• Sunday, June 22, 2025

Hardik Pandya’s golden run with bat continues at Syed Mushtaq…

HARDIK PANDYA continued his rich vein of form by smashing five sixes and scoring 28 runs in an over bowled by left-arm spinner Parvez Sultan as Baroda crushed Tripura by seven wickets in a Group B game of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy here on Friday. Chasing a meagre target…

Zomato raises ₹85 billion from qualified institutional investors

FOOD delivery aggregator Zomato on Friday said it has raised ₹85 billion (£792.68m) by selling equity shares to qualified institutional investors to fund its growth objectives. Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal had earlier shared that the proposed fundraise is meant to strengthen its balance sheet. The company opened its Qualified Institutional…

Sharmila Tagore to make big screen comeback with ‘Outhouse’

CINEMA icon Sharmila Tagore is set to return to the big screen with "Outhouse", a heartwarming movie that will be released in theatres on December 20. Veteran actor Mohan Agashe co-stars in the movie alongside Tagore, who was most recently seen in the Disney+Hotstar movie "Gulmohar". Also produced by Agashe,…

Eknath Shinde says new Maharashtra chief minister will be decided…

MAHARASHTRA chief minister Eknath Shinde on Friday said he had "good and positive" discussions with home minister Amit Shah and BJP chief J P Nadda on the issue of government formation in the state. Speaking to reporters in New Delhi before leaving for Mumbai, Shinde said the decision on the…

ED raids Raj Kundra, others in ‘pornographic’ films linked money…

THE Enforcement Directorate on Friday raided the premises of businessman Raj Kundra, the husband of actor Shilpa Shetty, and some others as part of a money laundering case linked to alleged distribution of pornographic and adult movies, official sources said. Around 15 locations in Mumbai and some cities in Uttar…

Sambhal: Supreme Court tells trial court not to pass order…

THE SUPREME COURT on Friday asked the Sambhal trial court not to pass any order related to the survey of a Mughal-era mosque while directing the Uttar Pradesh government to maintain peace and harmony in the violence-hit town. A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Sanjay Kumar ordered the…

Four doctors in Kerala booked for ‘failing’ to detect serious…

A CASE has been registered against four doctors here for allegedly failing to detect a serious malformation in a newborn while it was in the mother's womb, the police said on Thursday. The accused are two female doctors attached to the Kadappuram Government Women and Child Hospital in Alappuzha along…

Four private bank staff held for helping ‘digital arrest’ fraudsters

THE GUJARAT police have arrested four employees of a private sector bank and their accomplice for allegedly helping international cyber criminals in opening bank accounts without KYC and transferring proceeds of crime though them, an official said. The fraud came to light during an investigation by the Ahmedabad Cyber Crime…

Ajmer dargah: Court notices spark debate

‘WORRISOME’, ‘painful’, ‘what is the problem’… the rift over a claim that the famed shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti was built over a Shiva temple widened on Thursday with politicians, community leaders and others weighing in on the potentially volatile issue. On Wednesday, a local court in Ajmer,…

Sheikh Hasina condemns arrest of Hindu spiritual leader, demands his…

DEPOSED prime minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina on Thursday condemned the arrest of Hindu spiritual leader Chinmoy Krishna Das and said the leader must be released immediately. Das who was taken into custody earlier this week on sedition charges. "A top leader of the Sanatan religious community has been unjustly…