- Sunday, February 23, 2025
SURVIVORS of India’s deadliest stampede in more than a decade recalled on Wednesday the horror of being crushed at a vastly overcrowded Hindu religious gathering where 121 people were killed. A police report said more than 250,000 people attended the event in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state, more than triple…
FORMER England batter Geoffrey Boycott announced on Tuesday (2) that he has been diagnosed with throat cancer for the second time and will undergo surgery. Boycott, 83, learned last week that the cancer had returned after previously being treated for the illness in 2002 with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Boycott will…
THE suspect in the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie has refused a plea deal on Tuesday (2) that would have reduced his state prison sentence but subjected him to a federal terrorism-related charge, according to his lawyer. Hadi Matar, 26, has been held without bail since the attack, in…
UK Election: THE LABOUR Party is expected to gain a record number of seats in Thursday’s national election, according to a forecast by polling company Survation. Survation’s central scenario shows Keir Starmer’s Labour winning 484 of the 650 seats in parliament, surpassing the 418 seats won by Tony Blair in…
THE ITALIAN police has arrested the owner of an agricultural company who abandoned a 31-year-old Indian worker on the road without medical assistance after his arm was severed by heavy farm machinery, leading to his death. Satnam Singh’s arm was severed by a strawberry wrapping machine in Lazio, near Rome,…
A COACH company is suing its former accountant, Mohammed Asif Khan, for £1 million, alleging he used company funds to pay escorts. Khan, a former finance director at North of England Coachworks, is accused of spending around £160,000 on escorts, including £56,000 on Gemma Massey, previously known as Britain’s highest-paid…
RICHA CHADHA and Ali Fazal’s debut production Girls Will Be Girls has bagged the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2024. Taking to Instagram, the Heeramandi actress expressed gratitude by sharing a film poster and a lengthy note. The note read, “Before…
NEWHAM is set to celebrate South Asian Heritage Month from July 18 to August 17 with a vibrant and diverse programme under the theme ‘Free to be Me.’ The month-long celebration aims to raise awareness and honour the rich British South Asian heritage in Newham. It promises a rich cultural…
NEARLY 1.8 million people in the UK now owe at least £50,000 in student debt and 50 people owe more than £200,000 each, the BBC reported. The figures from the Student Loans Company (SLC) revealed that over 61,000 people have debts exceeding £100,000. These statistics were disclosed following a Freedom…
PRIME MINISTER Rishi Sunak kicked off his campaign with a distribution centre visit in eastern England in the early hours of Tuesday (2), the penultimate day of campaigning ahead of polling day on Thursday (4), urging voters to not “do something they regret”. All pre-election opinion polls indicate a strong…
