- Sunday, February 23, 2025
When India banned the hit PUBG mobile game over its diplomatic row with China, Zeyan Shafiq’s eSports team was suddenly left without players. So Shafiq, who is based in war-torn Kashmir, did something very unusual: he reached across the border to Pakistan. Shafiq, 18, feared reprisals over his move,…
THE UK foreign secretary Dominic Raab on Wednesday(16) said that experts from India and the UK will join forces through a new virtual hub to deliver vaccines for coronavirus and other deadly viruses. Raab met Indian prime minister Modi to discuss the UK and India working together as a force…
Pakistan’s president on Tuesday (15) approved a new anti-rape law which will speed up convictions and launch the country’s first national sex offenders registry. The law, which goes into effect immediately but must be ratified by parliament within three months, was prompted by the gang rape of a mother in…
Outrage is mounting in Sri Lanka after at least 15 Muslim coronavirus victims, including a baby, were cremated against family wishes and in contravention of Islamic funeral rites. Health authorities in Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka insist all victims must be cremated — even if they are Muslims, who traditionally bury their…
TOP cricketers support WaterAid’s call to help bring water to people in India as only 25 per cent of households have clean water in the country. In the campaign #BringWater , cricketers including Hashim Amla, Rory Burns, Morne Morkel, Ian Bell, Veda Krishnamurthy and WV Raman try to defend the…
India captain Virat Kohli vowed a “high-voltage” Test series against fierce rivals Australia Wednesday but also predicted a more respectful era between the cricketing powers, saying grudges and tensions were “pointless”. The superstar batsman, who has a reputation as one of the sport’s most aggressive players, said this week’s opening…
Varun Dhawan and Sara Ali Khan starrer Coolie No. 1 is all set to release on Amazon Prime Video on 25th December 2020. A couple of weeks ago, there were reports that the film might simultaneously release in single screens in India. However, now, according to a report in Bollywood Hungama, the film…
Akshay Kumar, who has almost half a dozen projects on his platter at any given point in time, recently announced a new film titled Ram Setu. The latest update on the upcoming project is that it will begin production in mid-2021 and enter theatres in 2022. Yes, Kumar has just locked…
BRITISH prime minister Boris Johnson will travel to India in January, his first bilateral visit since taking office, to try to strengthen trade and investment ties and work together on tackling climate change, his office said on Tuesday(15). He also accepted his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi’s invitation to be the…
The leaders of an anti-government alliance urged tens of thousands of supporters at a rally on Sunday (13) to join a march to the Pakistani capital next months to demand the ouster of prime minister Imran Khan, who they say was installed by the military in a rigged 2018 election.…
