- Sunday, March 09, 2025
TWO-TIME champion SSP Chawrasia will look to rekindle his love affair with the Hero Indian Open as he and Shubhankar Sharma eye glory at the country’s flagship golf event began at the DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurugram on Thursday (23). With a prize money of $2 million ( £1.7m), the PGTI…
TUFAN ERGINBILGIC’s mission to reverse Rolls-Royce’s years of underperformance got off to a strong start when a recovery in flying helped it soundly beat forecasts for profit and cash in 2022 and raise its expectations for this year. The new chief executive, who has called Rolls a “burning platform”, said…
SS Rajamouli’s RRR shows no sign of slowing down. After bagging a nomination at the 95th Academy Awards, the film has now been nominated in the Critics Choice Super Awards in the Best Action Movie category, along with Top Gun: Maverick and Bullet Train. Also, Ram Charan and Jr NTR are competing…
LONDON-BORN actor Shazad Latif stressed the importance of representation in mainstream cinema as he took on his first leading role on the big screen in this week’s new release What’s Love Got to Do with It? Latif said the film, which is centred around the British Pakistani community, is of…
Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, who has often faced criticism over his Canadian citizenship, says India is everything to him and he has already applied for a change of passport. He feels bad when people say things without knowing the reason for him taking up Canadian citizenship, Akshay said in an…
UK CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt on Thursday (23) reached Bengaluru in India at take part in the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting scheduled for Friday (24) and Saturday (25) and bilateral talks with the host nation to enhance the UK-India economic partnership. In what is his first foreign…
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer set out plans for five “national missions” on Thursday (23), including to make the UK economy the fastest growing among the G7, in a challenge to the Conservatives, ahead of a pivotal year for both parties. If Labour wins power, it should be judged on ensuring…
INDIAN finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and US treasury secretary Janet Yellen discussed strengthening multilateral development banks, global debt vulnerabilities and crypto assets on the sidelines of the G20 finance chiefs meeting on Thursday (23), the finance ministry said. Yellen is expected to brief reporters later in the day and take…
AN AIR INDIA flight from the American city of Newark to Delhi with more than 300 people on board, made an emergency landing in Stockholm on Wednesday (22) morning. A senior official of India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said the flight, operated with a Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft,…
BRITAIN has strongly defended the BBC and its editorial freedom in Parliament after a survey by Indian tax authorities on the media corporation’s New Delhi and Mumbai offices last week. A Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) junior minister responded to an urgent question raised in the House of Commons…
