- Monday, March 03, 2025
ACCOUNTANCY giant KPMG has agreed to pay a £14.4 million fine for giving false information to regulators prior to the collapse of construction group Carillion, it said after hearings concluded. The penalty was agreed by Britain’s Financial Reporting Council regulator and KPMG, according to a spokesperson for the auditor. Carillion…
RUSSIA has probably lost around a third of the ground forces it deployed to Ukraine and its offensive in the Donbas region “has lost momentum and fallen significantly behind schedule”, British military intelligence said on Sunday (15). “Despite small-scale initial advances, Russia has failed to achieve substantial territorial gains over…
BRITISH prime minister Boris Johnson will fly to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday (15) to pay his condolences following the death of president Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Downing Street said. Johnson’s visit will also “reinforce the close bond between the UK and United Arab Emirates,” the statement said.…
AUSTRALIAN cricket was reeling Sunday (15) after swashbuckling former all-rounder Andrew Symonds was killed in a car crash — another tragic blow after the recent deaths of fellow greats Shane Warne and Rod Marsh. The 46-year-old, who played 26 Tests and 198 one-day internationals from 1998 to 2009, was involved in a…
Three popular star kids – Suhana Khan, Khushi Kapoor, and Agastya Nanda – are set to start their film careers with Zoya Akhtar’s Netflix movie The Archies, the filmmaker announced on Saturday. Suhana Khan and Khushi Kapoor, daughters of superstar Shah Rukh Khan and late Bollywood actor Sridevi, and Agastya Nanda,…
YORKSHIRE County Cricket Club chair Lord Kamlesh Patel said a “very small minority” of people at the organisation are still in denial about what went wrong with it. Yorkshire members approved a package of reforms last month following a racism scandal, paving the way for lucrative England matches to be…
A FORMER South Wales Police officer has been jailed for making false reports about a female student at Swansea University that he had become fixated with. Cardiff Crown Court on Friday (13) ordered Abubakar Masum, 24, to undergo imprisonment for three years and six months. He made multiple reports saying…
INDIA banned wheat exports on Saturday (14), just days after saying it was targeting record shipments this year, as a scorching heat wave curtailed output and domestic prices soared to an all-time high. The government said it would still allow exports backed by already issued letters of credit and to…
Police fired tear gas and used batons Friday in Indian-administered Kashmir to break up a protest against the killing of a minority Hindu by suspected separatist rebels. Clashes are frequent in the divided territory, which is also claimed by Pakistan, but the police operation was the first in the Muslim-majority…
Sri Lanka’s new prime minister struggled Friday to forge a united government and forestall an imminent economic collapse as opposition lawmakers refused to join his cabinet and demanded fresh elections. Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in late Thursday to navigate his country through the worst downturn in its history as an…
