- Thursday, February 27, 2025
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan on Tuesday offered prayers at the Sri Venkateswara Swamy temple in the hill town of Tirumala in Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh, days before the release of his much-anticipated film Jawan. The 58-year-old superstar was accompanied by his daughter Suhana Khan, Jawan co-star Nayanthara, her filmmaker husband Vignesh…
Pakistani censors have banned a TV drama over scenes reminiscent of a notorious gang rape case, saying the series would “tarnish” the nation’s image by depicting it as an “unsafe place for women”. Regulators said the show Hadsa would be pulled from airwaves due to parallels to the real-life case of a…
INDIA has strongly rejected comments by UN experts on Manipur, terming them “unwarranted, presumptive and misleading” and asserting that situation in the northeast state is peaceful. In the note issued on Monday (4) to the special procedures branch of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Indian…
The Salangpur Temple controversy that was caused by murals that depicted Lord Hanuman at the feet of yogi and ascetic Swaminarayan, came to an end as the temple administration initiated the removal of the Lord Hanuman murals in the early morning hours on Tuesday. After several days of controversy surrounding…
Aditya-L1, the inaugural Indian space mission dedicated to studying the Sun, achieved a successful second earth-bound manoeuvre on Tuesday (5), Indian space research agency ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) said. The operation was executed by ISRO’s Telemetry, Tracking, and Command Network (ISTRAC). “The second Earth-bound manoeuvre (EBN#2) is performed successfully…
Actor Sacha Dhawan, who is known for Doctor Who and The Great, Wolf, has been roped in to play the title role in a new BBC detective series Virdee. The six-part series is the screen adaptation of pharmacist A.A. Dhand’s bestselling Harry Virdee crime novels that follow an enigmatic detective. Dhand is a registered…
RETAIL major Frasers Group has continued to up its stake in Boohoo, taking its total shareholding in the Manchester-based rival to 10.42 per cent. On July 31, Frasers revealed that its shareholding in Boohoo had gone up from 6.8 per cent to 7.8 per cent. The Mike Ashley-founded company said…
METALS tycoon Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance is considering selling its Clydebridge site, one of the two steel mills it acquired about seven years ago. The family-owned business group bought the mothballed steel plants at Clydebridge and Dalzell in a Scottish government-backed deal in 2016. Scottish Enterprises funded the takeover with…
Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni lost their respective opening-round matches in the men’s doubles event at the US Open with veteran Rohan Bopanna being the only Indian to remain in the fray. Bhambri and Myneni lost in their individual opening-round matches in the men’s doubles competition at the US Open.…
PRIME minister Narendra Modi has said the perception of India has changed as the country prepares to host world leaders at the G20 summit this weekend. In an interview with the Press Trust of India news agency, Modi also called on the United Nations to reform in line with 21st…
