- Monday, March 10, 2025
Filmmaker Hansal Mehta on Friday announced that his upcoming directorial “Faraaz” will be screened at the 2022 edition of the BFI London Film Festival. Backed by filmmaker Anubhav Sinha and producer Bhushan Kumar, the film will depict the Holey Artisan cafe attack that shook Bangladesh in 2016. Mehta, known for…
A review published yesterday by Dame Rachel de Souza, the Children’s Commissioner for England, has found that there are fewer ‘traditional’ nuclear family units in the UK. To tackle ethnic disparities, and as part of Inclusive Britain, (the Government’s response to the 2021 Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities) –…
A joint funeral was held for two Indian-origin boys who drowned in a Northern Ireland lake as their college mates mourned the “exemplary young men”. Reuven Simon and Joseph Sebastian, both aged 16, were out cycling on Monday but they got into difficulty while swimming at Lough Enagh in Londonderry.…
An NHS nurse has alleged that a Gatwick parking company took her BMW on a huge road trip while she was abroad, according to a media report. Kajal Bhagwandas, 30, has said that when she returned from a week-long family holiday in Mexico the car had 600 extra miles on…
On the auspicious day of Ganesh Chaturthi, India’s external affairs minister Dr S. Jaishankar visited the BAPS Hindu Mandir site in Abu Dhabi. He was accompanied by an esteemed delegation of senior officials from the Ministry of External Affairs, including the Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra, Ambassador Sanjay Sudhir, Joint…
The death toll from floods in Pakistan has reached near 1,200 as 19 more people lost their lives in the last 24 hours. At least 1,186 people have died since June 14 from the rains and floods, Geo News report citing National Disaster Management Authority’s (NDMA’s) statement. According to the…
England dropped out-of-form opener Jason Roy and welcomed back fit-again seamers Chris Woakes and Mark Wood in their squad for the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia beginning next month. Roy has been an integral part of England’s white-ball squad and his explosive batting at the top of the order embodied…
Greenpeace UK on Friday said it had dropped 18 large boulders on the seabed in a marine conservation zone off the coast of southwest England to prevent “destructive” industrial fishing. The environmental campaigners sailed to the western part of the Channel between the UK and France, loaded with the boulders…
Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday was sentenced to three years in jail with hard labour after a court found her guilty of electoral fraud. Zabuthiri Township judge Maung Maung Khin handed down the sentence at a junta-controlled closed court in the Naypyitaw Detention Centre, News Agency,…
Laxman Narasimhan, a veteran in leading and advising global consumer-facing brands, has been named as the new CEO of coffee giant Starbucks, joining a growing cohort of Indian-origin business leaders at the helm of global corporations. Narasimhan, 55 was previously the CEO of UK-based Reckitt Benckiser, a multinational consumer health,…
