- Monday, March 10, 2025
The European Commission said Thursday it will soon reply to complaints received from MEPs about British sewage allegedly being poured into waters shared with the EU. The EU environment and fisheries commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius received a letter from the three members of the European Parliament about the alleged sewage disposal…
London’s Metropolitan Police said on Thursday that Britain’s police watchdog had decided not to investigate an incident in which the car of a Black athlete was stopped in the capital earlier this month for the second time. Portuguese 400m runner Ricardo dos Santos was stopped in the early hours of…
British energy bills will jump 80% to an average of 3,549 pounds ($4,188) a year from October, regulator Ofgem said on Friday, calling it a “crisis” that needed to be tackled by urgent and decisive government intervention. Ofgem CEO Jonathan Brearley said the rise would have a massive impact on…
The Spanish authorities have declared that women should swim topless in public pools to end the sexualisation of their bodies, and also fight discrimination. Catalan authorities have launched an advertising campaign to support a woman’s right to go topless after a complaint that they had been stopped from doing so,…
A Silicon Valley start-up has been converting Indian-accented voices using Artificial intelligence to make them sound American, according to media reports. The start-up Sanas has told the BBC that its technology could overcome accent-based prejudice and reduce racist abuse faced by staff. But, the firm has been accused of ‘bias and racism’…
An American woman was arrested in the US state of Texas on Thursday after a video of her racially abusing and assaulting Indian-American women went viral on social media. The incident took place in Dallas, Texas on Wednesday night. The attacker, who claims to be a Mexican born in the…
British finance minister Nadhim Zahawi said more help was on its way for consumers and businesses struggling with the soaring cost of energy, after the regulator said on Friday (26) bills would rise by 80 per cent on average from October. Zahawi said he was working on support options for…
Officials of the UK’s Government Legal Department have attended a ‘Queer Leadership’ conference on taxpayers’ money, leaving attorney general Suella Braverman “supremely disappointed”. “A small number” of civil servants are believed to have taken part in the diversity training in May, despite the top government lawyer’s order to cut on…
Albanian police will be brought to the Kent coast to provide the UK authorities with intelligence and to help processing and removal of migrants. Britain on Thursday (25) said it would work with the southern European country to quickly process and repatriate the large number of Albanians who cross the…
LABOUR’S deputy leader Angela Rayner has defended the party’s decision to raise concerns over alleged human rights breaches in Indian Kashmir, saying, “we stand up for human rights and we will never shirk from that responsibility”. In an exclusive interview with Eastern Eye, Rayner said Labour would be respectful in politics,…
