Several film personalities have been meeting Chief Minister Vijay ever since he assumed office, and the latest to join the list are the actor couple Sneha and Prasanna. The visit quickly grabbed the attention especially because Sneha shares a long association with Vijay on screen. Accompanied by her family, the actress met the Chief Minister…
The wife of a British artist has launched legal action against an artisan cheesemaker after an inquest concluded that a listeria-contaminated cheese contributed to his death.Roger Parkes, a painter and chef from Chichester in West Sussex, died in February 2023 after falling seriously ill days after eating cheese from a Valentine’s gift box purchased by…
Comedian Pranit More (File Photo) GURGAON: A fresh controversy has erupted around comedian Pranit More’s show after another video from the programme went viral on social media, in which a woman from the audience was allegedly seen making comments about male cadavers’ private parts.The purported clip has triggered criticism online, with several users questioning the…
Archaeologists working in western Slovakia did not expect the perimeter ditch of an early farming settlement to become one of Europe’s most unsettling burial puzzles. But as excavation layers were removed from the Neolithic site near modern-day Vráble, what emerged was not a typical cemetery. It was a boundary feature filled with disarticulated, headless human…
Benchmark equity indices gave up most of their intraday gains on Wednesday, with the Sensex ending marginally higher and the Nifty closing in the red as renewed hostilities between the United States and Iran dampened investor sentiment.The 30-share BSE Sensex rose 64.42 points, or 0.09%, to settle at 73,983.18.The index had surged as much as…
Arjuna Award trophy, being held by a recipient, during the National Sports and Adventure Awards 2023 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi. (left), and Union sports minister Mansukh Mandaviya (Photo/Agencies) More than six months after the selection committee submitted its recommendations, the National Sports Awards for 2025-26 are yet to be announced, leading to…
UNSW, Bristol, York and Liverpool campuses approved to expand higher education presence in India NEW DELHI: India’s foreign university push gathered momentum on Tuesday with the Centre granting Letters of Approval (LoAs) to three globally ranked institutions — the University of Bristol (QS World University Rankings 2026: 51), the University of York and Australia’s University…
Actress Madhoo fondly recalled her first encounter with the legendary Sridevi, a moment that deeply impacted her. As a devoted fan, Madhoo admired Sridevi’s work long before her own debut. The coincidence of their films, ‘Lamhe’ and ‘Phool Aur Kaante’, releasing simultaneously left her overwhelmed. She met Sridevi during a dance rehearsal, a brief but…
The chief of the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF), Allah Nazar Baloch, has criticised Pakistan’s policies in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), saying the growing resistance movement in the region shows that demands for rights and self-determination cannot be suppressed through force.According to the report published in The Balochistan Post, Baloch said the ongoing struggle by…
For decades, scientists believed that an average life expectancy of 90 years was a distant milestone that no country would reach anytime soon. Then a landmark study published in The Lancet challenged that assumption. Researchers projected that South Korean women born in 2030 could live an average of 90.8 years, making them the first population…
