- Sunday, June 22, 2025
AS Raj Kapoor’s 100th birth anniversary approaches, his son Randhir Kapoor reflects on the legendary filmmaker’s life and legacy. Kapoor’s cinematic contributions will be honoured through the RK Film Festival, a three-day retrospective organised by PVR INOX Limited and the Film Heritage Foundation. The festival, starting Friday, will showcase 10…
AMID celebration of D Gukesh's sensational win at the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Singapore on Thursday, a Russian chess federation official has cast aspersion on the conduct of his opponent - China’s Ding Liren. The 18-year-old Indian Grandmaster had made history by becoming the youngest-ever to win the world…
IN her first Lok Sabha speech, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday said had it not been for the general election results, in which the BJP scraped through to victory, the government would have started work on changing the Constitution. Participating in a debate on the Constitution in the…
THE TELANGANA High Court on Friday granted a four-week interim bail to actor Allu Arjun, who was arrested earlier in the day by Hyderabad police in connection with the death of a woman during the screening of his latest movie "Pushpa 2: The Rule" here last week. The HC order…
IN THE run-up to the Delhi Assembly polls, streets and public places in the national capital are awash with campaign posters as political parties vie for the voters' attention. The ruling AAP and its closest rival, BJP, dominate the poster war, sending across political messages like "Phir Layenge Kejriwal" to…
ABOUT a million and a half deaths every year from 2009 to 2019 is potentially linked with a long-term exposure to PM2.5 pollution, according to a study published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal. Researchers, including those at Ashoka University, Haryana, and Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, said…
BILLIONAIRE Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd has signed a deal to import crude oil worth $12-13 billion a year from Russia's Rosneft for 10 years, sources said. Russian state oil firm Rosneft will supply up to 500,000 barrels per day (25 million tonne a year) of crude oil to Reliance,…
INDIAN grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju on Thursday became the youngest world chess champion at 18 years after beating title-holder Ding Liren of China in the 14th and last game of a roller-coaster showdown that went right down to the wire in Singapore. Gukesh won Thursday's game with the black pieces after…
KEERTHY SURESH tied the knot with her longtime boyfriend, Antony Thattil, in a traditional South Indian wedding held in Goa on December 12, 2024. The couple’s wedding celebrations began on December 10 and culminated in the main ceremony on December 12. The event was attended by their families and close…
INDIA and Britain will resume their talks on a free trade agreement by the end of January, an Indian government source told Reuters on Thursday. This development comes after British prime minister Keir Starmer's office said last month that talks would be restarted in the "new year". The previous UK…
