- Friday, February 21, 2025
Actor Ayushmann Khurrana, who is the National Ambassador of UNICEF and has always been vocal about children’s rights, attended the Radio4Child Awards. The fifth edition of the UNICEF India Radio4Child Awards, held on Tuesday, honoured the outstanding contributions of 22 radio professionals from All India Radio, private FM stations, and…
A court in Uzbekistan sentenced 23 people to prison terms on Monday (26) over the deaths of 68 children linked to contaminated cough syrups produced by India’s Marion Biotech, following a six-month-long trial. The Central Asian nation had previously reported 65 deaths linked to the medicines, but last month the…
A few days ago, the Supreme Court of Alabama said that “fertilised frozen embryos are babies.” This kicked up another tempest that was already brewing on the campaign trail around the issue of abortion and the Dobbs decision, which last year took away the rights of American women to seek…
The Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) in Mumbai, a leading cancer research and treatment centre in India, claims to have made a groundbreaking discovery in cancer treatment. After a decade of research, scientists and doctors at the institute have developed a tablet that could prevent the recurrence of cancer in patients.…
The government has announced a £31m package to help improve the security measures for MPs who are facing threats or harassment, according to media reports. The measures will include the provision of bodyguards for MPs most at risk and additional police patrols in response to increased community tensions, BBC reports.…
It was as if time had stopped, says violinist Ganesh Rajagopalan as he recalls walking up to the Grammy stage with his Shakti band members to receive the golden gramophone for ‘Best Global Music Album’. Shakti won the Grammy for “This Moment”, the band’s first studio album in over 45…
Bigg Boss 15 fame Abdu Rozik has been summoned by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) in a money laundering case for an alleged connection with drug dealer Ali Asghar Shirazi. Giving this information, ED said that on Tuesday afternoon, Abdu arrived at the ED office in Mumbai to record his…
In a post that made netizens sad, a British woman named Daniella T was detected with Cholangiocarcinoma cancer (bile duct cancer) and before she succumbed to it, she wrote a post on her social media. She published a heartfelt message on LinkedIn which garnered over 32,000 likes. Daniella T, in…
Keeping prejudice out of politics is becoming increasingly fraught in polarised times. Taking to the streets to protest must be part of free speech – within decent democratic boundaries. That deal is broken if prejudiced placards, chants and slogans go unchecked – but undermined too when politicians declare every protestor…
India’s top court on Tuesday barred consumer firm Patanjali Ayurved, co-founded by one of the country’s most popular yoga gurus, from publishing advertisements for its traditional ayurvedic medicines that claim to cure some diseases. The Supreme Court order was issued in an ongoing legal dispute with the Indian Medical Association,…
