• Tuesday, March 04, 2025

UK retail sales drop as soaring inflation bites

BRITISH retail sales by volume dropped in May as soaring inflation caused consumers to limit spending, especially on food, official data showed Friday (24). Sales fell 0.5 per cent compared with a rise of 0.4 per cent in April, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. April’s data was sharply…

Pakistan: Students may not get new books in new academic…

Pakistan paper association has warned that due to the paper crisis in the country, books will not be available to students in the new academic year starting August 2022. While the cause of the paper crisis is global inflation, the current paper crisis in Pakistan is also due to the…

‘We cannot carry on with business as usual’: Britain’s Conservative…

Oliver Dowden, the chairman of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative party, resigned on Friday, saying it could not carry on with business as usual after two crushing by-election defeats and someone had to take responsibility. “Yesterday’s parliamentary by-elections are the latest in a run of very poor results for…

‘Aashiq Hoon is a tribute to the music of the…

Music composer Zain Khan is currently on cloud nine as his latest single “Aashiq Hoon,” featuring popular television stars Mohsin Khan and Aneri Vijan, has turned out to be a massive success. The song has been trending at No. 1 on YouTube for several days now and has already clocked…

Three men charged over robbery of former world boxing champion…

Three men have been charged with conspiracy to commit robbery more than two months after former world boxing champion Amir Khan was threatened and robbed at gunpoint in east London. On April 18, a few men approached Khan in Leyton and robbed him of his expensive watch after threatening the…

Racism in aid sector is real, it must be challenged…

BRITISH MPs in a report published on Thursday (23) have called on the development aid sector to recognise and tackle racism in its practices. It added that racism in aid sector is a hangover of colonialism. The international development committee in its report-Racism in the aid sector, said that international…

‘Largest python ever’ captured in US’ Florida: It’s 18 feet…

A team of biologists recently captured the largest Burmese python ever discovered in the state of Florida, US. The female python weighed 215 pounds (98 kg), was nearly 18 feet long and had 122 developing eggs, according to the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. Researchers also found hoof cores in the…

No ranking points on offer but Wimbledon no exhibition

Wimbledon starts on Monday without Russia’s world number one Daniil Medvedev and Belarus’s former top-ranked Victoria Azarenka but the grasscourt Grand Slam will hardly feel like an exhibition event despite no ranking points on offer. The 2022 edition of the world’s most prestigious tennis tournament will be held without points…

London has produced the most Wimbledon winners since 1877!

Ahead of the 2022 Wimbledon championship, bettingexpert.com has analysed 145 years worth of data to find out which city has produced the most Wimbledon winners since the tournament’s inception in 1877. The places of birth of all the winners in singles, doubles and mixed tournaments were collected and according to the results…

Kyrgios poised for major breakthrough at Wimbledon: Evert

Nick Kyrgios could finally be ready to deliver on the promise he has flashed throughout his turbulent career when he brings his powerful game to the grass courts of Wimbledon next week, tennis great Chris Evert said. While the hugely talented Australian often bamboozles opponents with an array of incredible…