- Wednesday, March 05, 2025
Only the brave would bet against Novak Djokovic retaining his Wimbledon title or Rafa Nadal keeping his calendar-year Grand Slam hopes alive, but the form and fitness of the duo offers others a rare opportunity at the grasscourt major this year. A stop-start year due to being unvaccinated against COVID-19 means world number three Djokovic…
While the fortunes of world number one Iga Swiatek and home hope Emma Raducanu are set to dominate the early headlines at Wimbledon this year, a quartet of former champions will be eagerly eyeing the wide-open women’s draw. French Open champion Swiatek arrives at SW19 in a rich vein of form and riding a…
The decision of the US Supreme Court to overturn its historic Roe v Wade abortion rights that recognised a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion and legalised it nationwide, has been greeted with widespread criticism from American celebrities. Several celebrities joined her in reacting to the Supreme Court’s decision to…
Priti Patel may be moved “sideways” from Home Office to being Conservatives Party chief to replace Oliver Dowden whose resignation has taken the Tories by surprise. Dowden put in his papers as the Conservatives chair earlier this week after the ruling party suffered crushing defeats in the by-elections to two…
Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt thinks that he may suffer from undiagnosed prosopagnosia, the inability to recognise people’s faces that’s otherwise known as face blindness. The 58-year-old opened up about his possible medical condition, and the impact it may have on his reputation, in a recent interview with GQ. The actor…
There was no delay on part of the Gujarat government in requisitioning the Army to deal with post-Godhra 2002 Gujarat riots, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said and noted that former Punjab DGP KPS Gill had termed the state government’s action as “prompt and neutral”. He also attacked Congress over anti-Sikh riots in 1984,…
An anti-terror court in Pakistan has quietly sentenced the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack mastermind and a senior member of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Sajid Mir. Mir, who is among India‘s most wanted for his role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, was awarded 15 years in jail term. Mir was LeT’s operations manager for the…
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing another brewing rebellion against his leadership of the Conservative Party after the governing party faced two crushing by-election defeats. In a triple blow, Johnson not only lost a Tory stronghold in the southern England constituency of Tiverton & Honiton and an important seat in Wakefield in northern…
Khushi Patel, a biomedical student from the United Kingdom, has been declared the winner of the Miss India Worldwide 2022, the longest-running Indian pageant outside of India. Vaidehi Dongre from the US was declared the first runner up on Friday night while Shrutika Mane was adjudged the second runner up.…
WINCHESTER’S Youth member of Parliament (MP) Dev Sharma has been named volunteer of the year in the ‘Your UK Parliament Awards 2022’. Sharma, a sixth-form pupil at Winchester College, has been awarded for his work on tackling junk-food advertising to children and young people. The awards recognise people across the…
