- Saturday, April 19, 2025
Shaheer Sheikh, who is regarded as one of the most popular actors working in the Indian television space, has been taken. The TV heartthrob married longtime girlfriend Ruchikaa Kapoor on Friday, after days of endless rumours surrounding their relationship. Instead of a lavish wedding ceremony amid the ongoing pandemic, the…
Talented actor Randeep Hooda, who was most recently seen in American action thriller Extraction (2020) alongside Hollywood star Chris Hemsworth, is set to make his web-series debut with Jio Studios’ Inspector Avinash. As the title aptly suggests, Inspector Avinash is a cop thriller based on real-life events of super cop Avinash Mishra. Hooda plays the…
INDIAN drug firm Hetero will produce 100 million doses of the Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine per year, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said on Friday(27). It added that the production is expected to start in early 2021. The RDIF statement said Phase II-III clinical trials were still under way…
POLICE launched a hate crime investigation after a video showing a Sikh schoolboy being attacked at Charlton School in Telford, Shropshire, went viral on social media. Describing the incident as ‘incredibly distressing’, the West Mercia Police said that it had taken ‘immediate and appropriate’ action following the incident. The incident…
The statues and street names of Winston Churchill, Lord Nelson and Mahatma Gandhi in Wales are likely to be removed as they were named in a Welsh government report reviewing those ‘complicit’ in slavery and colonialism. In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, an audit was launched to…
A NEW public garden will be created at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to commemorate Londoners who have lost their lives to Covid-19. London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Friday(27) said that 33 blossoming trees, one for each London borough, will be the centrepiece of a new public garden which will commemorate…
Human rights lawyers and activists said on Monday (23) that Myanmar is continuing to commit genocide against Rohingya Muslims in breach of orders by the UN’s top court. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in January rejected arguments made personally by Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in The…
Intensive care units across Pakistan are nearing capacity as a second, deadlier wave of the coronavirus builds momentum and officials struggle to counter public indifference to the pandemic. Several doctors told AFP on Wednesday (25) that hospitals are turning away suspected Covid-19 patients, with the potential for a major health…
THOUSANDS of Indian farmers were blocked by the police on Friday(27) as they tried to march to the country’s capital, Delhi. The farmers were protesting against new laws liberalising procurement that they say will leave them vulnerable to big companies. Clashes erupted on the borders of Delhi following the police…
BRITAIN on Friday(27) asked its regulator to assess AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine for a rollout after experts raised questions about trial data. Meanwhile, the company said that it may run another study to gauge the shot’s efficacy. The UK government has secured 100 million doses of the vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca…
