BENGALURU: Renowned Santoor maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma passed away on Tuesday in Mumbai at the age of 84. He had been suffering from kidney-related issues for the last six months and was on dialysis. He ultimately succumbed to cardiac arrest. He had composed music with flute legend Pt Hari Prasad Chaurasia for several films such […]
COLOMBO: Sri Lana Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa announced to step down from his post after violent clashes left at least 78 people injured on Monday amid the deepening economic crisis. He tendered his resignation to his brother President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. With the resignation, his Cabinet stands dissolved. For more than a month, protesters across […]
NEW DELHI: Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture Meenakshi Lekhi’s recent visit to Panama, Honduras and Chile provided fresh momentum to India’s ties with them, MEA said on Sunday. “The visit to Panama, Honduras and Chile provided fresh momentum to India’s relations with these countries in central and south America,” MEA stated on […]
VARANASI: Police have begun the procedures to confiscate assets worth Rs 13.5 crores of Nilgiri Infracity’s Managing Director Vikash Singh, his wife Ritu Singh, and their partner Pradeep Yadav. A total of Rs 4 crores worth of properties and valuables were identified for confiscation from Vikash Singh. It included two Jaguar cars which are […]
NEW DELHI: President Ram Nath Kovind is slated to visit Jamaica and St. Vincent & Grenadines from May 15-21, 2022. This will be the first-ever tour of an Indian head of state to the two Caribbean nations. The visit also comes at a time when India and Jamaica are commemorating the 60th anniversary of the […]
NEW DELHI: Punjab and Haryana High Court, in an urgent late night hearing, came to the rescue of Delhi BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga hours after the Mohali court issued a non-bailable warrant against him. In a reprieve for Bagga, the Punjab and Haryana High Court directed that no coercive step be taken against […]
Is Russia in trouble? It is. In a manner of speaking, Vladimir Putin, till the start of 2022 had about him all the signs of a master strategist and a ruthlessly efficient man – a leader that had clear portions of the kind of boldness that China lacked, or the intelligence that the West […]
NEW DELHI: Three more people have been arrested in connection with the violence that rocked Jahangirpuri area allegedly after stone-pelting at Hanuman Jayanti Shobha Yatra on April 16. At least nine people including seven policemen were injured in the violence that created a divide between the Hindu and Muslim communities in the area. With […]
NEW DELHI: Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan will be on his first official visit to Qatar between May 8 and May 10, said the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). He will meet State Minister for Foreign Affairs Soltan bin Saad Al-Muraikhi and Speaker of the Shura Coucil, Hassan bin Abdulla Al-Ghanim […]
CHENNAI: The eldest daughter of musical maestro AR Rahman, Khatija Rahman, walked down the aisle with her fiance, audio engineer Riyasdeen Shaik Mohamed, on Thursday. Rahman took to Instagram to break the news. “May the Almighty bless the couple. Thanking you in advance for your good wishes and love,” he wrote. In the family […]