- Sunday, February 23, 2025
ROGER Federer on Monday (5) became the oldest man to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals since the dawn of the Open Era in 1968. Federer, who will be 40 in just under five weeks' time, eased past Italy's Lorenzo Sonego 7-5, 6-4, 6-2 to make the last-eight at the All England…
ALTHOUGH it saw a 35 per cent growth in toplines in the 2022 financial year on a lower base, revenues for the print industry will reach only 75 per cent of the pre-pandemic levels, a report said on Monday (5). The sector’s revenue of Rs 31,000 crore in 2020 financial…
INDIA may witness the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic from August and it would reach the peak in September, a report by the State Bank of India (SBI) has predicted. The report, titled ‘Covid-19: the race to finishing line’, has been prepared by SBI Research and its projections are…
THE monsoon session of the legislative assembly in the western Indian state of Maharashtra started amid din on Monday (5) as the house suspended 12 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members for a year for abusing and manhandling the speaker in chair. Former chief minister and leader of the opposition Devendra…
THE death of Stan Swamy, the 84-year-old activist who was arrested under an anti-terror law in October last year in connection with the Elgar Parishad case and kept imprisoned, has drawn a massive reaction from the opposition parties, activists, journalists and people from different walks of life. Jharkhand chief minister…
RASHTRIYA Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday (4) urged India’s Muslims to not get “trapped in the cycle of fear” that Islam is in danger in India. He asserted that the DNA of all Indians is the same. Speaking at an event organised by the Muslim Rastriya Manch,…
DELHI chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday (4) wrote to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi saying all doctors, nurses and paramedics who served the people in times of the Covid-19 pandemic should be conferred the Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award, this year. It will be a true homage…
THE Indian National Congress, India’s main opposition party, on Sunday (4) buried speculations that it was contemplating a change in its leadership in the Lok Sabha, the Lower House of the Parliament. The party slammed the media reports that hinted at such a possibility calling them “premature and unfounded” and…
E-COMMERCE Amazon and India’s Tata Group have warned the Indian government that plans to bring in tougher rules for online retailers would adversely impact their business models, Reuters reported citing four sources. At a meeting organised by the consumer affairs ministry of the government and Invest India, its investment-promotion arm,…
STANISLAUS Lourduswamy, better known as Stan Swamy, an octogenarian priest-activist who was arrested under the anti-terror law in the Elgar Parishad case in 2020, passed away in judicial custody on Monday (5) in the middle of his battle for bail on health grounds. Swamy was being treated at the Holy…
