- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
A trainee officer sacked from the Met Police has won a discrimination claim against the force. Shafi Karim worked as a probationary officer for five before he was dismissed in 2021 after his bosses raised concerns about his hearing abilities. He was advised to use a Rogers Pen wireless microphone…
On his 56th birthday on January 6, Oscar-winning music composer A R Rahman shared more information on his metaverse project Katraar, a digital platform aimed at providing opportunities to independent musicians and artists and enabling them to list and monetize their creations in music and other art forms. The music director,…
More than a quarter of a million people in England and Wales identify with a different gender from their sex registered at birth, the countries’ first such census data showed on Friday. The once-a-decade questionnaire, conducted last year, also revealed around 1.5 million people gave their sexual orientation as LGBTQ,…
The pilot of the November 26 Air India flight from New York to Delhi that witnessed the unsavoury event of an inebriated man urinating on an elderly female co-passenger, made the traumatised flyer wait for nearly two hours before allotting her a fresh seat, a co-flyer has said in his…
Actress-turned-social activist Somy Ali who has often spoken about physical abuse by ex-boyfriend and actor Salman Khan has now broached the topic once again. The Pakistani-American actor took to Instagram to share a post, where she revealed that she “chose to have affairs” because of the “treatment” meted out to…
The frequency with which people travel and the variety of places visited are important factors, with those who travel more than 15 miles away from home more likely to report being in generally good health. Those who visit a wider range of locations are more likely to see friends and…
While getting more exercise, eating right, and making new friends are all good habits, new CU Boulder research suggests the addition of gardening can have a powerful impact. Funded by the American Cancer Society, the first-ever, randomized, controlled trial of community gardening found that those who started gardening ate more…
Pakistan’s central bank’s foreign exchange reserves plummeted to an eight-year low of over $5.5 billion amidst fear of default, according to a media report on Friday. The forex reserves have dwindled despite efforts by the government to shore up its economy. According to a report by the Dawn newspaper, the…
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will on Saturday meet leaders of England’s health service, as it faces one of its toughest-ever winters as flu and COVID-19 spread amid strike action by frontline staff who say high inflation has eroded their salaries. Ambulances have been queuing outside hospitals, facing long waits to…
The critically acclaimed Pakistani film Joyland, which revolves around a patriarchal family craving for a baby boy to continue the family line while their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance group and falls for a trans woman, has recently been shortlisted for the Oscars, becoming the first ever film to…
