- Sunday, February 23, 2025
Renowned filmmaker Sudhir Mishra, who received a great response for his recent directorial offering Serious Men (2020) on Netflix, has joined forces with filmmaker Anubhav Sinha to direct his next production. Sinha, the award-winning filmmaker behind such thought-provoking films as Mulk (2018), Article 15 (2019), and Thappad (2020), has roped in Mishra to direct the project. Sinha is…
The England team will be allowed to fly to Sri Lanka despite flights from Britain being suspended because of a new coronavirus strain, the island’s cricket authorities said Wednesday. England are due to arrive in Sri Lanka on January 3 for two Tests — played without spectators — in Galle…
The country’s first Formula One driver Narain Karthikeyan will spearhead an all-Indian racing team in the 2021 Asian Le Mans Series, to be held in Abu Dhabi in February next year. Besides Karthikeyan, the lineup also features Arjun Maini and Naveen Rao and the trio will look to compete in…
A Pakistani human rights activist who had fled to Canada has been found dead in Toronto, Canadian police said on Tuesday (22). Karima Mehrab, who was also known as Karima Baloch, had escaped to Canada in 2015 after the Pakistani government accused her of terrorism, according to CBC. “It is…
An Indian court on Tuesday (22) convicted a priest and a nun for the axe murder of another convent sister 30 years ago because they feared their illicit relationship would be made public. Highlighting the latest in a series of sex scandals to hit the Roman Catholic church in the…
INDIA is likely to approve Oxford/AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use by next week after its local manufacturer submitted additional data sought by authorities, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. This could be the first country to give the regulatory green light for the British drugmaker’s vaccine as…
PASSENGERS flying into India’s biggest airports on Wednesday(23) complained of long waits and confusion as authorities sought to impose rules to try to stop the spread of a new more transmissible variant of the coronavirus. Like many countries, India has suspended flights from Britain, where cases have soared because of…
Pakistan has secured a $1.7 billion debt relief agreement to help offset the financial headwinds sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, officials said on Monday. The deal, following months of negotiations with creditors, will provide a moratorium on debt payments for large swathes of the current fiscal year and help ease…
A Brazilian woman enslaved as a maid from the age of eight for almost four decades and forced into marriage has been rescued in a rare crackdown on domestic slavery, officials said on Monday. The 46-year-old was found living in a small room in an apartment in Patos de Minas,…
An Indian court on Monday left it to regulators to decide the fate of the $3.38 billion sale of Future Group’s retail assets to Reliance Industries Ltd , but allowed US partner Amazon.com Inc to raise objections to it. Hammered by the coronavirus pandemic, Future sold its retail assets to…
