- Saturday, March 01, 2025
INDIA and Australia have underlined the need for an immediate cessation of hostilities in Ukraine. Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison made the assertion during their virtual summit on Monday (21). According to a joint statement, both nations stressed that the contemporary global order has been built…
THE PARENTS of Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui, who was killed in a Taliban attack in Afghanistan last year, have begun legal action at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against the Islamist group, a lawyer for the family said on Tuesday (22). Siddiqui, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was embedded with Afghan…
INDIA’S hospitality technology platform OYO on Tuesday (22) said it will offer free accommodation to refugees fleeing Ukraine. Starting with Poland, the company has initiated efforts to appeal to its 600-plus Belvilla homeowners on its platform in Poland to open their holiday homes to refugees. “These stays will be free…
BRITISH lawmaker David Amess was “assassinated” while meeting constituents last year by a “fanatical, radicalised Islamist terrorist,” a court heard as the accused killer went on trial. Veteran Conservative MP Amess was stabbed to death at a Methodist church in Leigh-on-Sea in southeast England in October. Ali Harbi Ali, 26, from north London, was…
LONDON’S Parliament Square was the flag-off point for Indian spiritual leader Sadhguru’s 30,000-km motorbike tour on Monday (21), as he set off on his Save Soil awareness campaign across Europe and the Middle East en route to India. The yoga guru, 64, donned his biking gear for the 100-day tour,…
DRIVERS living in areas of Britain where there are a higher proportion of people of colour pay at least £280 more for their annual motor insurance, consumer charity Citizens Advice said on Tuesday (22). The charity carried out research on insurance premiums in eight postcode areas. Everyone in those postcodes…
DIAMONDS from Russia will continue to be imported to India where they will be processed and sold to the rest of the world, a top expert has been quoted as saying. Russia is an important link in the world’s diamond industry supply chain – the country is the largest producer…
US president Joe Biden has said only India among the Quad group of countries was “somewhat shaky” in acting against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, as India tries to balance its ties with Russia and the West. While the other Quad countries – the US, Japan and Australia –…
Rajkummar Rao, and Dulquer Salmaan to headline their next streaming show, titled Guns & Gulaabs. And now, Netflix has dropped the first look posters of all the three leading men from the series. The streaming media giant on Tuesday took to social media to share the quirky looks of the three stars. Revealing…
Filmmaker Aishwarya Rajinikanth on Monday announced that she is set to debut in Hindi as a director with her upcoming film Oh Saathi Chal. Aishwarya, who has so far directed two Tamil films and one documentary in her career spanning a decade, took to Twitter to make the new announcement. “My week…
