- Monday, February 24, 2025
FILMSTARS joining electoral politics is not new in India, particularly in its southern states. This year, speculation was rife over Kamal Haasan contesting the general elections due in April and May but the veteran actor has now decided against fighting in the polls himself and instead will campaign for the…
ENGLAND'S comprehensive 4-1 Test series loss in India, culminating with an innings and 64-run defeat inside three days in Dharamsala last week, has left coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes with several difficult decisions. They will, however, have plenty of time to conduct a thorough review, with their side…
IN what could be a case of domestic violence, a 36-year-old woman from the southern Indian city of Hyderabad was found murdered in Australia and her husband, who allegedly killed her, flew back to the city and handed over their child to the parents of the former. Chaithanya Madhagani was…
KENSINGTON Palace released an altered photograph of Britain's Princess Catherine on Sunday (10) leading AFP and other news agencies to withdraw the image, the first to be officially released since her abdominal surgery. The photo, issued to mark Mother's Day in Britain, shows the smiling Princess of Wales sitting on…
TRINAMOOL CONGRESS, one of India's major opposition parties and the governing party of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, on Sunday (10) announced names of 42 candidates for the upcoming general elections expected to take place in April and May and among them was Yusuf Pathan, a former India…
THE Indian opposition have lashed out at the Narendra Modi government after one of the country's election commissioners stepped down just weeks ahead of the announcement of the schedule of the next general elections. Arun Goel quit on Saturday (9) and his resignation was accepted by president Draupadi Murmu with…
A SPECIAL event on the occasion of Mahashivratri was held at Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand on Friday (8), the day the International Yoga Festival (IYF) kicked off. Parmarth Niketan organised the week-long IYF 2024 (it will conclude on March 14) in association…
PAKISTAN'S newly elected parliament has voted in Shehbaz Sharif as the prime minister for the second time, three weeks after uncertain national elections led to a coalition government. The pressing concern at hand is whether the incoming government will be capable of resolving the economic turmoil, which the new premier…
THE International Yoga Festival (IYF), which kicked off in Parmarth Niketan in Rishikesh in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand on Friday (8), has rolled out the red carpet for 1,200 yoga lovers from 75 nations. The event is organised by Parmarth Niketan with the support of Incredible India, which…
ENGLAND pace bowler James Anderson on Saturday (9) became the first seam bowler to take 700 wickets in Test matches in the format's history going back by nearly 150 years when he picked the wicket of India's Kuldeep Yadav in the fifth and final Test match between the two sides…
