- Thursday, April 24, 2025
GLOBAL semiconductor majors have committed investments in India as prime minister Narendra Modi offered 50 per cent financial assistance for chip makers setting up plants in the country. It comes after Modi’s ambitions to promote semiconductor manufacturing suffered a setback last month when Taiwanese tech major Foxconn pulled out of…
PRIME MINISTER Rishi Sunak’s political adviser at No10, Ameet Jogia, has been selected as the Tory candidate for Hendon constituency. The selection was made after long standing MP Matthew Offord announced that he would step down at the next general election, according to a statement. The final selection was hotly…
A 78-year-old Indian-American engineer was fired from his long-time job with a missile defence contractor in Alabama, US, for speaking in Hindi with his dying relative in India over a video call, a media report quoted a lawsuit filed by him. Anil Varshney, a senior systems engineer with Huntsville missile…
In a court hearing, it was revealed that a 21-year-old man named Jaswant Singh Chail, who was armed with a crossbow and who had entered the grounds of Windsor Castle on Christmas Day with the intention of “killing” the late Queen had also planned to kill guards at the castle. However,…
AN ELDERLY Asian man, who walked into a London police station earlier this year to inform officers he had killed his wife, has pleaded guilty to murdering her with a hard wooden bat used in the English game of rounders. Tarsame Singh, 79, appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Monday…
The largest education unions in Britain, including the National Education Union (NEU), on Monday (31) announced that teachers in England have voted to accept the government’s pay offer. This decision marks a significant boost for prime minister Rishi Sunak’s efforts to resolve the ongoing wave of disruptive public-sector strikes. The…
CHINA will continue to work with its all-weather ally Pakistan to take their strategic ties to new heights, Chinese President Xi Jinping has said as the two countries celebrated the 10th anniversary of the launch of the ambitious CPEC infrastructure projects in the South Asian country for regional connectivity. In…
THE death toll from a suicide bombing in northwest Pakistan that targeted a hard-line religious group’s political rally has risen to 56, a government official said on Tuesday (1). The toll from Sunday’s attack in the Bajaur district on the border with Afghanistan could rise, said Anwar-ul-Haq, the region’s deputy…
ENGLAND’s Stuart Broad claimed the last two Australia wickets to secure a dramatic 49-run victory for his team in the final Ashes test at The Oval on Monday (31) and leave the series locked at 2-2 after five gripping matches. Broad, playing his final test, removed Todd Murphy and Alex…
Actress Taapsee Pannu never shies away from taking up challenging roles. She is known for her powerful performances in movies such as Pink, Thappad, Rashmi Rocket, and Shabaash Mithu, among others. Although she made her Bollywood debut with Chashme Baddoor in 2013, she gained a lot of prominence with her movies such as Baby and Pink. As the actress…
