- Wednesday, March 05, 2025
AN UNRULY passenger on board an Air India Delhi-London flight created a ruckus mid-air and forced the plane to return to the Indian capital on Monday (10). He also tried to open the aircraft’s door and assaulted two crew members as they tried to stop him, Delhi police said. Jaskirat…
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, a prominent Indian-American mathematician and statistician, will receive the 2023 International Prize in Statistics. Rao’s ‘monumental’ work more than 75 years ago continues to exert a profound influence on science, the International Prize in Statistics Foundation said in a statement. Rao, 102, will receive the prize, which…
Four people were killed and 15 injured in a bombing targeting a police vehicle in a marketplace in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Monday (10), a hospital official said. Separatist group the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the blast, which was the second attack in less…
IN THE first half of the 20th century, Indian immigrants to Africa were often locked into a rigid racial hierarchy. They were conferred benefits not available to local black Africans but held back by their own colours from enjoying the wealth of opportunities enjoyed by the white population. With her…
A BRITISH parliamentary delegation will arrive in New Delhi on Sunday (9) for a four-city tour to explore two-way trade and research and development collaborations. The cross-party delegation, being led by Indian-origin peer Baroness Sandy Verma, is scheduled to hold meetings with senior ministers and business leaders with the backing…
THIS week marks three decades of something quite remarkable in Bollywood that is still hard to understand. That phenomenon also kickstarted a trend in Hindi cinema that has deeply divided audiences since then. It all started with slapstick comedy Aankhen releasing with zero expectations on April 9, 1993, and going onto become…
A UNITED ARAB EMIRATES court has dismissed South Africa’s request to extradite Atul and Rajesh Gupta, brothers who face charges of political corruption, but the Gulf state said on Friday (7) the extradition request could be resubmitted. The Guptas are accused of using their connections with Jacob Zuma, president of…
A SUSPECT charged with the triple murder of an Indian nurse and her two children has pleaded guilty at a court hearing in eastern England. Saju Chelavalel, 52, on Wednesday (5) appeared at Northampton Crown Court, where he admitted to killing wife Anju Asok, 35, and children Jeeva Saju, 6,…
INDIA’S wild tiger population – by far the largest in the world – has risen above 3,000, according to a census released Sunday (9), boosting efforts to conserve the endangered species. The largest of all cats, tigers once roamed throughout central, eastern and southern Asia. But in the past 100…
Pakistan finance minister Ishaq Dar on Saturday (8) said he had cancelled his trip to Washington for the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank on the orders of the prime minister due to the political situation in the country. However, Dar said he would attend important…
