Month: January 2025

Film producer Vipul Shah’s Sunshine Pictures files draft papers for IPO to raise funds

January 3, 2025 admin

Vipul Shah, producer of The Kerala Story. File. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI Film and television producer-director Vipul Shah-backed Sunshine Pictures Ltd has filed draft papers with the market regulator Sebi to raise funds through an initial public offering (IPO). The IPO comprises a total offer size of 83.75 lakh equity shares including a fresh…

Business

Venezuela’s government offers $100K reward for whereabouts of opposition’s presidential candidate

January 3, 2025 admin

Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González. File | Photo Credit: AP Venezuela’s government on Thursday (January 2, 2025) announced a $100,000 reward for information on the whereabouts of Edmundo González, the opposition candidate who claims to have defeated President Nicolás Maduro in last year’s election. The announcement came eight days before Venezuela’s next presidential term is…

World

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Calls Koneru Humpy “A Sporting Icon” After Meeting With Chess Ace

January 3, 2025 admin

Chess Grandmaster Koneru Humpy met Prime Minister Narendra Modi.© X/@humpy_koneru Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday called Grandmaster Koneru Humpy “a sporting icon” after she met him following her recent triumph in the FIDE Women’s World Rapid Chess Championship in New York. With her family in tow, Humpy met the PM and described…

Sports

Top European diplomats urge inclusive transition in Syria visit

January 3, 2025 admin

This handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency SANA shows France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot (C-R), Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (L) meeting with Syria’s new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa (C) and Asaad Shaybani, Foreign Minister for the interim Syrian government (R) in Damascus on January 3, 2025. Visiting French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot…

World

Israel Army says intercepted missile, drone launched from Yemen

January 3, 2025 admin

Much of Yemen is controlled by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who have been firing missiles and drones at Israel — as well as at ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden — in what they say is solidarity with Palestinians | Photo Credit: AFP Israel’s military reported that it shot down a missile and…

World

At least 30 people killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza as stalled ceasefire talks set to resume

January 3, 2025 admin

Palestinians gather around a car hit in an Israeli strike, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in the central Gaza Strip on January 3, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters At least 30 people, including children, were killed in Gaza by Israeli strikes overnight and into Friday morning, hospital staff said, as sirens also sounded across Israel and…

World

Biden blocks U.S.-Japan steel deal

January 3, 2025 admin

File image. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday announced he has blocked the controversial $14.9 billion sale of U.S. Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel, citing a strategic need to protect domestic industry. “This acquisition would place one of America’s largest steel producers under foreign control and create risk for our national…

World

2nd Test: Ryan Rickelton, Temba Bavuma Centuries Put South Africa In Strong Position vs Pakistan

January 3, 2025 admin

South Africa’s Ryan Rickelton and Temba Bavuma on Day 1 of the second Test vs Pakistan.© AFP Ryan Rickelton and Temba Bavuma hit centuries and batted South Africa into a strong position on the first day of the second Test against Pakistan at Newlands on Friday. South Africa were 316 for four at…

Sports

Average Less Than Jasprit Bumrah: Virat Kohli’s Embarrassing Record A New Low

January 3, 2025 admin

Virat Kohli was dismissed for 17 runs in first innings of SCG Test© AFP Questions around Virat Kohli‘s Test career are bound to intensify, with the poster boy of Indian cricket continuing on an embarrassing path with the bat. For the 6th time since the start of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Down Under, Virat…

Sports

Court Sentences 28 Convicts To Life Imprisonment In Kasganj Violence Case

January 3, 2025 admin

Lucknow: A special NIA court here sentenced 28 convicts to life imprisonment on Friday in connection with the Kasganj violence case. Special judge Vivekanand Sharan Tripathi also imposed a fine of Rs 80,000 on each convict. On January 2, the special NIA court here convicted 28 people in connection with the murder of Chandan Gupta,…

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