Our BureauKuwait city A devastating fire engulfed a multi-storey building, housing predominantly Indians, early on June 12. At least 49 people were killed, injuring more than 50 others, officials reported. The blaze erupted in the six-storey building located in the...
Our Bureau London Oxford University has agreed to return a 500-year-old bronze idol of Saint Tirumankai Alvar, believed to be stolen from a temple in Tamil Nadu, to India. The statue was acquired in 1967 from Sotheby’s auction house. An...
Our Bureau Kobe Kamal Kishore started his term as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's special representative for disaster risk reduction. On May 20, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) welcomed the arrival of Mr Kishore, who started his...
Our Bureau New Delhi According to a Reuters report, a US lobby group representing tech giants Google, Amazon and Apple has asked India to rethink its proposed EU-like competition law, arguing regulations against data use and preferential treatment of partners...
Our Bureau Southampton, UK Lord Patel of Bradford, along with Justine Greening have been appointed as Chancellors of the University of Southampton. This is the first time the university has appointed dual Chancellors, with the pair succeeding comedian Ruby Wax....
Our Bureau Bengaluru Eric Garcetti, the US ambassador to India, along with US Consul General Chris Hodges held a meeting with Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman S Somanath and discussed space collaboration, including the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar mission,...
Our Bureau Cannes Payal Kapadia created history by becoming the first Indian filmmaker to win the Grand Prix award at the Cannes Film Festival for her debut fiction film "All We Imagine as Light". The film bagged the award, the...
Our Bureau Cannes Anasuya Sengupta, one of the lead stars of Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov’s Hindi-language movie “The Shameless”, bagged the Best Actress award in the Un Certain Regard category at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. The Un Certain Regard,...
Our Bureau Washington The US Department of State has announced the US-India Business Council (USIBC), the Gupta-Klinsky India Institute at Johns Hopkins University (GKII-JHU), and the American India Foundation (AIF) as the three new anchor partners of the US-India Alliance...
Our Bureau Cannes India with its young talent rocked at the 77th Cannes Film Festival with Chidananda S. Naik's "Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know..." winning the first prize of La Cinef here. The Mysuru doctor-turned filmmaker made the...
