- Saturday, February 22, 2025
AMERICAN singer Akon set the stage on fire with his special performance at the pre-wedding festivities of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant. On day three of the gala event, Akon also performed his hit track ‘Chammak Challo’ from the sci-fi action thriller film Ra.One which got superstars Shah Rukh Khan…
France is set to become the first country to embed the right to abortion in its constitution. The decision follows president Emmanuel Macron’s commitment to safeguard abortion rights after the US Supreme Court’s move to overturn longstanding abortion protections in 2022. The constitutional amendment is expected to receive overwhelming support…
Kanpur’s Vaibhav Gupta has won the singing reality show Indian Idol 14 after besting co-contestants Subhadeep Das Chowdhary from Kolkata and Rajasthan’s Piyush Panwar. Gupta, 19, was awarded with a cheque of Rs 25 Lakh (approximately £23,791) from Sony Entertainment Television and a Brezza from co-sponsors Maruti Suzuki India Ltd…
THE British Asian Trust has extended help for acid and burn violence survivors in Bangladesh, addressing a critical shortage of mental health services, the UK-based charity said in a statement. There are around 4,000 acid attack survivors in Bangladesh, nearly two-thirds of them are women. According to the charity, emotional…
CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt sought to dampen speculation about big pre-election tax cuts in this week’s budget, saying there had been a worsening in the economic outlook, but he hinted at some help for voters. The forecasts that underpin the budget “have gone against us,” Hunt told the Sunday Telegraph in…
BRILLIANTLY balancing acclaimed work in multiple mediums, from sculptures to paintings, with philanthropy has turned Rouble Nagi into arguably the most important Indian artist of this generation. The combination of creativity and giving back to society has transformed the lives of thousands in deprived areas with in – spiring projects,…
GOOGLE’s decision to remove some apps in India from its app store “cannot be permitted”, Information Technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday (2), amid an ongoing dispute over service fee payments to the US firm. Google on Friday (1) removed from its Play Store many Indian apps, including Matrimony.com’s…
Actors Vir Das, Richa Chadha, and Dulquer Salmaan on Sunday expressed shock over the gang rape of a Spanish tourist in Jharkhand’s Dumka district and demanded that perpetrators be brought to justice. The woman from Spain was allegedly gang-raped at Kurumahat in Hansdiha police station area, around 300 km from…
Bollywood’s three Khans — Shah Rukh, Salman, and Aamir — showed off their bromance on-stage on the second day of the grand pre-wedding event of billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s son Anant and his fiancée Radhika Merchant. And what better than grooving to the tune of “Naatu Naatu”, the high-spirited Oscar-winning Telugu…
IN yet another deadly attack on Indian Americans in the US in recent months, a 34-year-old trained classical dancer from India and a student of Washington University, was shot dead in St Louis, Missouri. Kuchipudi and Bharatnatyam dancer Amarnath Ghosh, who migrated to the US from West Bengal last year…
