- Saturday, March 01, 2025
The video-streaming venture of Indian billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani is likely to focus on pricing and local content following an agreement with Warner Bros as it aims to challenge the likes of Disney and Netflix in India, Reuters reported citing industry sources. As per the content deal unveiled on Thursday…
Air India's chief executive officer (CEO) Campbell Wilson on Friday (28) said that a majority of pilots have accepted the new compensation package offered last week amid protests staged by their unions against the revised salary structure and service conditions. The loss-making airline, which was taken over by Indian conglomerate…
The French Open is still a month away but Spanish teenage star Carlos Alcaraz has already set his eyes on Wimbledon, the third Grand Slam of the year. Alcaraz, the winner of the US Open last year to lost his No.1 ranking to Novak Djokovic earlier in April, has made…
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has predicted that US president Joe Biden is unlikely to make it till 86 if he is elected for a second term in 2024 and warned that his supporters would have to be content with Kamala Harris, the current vice president, in the Oval Office.…
The department of forestry, fisheries and environment of South Africa on Thursday (27) reacted to the news of deaths of two cheetahs that were airlifted from Africa to the Kuno National Park in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh last September, saying such events are within expected mortality rates…
India's sporting fraternity on Friday (28) came out to show solidarity with the country's protesting wrestlers with Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra leading the way with a plea for "quick action" to ensure that justice is served. Apart from the ace javelin thrower who bagged the top medal at the…
A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in the western Indian city of Mumbai on Friday (28) acquitted actor Sooraj Pancholi, accused of abetting the suicide of Jiah Khan, his then actor-girlfriend in 2013. Now, Jiah's mother Rabia Khan has reacted to the verdict asking how her daughter died.…
Days before he was hanged in Singapore for smuggling cannabis, Tangaraju Suppiah, a man of Indian origin, requested the prison authorities to bring him his favourite dishes -- chicken rice, nasi biryani, ice cream soda and Milo-flavoured sweets. Kokila Annamalai, a rights activist from the city-state who represented the 46-year-old…
The Indian diaspora and the US Congress have played a “pioneering role” in building and strengthening the relationship between the two countries, India's ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Thursday (27) said while addressing a gathering of Indian-Americans at a reception in Washington. A group of Indian Americans…
Indian philanthropist Sudha Murty has said her daughter Akshata Murty "made her husband a prime minister". The junior Murty, a businesswoman, is the wife of British prime minister Rishi Sunak, who became the country's first premier of Asian origin last October. While 42-year-old Sunak's quick ascension to power (he is…
