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Record numbers rush for jabs as UK opens COVID vaccines to all adults

More than 700,000 COVID-19 jabs were booked in Britain as people rushed to get vaccinated after the National Health Service opened up its vaccination programme to all adults aged 18 and over, the......

China, WHO acted too slowly on COVID-19: Independent panel

An independent panel has slammed China and the World Health Organisation for "early shortcomings" in the initial response to the coronavirus pandemic. IMAGE: Medical workers get ready inside a bus......

India, Lanka battle fire on board oil tanker, 1 crew dead

The Sri Lankan Navy with assistance from Indian ships was battling for a second day on Friday to douse a major fire raging on an oil tanker carrying crude from Kuwait to India that left one of its......

Oil tanker carrying crude to India from Kuwait catches fire off Lanka

An oil tanker carrying crude from Kuwait to India burst into flames off the eastern coast of Sri Lanka on Thursday, leaving one of its 23 crew members missing and another injured, a navy spokesman......

Lockdown Times: A unique Goan perspective!

Sheela Jaywant invites you to explore the GoaWriters's interesting look at the lockdown. IMAGE: Authors Shashi Deshpande, second from left, Jerry Pinto, right, and Damodar Mauzo, second from......

Is Nirav Modi a Suicide Risk?

The British home secretary has granted permission for jeweller Nirav Modi's extradition to India.During their arguments in a London court, his lawyers claimed Modi suffers from mental illness and......

PNB scam: Nirav Modi to know his fate on Thu

Wanted diamond merchant Nirav Modi, who remains behind bars in a London prison as he contests his extradition to India on charges of fraud and money laundering in the estimated $2-billion Punjab......

Nirav Modi's remand extended till Feb 25

Wanted diamond merchant Nirav Modi appeared via videolink from his London prison for a regular call-over hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday, when he was further remanded in custody......

Can Julian Assange 'save' Nirav Modi from being extradited?

Nirav Modi's lawyer raised a British court's judgment blocking the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US on mental health grounds, as the embattled diamond merchant appeared via......

UK court extends Nirav Modi's remand till Jan 7

Fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi, wanted in India in connection with the estimated $2-billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam case, was on Tuesday further remanded in custody until January 7 by......

Why the Tragedy King turned to Comedy

After repeatedly essaying the role of doomed lover, Dilip Kumar, a thinking actor, found it diffcult to break out of in real life.Heeding his psychoanalyst, he flirted with some frothy roles and......

'A film like Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam just happens'

Was romance invented so that Sanjay Leela Bhansali would one day make Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, which released on June 18, 1999, asks Subhash K Jha. I was a normal movie maniac until I saw Hum Dil......

'I got more praise than the hero'

Movie veteran Chandrashekhar, best known for films like Cha Cha Cha, Surang and Street Singer and playing the role of Arya Sumant on the television serial Ramayan, passed into the ages on June 16,......

A Playlist Everyone Must Listen To!

Half of 2021 is almost over, yet no sign of the big Bollywood chartbuster. The Hindi film music scene's downward spiral continues. How one wishes things could go back to the way they were 50 years......

Bollywood celebrates Maa!

'There is nothing your mama can't fix!' Photograph: Kind courtesy Kajal Aggarwal/Instagram Kajal Aggarwal wishes her tribe of stellar women, including mum Suman: 'Happy Mother's Day to......

Why these Olympians are Special!

Megan Jones and Celia Quansah are a special duo. The pair, who will representing Great Britain in Rugby Sevens at the Tokyo Olympics, are a couple! This will be Jones's second Olympics, --......

1900 Olympics: The only time cricket was played at Games

With the Tokyo Olympics set to start on July 23, here is some trivia from the first two editions of the modern Olympics held in 1896 and 1900. 1896, Greece Olympics: IMAGE: Greece's Spyridon Louis......

'Indian women's hockey team can create history in Tokyo'

IMAGE: 'The way they played in Argentina and Germany recently, I feel they are 90 per cent ready'. Photograph: Hockey India/Twitter Fine-tuning a few aspects of their game in the run-up to......

Vinesh storms to gold; rises to World No 1 ranking

IMAGE: The only Indian woman wrestler to have qualified for the Tokyo Games, Vinesh Phogat blanked Canada's Diana Mary Helen Weicker 4-0 in the 53kg title clash in Rome. Living up to expectations,......

How Indian hockey players are spending time in isolation

IMAGE: India hockey goalkeeper PR Sreejesh, right, with Rupinder Pal Singh at the SAI Centre in Bengaluru. Photograph: PR Sreejesh/Instagram Locked inside the Sports Authority of India centre in......

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