- Wednesday, June 04, 2025
US president Joe Biden has awarded Jatin Patel, an Indian-American multi-sport coach, the Lifetime Achievement Award for his lifelong commitment towards building a strong nation through volunteer service. He also received a letter signed by the president. Besides being a multi-sport coach in cricket, soccer and baseball, Patel is a…
UNCERTAINTY has gripped the UK’s steel industry amid job cuts and investment-intensive decarbonisation requirements. Traditional steel production, relying on coal to produce iron, is regarded as incompatible with the UK’s legally binding climate action commitment to reduce carbon emissions in the coming decades. The government is reported to be willing…
Anil Wadhwani on Saturday (25) took over as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Prudential plc. The British insurer had named Wadhwani, who was earlier the president and CEO of Manulife Asia, for the top post in May last year. The new CEO will present the 2022 full year results…
A NEW law raising the legal age for marriage in England and Wales to 18 years came into force on Monday (27), aimed at protecting vulnerable young people from being forced into weddings against their will. Until now, those aged 16 or 17 could get married with parental consent as…
DENMARK’S Crown Prince Frederik Andre Henrik Christian and Crown Princess Mary Elizabeth are in India for a four-day visit that began on Sunday (26). It is the first time in 20 years that the Danish royal family has visited the country. His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince, previously visited India…
Indian director S.S. Rajamouli’s films are all-singing, all-dancing spectacles — and he is now a favourite to secure the first ever Oscar for an all-Indian film. His three-hour extravaganza “RRR” is a fictionalised story of two colonial-era revolutionaries, filled with large-scale, visual effects-laden action sequences and musical numbers. It has…
Actress Bhumi Pednekar on Monday celebrated the eight-year anniversary of her debut movie Dum Laga Ke Haisha, which was released back in 2015. Taking to Instagram, Bhumi dropped a video featuring the deleted scene from the movie. Sharing the video, she wrote a long note, “Here is a deleted scene from…
On Saturday, February 25, Mindy Kaling received the Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television at Producers Guild Awards for her work producing shows including The Mindy Project, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Never Have I Ever, Velma, and The Office. B.J. Novak, who worked with Kaling on The Office, presented her the award Saturday night.…
New intelligence has prompted the Energy Department to conclude that an accidental laboratory leak in China most likely caused the novel coronavirus pandemic, reported The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The shift by the Energy Department, which previously was undecided on how the virus emerged, is noted in an update to…
Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s highly acclaimed film The Kashmir Files (2022) garnered love across the world last year and even after one year of its release, the film is getting applauded for its amazing filmography and incredible performances. This time, The Kashmir Files won accolades at Zee Cine Awards 2023 for Best Film, Best Screenplay,…
