- Sunday, February 23, 2025
A Pakistani American man in the US has admitted that he fraudulently obtained a federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan of over $5 million meant to help small businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic. Azhar Sarwar Rana, 30, of Newton, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before US district judge Esther Salas to…
MANISHA TAILOR MBE became the first woman and first person of South Asian heritage to be promoted to assistant head of coaching at Queens Park Rangers (QPR). In her new role, Tailor will assist Chris Ramsey, who has helped mentor her in recent times. She has been the lead foundation…
INDIA ended a 149-year-old tradition of moving the government of Jammu & Kashmir state between the winter capital in Jammu, to its summer base in Srinagar last week, according to a report in The Times. The 'office shifting', with an expense of £20 million per move, involved the difficulty of…
BILLIONAIRE Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance is again pursuing a deal with Glencore to refinance his European aluminium business, which includes Europe’s largest aluminium smelter at Dunkirk, reported The Times. Glencore is an Anglo-Swiss multinational commodity trading and mining company with headquarters in Baar, Switzerland. An agreement to forward-sell aluminium production to…
TEN countries in the EU said they will accept the Indian-made version of the AstraZeneca jab at their borders following anger from Britons who unknowingly received the vaccine, reported The Telegraph. The countries include Greece and Spain, two of Britain's most popular overseas holiday destinations. Besides, eight EU states including…
TENS of millions of people in India were suffering Friday (2) under a severe heatwave that has pushed the temperature to a nine-year high in Delhi as monsoon rains run behind schedule. Heatwaves have killed over 6,500 people in the world's second-most populous nation since 2010, and scientists say climate change…
A US media report has said that the office of Vice President Kamala Harris has been rocked by claims that staffers are mistreated and that Chief of Staff Tina Flournoy has created a blame culture, reported The Daily Mail. According to a report in Politico, a tense atmosphere with low morale…
SAHEB RAO SHINDE's family thought the worst was over when the 65-year-old recovered from Covid-19 last month at his home in western India. But a few weeks later, the revenue-stamp vendor lost sight in one eye. After a catastrophic second wave of Covid-19 in India since April which has seen…
INDIA became the third country to pass 400,000 Covid-19 deaths, official data showed Friday (2), as the country's vast vaccination drive slows. Total deaths are 400,312, according to the health ministry -- behind only the US and Brazil -- with total cases almost 30.5 million. Many experts suspect India's true…
AN Indian tribunal put on hold on Thursday (1) a directive to ban a senior executive of US money manager Franklin Templeton (FT) after he challenged it saying the market regulator had "overstepped" its powers in taking the decision. Vivek Kudva, head of Asia Pacific distribution at FT, was barred…
