Chiranjeevi, a filmstar from the Telugu film industry in south India who turned 67 on Monday (22), has unveiled plans to build a hospital for the welfare of film workers in his hometown of Hyderabad. The actor, who also had a stint with politics, said at an event associated with…
A Chinese research vessel accused by India and the United States of spying activities left Sri Lanka's Chinese-run port of Hambantota on Monday (22) after a week-long stay. Colombo allowed the Yuan Wang 5 to visit the deep-sea port on the condition that it would not engage in research in…
China once again found itself at the centre of a political storm in India on Monday (22) when Devendra Fadnavis, the deputy chief minister of the western state of Maharashtra said a number of fraudulent loan apps, which have landed people looking for short and long-term loans in financial trouble,…
As part of the Norway-India global energy transition partnership, the Norwegian Climate Investment Fund will take up a 49-per cent stake in a 420-MW (mega watt) solar power plant in the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan, the Scandinavian nation's embassy in New Delhi said on Monday (22). The new Norwegian…
Indian education minister Dharmendra Pradhan and his Australian counterpart Jason Clare on Monday (22) announced the establishment of a working group on transnational education to build shared understanding of the regulatory settings in both countries and promote opportunities for a two-way mobility of institutions. Pradhan, who is on a four-day…
Reviving the memory of December 2021 when a Sri Lankan factory manager was brutally killed and set ablaze by a mob in Pakistan over blasphemy, a Hindu sanitation worker in the country was booked in a fake blasphemy case over alleged desecration of Quran, local media reports said. The incident…
Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford has called on the squad to come together and bounce back from their heavy defeat against Brentford on August 13 as the 'Red Devils' take on red arch-rivals Liverpool in the ongoing Premier League at Old Trafford on Monday (22). United's 0-4 drubbing against Brentford,…
India on Monday (22) handed over 21,000 tonnes of fertiliser to Sri Lanka under a special support programme which will help farmers in this country and help bolster bilateral cooperation for food security, the second such assistance in recent months to the crisis-hit island nation. "Adding to the fragrance of…
Britain is set to get a new prime minister in the first week of September but a new research has shown that at least 49 per cent of the ruling Conservative Party's supporters still wish that Boris Johnson, the outgoing premier, was in the race and preferred him to both…
Pakistan's ousted prime minister Imran Khan was granted protective bail till Thursday (25) by the Islamabad High Court in a terrorism case registered against him for threatening police, judiciary and other state institutions during a rally here on Saturday (20). Khan, 69, was booked on Sunday under the Anti-Terrorism Act…