- Tuesday, February 11, 2025
BUDGET carrier IndiGo will introduce business class seats in select flights on 12 domestic routes starting from November and also launch a customer loyalty programme, as it seeks to expand business and strengthen global presence. The announcements, made at an event in the national capital on Monday to mark 18…
A LEGAL dispute between the producers of Manjummel Boys and acclaimed music composer Ilayaraja has been resolved. The controversy centred on the unauthorized use of Ilayaraja’s iconic song "Kanmani Anbodu" from the Tamil film Guna. The producers have agreed to pay Rs 6 million to Ilayaraja to settle the issue.…
YAMINI KRISHNAMURTI, a renowned figure in Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi, died at Apollo Hospital in New Delhi on Saturday at the age of 84. She had been in the ICU for the past seven months due to age-related issues, according to her manager and secretary Ganesh. She is survived by two…
BANGLADESH prime minister Sheikh Hasina's 15-year rule of the country ended on Monday as she fled weeks of deadly protests and the military announced it would form an interim government. Hasina had sought since early July sought to quell nationwide protests against her government, but she fled after a brutal…
THE INDIAN hockey team produced one of its most resolute performances in recent memory to enter the Olympic semifinals for a second successive edition on Sunday for India at the Paris Games. This was despite being on the back-foot for a majority of the match after key defender Amit Rohidas…
THE SUPREME COURT on Monday took suo motu cognisance of the deaths of three civil services aspirants in the basement of a coaching centre here and sought responses from the Centre and the Delhi government. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan said the recent incident in the…
PROTESTING students in Bangladesh have called for a march to the capital Dhaka on Monday in defiance of a nationwide curfew to press Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign, a day after deadly clashes in the South Asian country killed nearly 100 people. Armoured personnel carriers and troops patrolled the…
DONALD TRUMP is facing a fierce backlash for questioning the race of US election rival Kamala Harris, but to those acquainted with the Republican's long history of inflammatory language and behavior around the issue, the smear was nothing new. Trump's political career was forged in the cauldron of the 2010s…
AN ACCURATE early warning system that correlates rainfall and the potential for landslides. That is the imperative, say experts as rains create havoc in hills across India. Cloudbursts in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand have triggered floods and house collapses. The rain-scripted tragedies in the hill states came just two days…
ACTOR Gulshan Devaiah attributes his recent string of projects, including “Guns & Gulaabs,” “Bad Cop,” and “Ulajh,” to his focus on process rather than results. Devaiah, known for his roles in “Shaitan” and “Hunterrr,” believes that concentrating on the end result has led to failure in his career. In an…
