- Friday, May 02, 2025
BILLIONAIRE Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries has acquired technology-driven and oncology-focused healthcare platform Karkinos, which is currently facing insolvency proceedings, for ₹3.75 billion (£34.93m), the firm said on Saturday. Reliance Strategic Business Ventures (RSBVL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of India's most valuable company, completed the acquisition of Karkinos Healthcare Pvt Ltd with…
MALAYSIAN prime minister Anwar Ibrahim wrote a moving tribute to Manmohan Singh Friday (27), recalling how the Indian leader offered scholarships for his children while he was in prison. On X, he described the former prime minister, who died Thursday, as “the midwife of India’s emergence as one of the…
IN A heartwarming display of Kashmiri hospitality, locals in Gund, on the Srinagar-Sonamarg highway, opened the doors of a mosque to shelter a group of travellers stranded due to heavy snowfall. A dozen tourists from Punjab found themselves caught in the snowfall on Friday while returning from the Sonamarg area,…
FILMMAKER Payal Kapadia’s critically-acclaimed feature film “All We Imagine as Light” is set to release digitally on Disney+ Hotstar from January 3, 2025, the streaming platform announced Friday. The widely-loved film had a limited theatrical release in September in India. “Baahubali” star Rana Daggubati had acquired the exclusive rights to…
NITISH REDDY, an unknown entity in red ball cricket before the start of Border-Gavaskar series, virtually bailed India out with his dogged maiden Test century in Melbourne on Saturday, severely denting Australia's hopes of winning the Boxing Day contest. Reddy's unbeaten 105 took India to 358 for nine, still 116…
THE MORTAL remains of former prime minister Manmohan Singh were consigned to flames at the Nigambodh Ghat in New Delhi on Saturday amid the chanting of religious hymns. The funeral pyre was lit by his eldest daughter Upinder Singh. The last rites were performed in the presence of president Droupadi…
SEVERAL parts of north India continued to be in the grip of intense cold wave conditions on Thursday with minimum temperatures settling several degrees below the freezing point in some cities of Kashmir valley. Weather was mostly dry across Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand during the last 24 hours. Punjab, Haryana…
AN ONLINE food delivery firm staffer was made to take off his Santa Claus attire on Christmas Eve in Indore in Madhya Pradesh, though the leader of a right-wing group allegedly involved in the incident on Thursday claimed the former took it off "voluntarily". State Congress spokesperson Santosh Singh Gautam…
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh, the architect of India's economic reforms, died in New Delhi on Thursday night. He was 92. Singh's death was announced by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, where he was admitted in the Emergency ward around 8.30 PM in a critical condition. An…
THE NUMBER of bank frauds witnessed a significant on-year increase in the first half of the current fiscal to 18,461 cases and the amount involved jumped more than eight-fold to ₹213.67 billion (£2 bn), according to RBI data released on Thursday. The Reserve Bank of India has released the Report…
