- Saturday, March 01, 2025
VERSATILE actor Sai Ketan Rao has mixed up Hindi and Telugu projects across film, television, and the web space with effortless ease. This has resulted in memorable turns in diverse projects that have shown off his impressive range as a performer. His recent projects included a star-making turn in popular…
MODEL-TURNED-ACTRESS Muskan Verma appeared in adverts and small roles in TV shows before making her big breakthrough with a starring role in acclaimed web series Inspector Avinash, which was headlined by seasoned performers Randeep Hooda and Urvashi Rautela. She has appeared in hit music videos for the songs Baarish and Dil Mera Khenda. With…
India will make Covid-19 booster shots available to all adults for a fee from Sunday, officials said, as the number of new virus cases in the country drops sharply. The nation of 1.3 billion has administered 1.85 billion shots so far, giving 96 percent of the population a single dose…
Akshata Murty, the Indian wife of embattled British chancellor Rishi Sunak, is richer than the queen as the daughter of a self-made tech billionaire and a no-less-formidable engineer and philanthropist mother. Sunak, once seen as a future prime minister, has seen his popularity sink because of surging consumer prices, while…
Indian Hindu hardliners have jumped on an explosive new film endorsed by prime minister Narendra Modi on the mass flight of Hindus from Kashmir 30 years ago to stir up hatred against minority Muslims. The Kashmir Files is the latest Bollywood offering — more famous for its song-and-dance love stories…
A GP who stole more than £1 million from NHS fund to fund his online gambling addiction has been struck off, according to a report. Dr Rumi Chhapia, 45, has stolen £1.13 million from a surgery group claiming he was ‘hacked’, reported the MailOnline. In November 2021, he was jailed for three…
ONLINE retailer Boohoo has said that products for its newly acquired brands would be made in the new factory in Leicester, according to a report. The manufacturing of Dorothy Perkins, Debenhams and Wallis clothes moved overseas nearly 30 years ago. Boohoo chief executive John Lyttle, told The Times that it focused on training workers to produce…
INDIAN business magnate Gautam Adani has joined the league of the world’s top 10 richest persons on the back of the recent stock market rally. Adani, who runs diversified businesses ranging from green energy to mining, was ranked eighth on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index as of Friday (8), becoming the…
INDIA has rejected demands from large global and domestic beverage firms to exempt some plastic straws from a ban that takes effect on July 1, fanning fears of disruption in a multi-billion-dollar industry. The ban on items such as straws packaged with small packs of juices and dairy products that…
INSPIRING Indian film Kaun Pravin Tambe premiered on streaming site Hotstar on April 1 and tells the real-life story of a cricketer who realised his sporting dream late in life. This will be followed by big-budget Bollywood drama Jersey, which is a remake of a 2019 Telugu language film of the same…
