs, which found a way to take them from Odesa to avoid them being destroyed in Russia’s invasion of the country.…
THE trade body for UK airlines warned home secretary Priti Patel in March that a lack of Border Force workers could spark massive passenger queues at terminals during Easter week, according to a media report. Airlines UK in a letter to Patel last month said that urgent action was needed…
