- Sunday, June 22, 2025
A FORMER terrorist opened fire at Shiromani Akali Dal leader Sukhbir Singh Badal from a close range while he was performing the duty of 'sewadar' outside the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Wednesday but missed as he was overpowered by a plainclothes policeman. The audacious attack was captured on cameras…
THE Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), a wing of the Ministry of Home Affairs, has identified and blocked more than 1,700 Skype IDs and 59,000 WhatsApp accounts used for digital fraud, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar also stated…
MAHARASHTRA'S caretaker chief minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday visited a private hospital in Thane for a "check-up," two days before a new chief minister is sworn in at an open ground ceremony in south Mumbai. Hours after Shinde returned from the hospital, BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, being seen as the…
Oxford University Press (OUP) has officially announced 'Brain Rot' as the Word of the Year for 2024. It has defined brain rot as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial…
SIR DON BRADMAN'S iconic baggy green cap fetched a staggering $250,000 (£197,409.20) after the rare piece of cricketing history was put up for auction in Sydney on Tuesday. Auction house Bonhams said Bradman wore the cap - almost 80 years old - during India's 1947-48 tour of Australia, his last…
ACTOR Saiyami Kher, known for her roles in “Choked”, “Ghoomer”, and “Breathe: Into The Shadows”, has opened up about her struggle with social media expectations in the film industry. Ahead of the release of her new film “Agni”, Kher said she often faces advice to be more active online, a…
ACTOR Vikrant Massey has issued a clarification regarding his social media post, which led to widespread speculation about his retirement from acting. Massey, 37, confirmed that his break is temporary and intended to help him focus on his family and well-being, not a permanent exit from the industry. “My post…
HINDU leader Chinmoy Krishna Das failed to get any relief on Tuesday as his bail hearing in a Bangladesh court was postponed for a month due to the unavailability of any lawyer to represent him, according to a media report. After an initial hearing on the bail petition on Tuesday,…
AMAZON is facing legal proceedings for alleged breach of labour laws, following a government inspection at its warehouse located at Manesar, near New Delhi, Al Jazeera reports. The e-commerce giant has been accused of not complying with labour laws and not providing adequate safety measures at its warehouse. That labour…
JUST after midnight as poisonous plumes of smoke wafted through the Indian city of Bhopal four decades ago, Gas Devi was born, gasping for every breath. Her feeble cries were drowned out by the screams of men, women and children as they ran to escape the cloud of highly toxic…
