- Wednesday, February 26, 2025
The generational oppression that women have faced makes him “feel guilty” as a man, says filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj, who believes it is his duty as a storyteller to speak up against injustice whether it is political or social. Right from the beginning, Bhardwaj’s stories have featured women with agency, be…
Veteran actress turned politician Hema Malini on Tuesday extended support to the Women’s Reservation Bill after Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal introduced the Bill in the first sitting of Lok Sabha in the new Parliament building in New Delhi. Talking exclusively to ANI, Hema Malini said, “September 19 has…
Millions of workers have reason to celebrate as the Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Bill has received Royal Assent, granting workers greater control over their working patterns. This law backed by the Department for Business and Trade empowers all workers with the legal right to request a predictable working pattern…
The Aditya L1 spacecraft, India’s first space-based mission aimed at studying the Sun, got a send-off from Earth after orbiting it since its September 2 launch, as it underwent a key manoeuvre in the early hours of Tuesday (19) ISRO said. The Trans-Lagrangian Point 1 Insertion manoeuvre marks the beginning…
AVANT-GARDE artist Amrita Sher-Gil’s oil on canvas The Story Teller has unseated Sayed Haider Raza’s Gestation as the most expensive work of Indian art sold at auction worldwide. The 1937 artwork went for `618 million (£6m) in New Delhi last Saturday (16) at Saffronart’s Evening Sale: Modern Art. Featured in…
THE government on Monday (18) announced that every postmaster convicted because of a flawed IT system will be offered hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation. Some 700 people running small local post offices were found guilty of false accounting and theft between 1999 and 2015 because of a software…
Indian-American Republican presidential aspirant Vivek Ramaswamy said on Sunday (17) that many individuals are irked by his ascent and believe that a 38-year-old is too young to become US president. Following his impressive performance during the maiden Republican presidential primary debate, various opinion polls show that his popularity is on…
TRADE talks between India and Canada have taken a hit as tension rises after prime minister Justin Trudeau said authorities were investigating “credible allegations” linking New Delhi’s agents to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader. On Tuesday (19), New Delhi dismissed the allegations as “absurd”, and asked Canada instead…
CALLING the H-1B visa programme “indentured servitude”, Indian-American Republican presidential aspirant Vivek Ramaswamy has vowed to “gut” the lottery-based system and replace it with meritocratic admission if he wins the race to the White House in 2024. The H-1B visa, the much-sought-after among Indian IT professionals, is a non-immigrant visa…
TALENTED composer and gifted singer Raahul Jatin has made great strides in the music industry with superb songs. He has followed in the footsteps of his famous father, who was one half of the iconic composing duo Jatin-Lalit, with songs that are delighting cross-generational audiences. Eastern Eye got the fast rising…
