- Saturday, March 01, 2025
RUSSIA’s state-owned diamond miner said that it cannot make a payment on a eurobond after Washington imposed blocking sanctions, the Interfax news agency reported. The company said that for “technical reasons” it cannot pay a $11.6 million coupon on a dollar-denominated eurobond, the agency reported. The US Treasury on Thursday…
British prime minister Boris Johnson has agreed to a request from his chancellor Rishi Sunak for a review to determine whether he had stuck to the rules on ministerial declarations following criticism over Sunak’s family financial arrangements. Sunak said on Sunday he had written to the prime minister asking him…
Netflix has acquired the much-anticipated techno-medieval graphic novel adaptation Nimona after the project was scrapped following the shutdown of Blue Sky Studios amid Disney’s acquisition of Fox’s entertainment assets. The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz (Greta), Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal), and Eugene Lee Yang (Spring Bloom) in the voice cast. The adaptation of…
After impressing critics and audiences with his power-packed performance in the recent release Salute (2022), Malayalam superstar Dulquer Salmaan will next be seen in an upcoming Telugu-language film. The producers announced the official title of the film on the occasion of Sri Rama Navami on April 10. The film has been titled Sita Ramam…
Global star Priyanka Chopra has urged world leaders to stand up and deal with the “humanitarian and refugee crisis” emerging out of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Chopra, who is the goodwill ambassador of UNICEF, took to her Instagram and posted a video, appealing to the world leaders to support the crisis in Eastern…
ACCLAIMED Asian director Lolita Chakrabarti and her team were celebrating on Monday (11), after the West End play, Life of Pi, scooped five awards at the prestigious Laurence Olivier awards the previous night (10). The stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s Booker Prize-winning novel has won the Best Actor accolade for Hiran…
Sri Lanka’s prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa pleaded for “patience” Monday as thousands continued to take to the streets to protest his family’s rule, with public anger at a fever pitch over the country’s crippling economic crisis. Sri Lanka’s 22 million residents have seen weeks of power blackouts and severe shortages…
AMERICAN president Joe Biden and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi held a virtual summit on Monday (11), clouded by US frustration over New Delhi’s neutral stance on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The South Asian nation has tried to walk a tightrope between maintaining relations with the West and avoiding alienating…
CONSERVATIVE MP Imran Ahmad Khan was on Monday (11) convicted of sexually assaulting a schoolboy in a 14-year-old case. The assault took place in January 2008 when Khan was 34 years old and prior to him becoming an MP. Southwark Crown Court heard that Khan, now 48, tried to force…
SABINA NESSA’S sister Jebina Islam has claimed the young primary school teacher’s ethnicity may be why her death did not get the media coverage Sarah Everard did. Everard, 33, a white London resident who worked as a marketing executive, was killed by serving police officer Wayne Couzens on March 3…
