- Monday, March 03, 2025
Award-winning English stand-up comedian and actor Paul Chowdhry’s father Darshan Singh Chowdhry passed away on Wednesday, May 4th. Chowdhry took to social media to share a touching post remembering his father. “On Wednesday, May 4th, my father transcended from his mortal life, leaving an incomparable legacy,” he wrote. In his…
A FASCIST group co-founder has said he wants to see a pre-World War era Britain when it was “overwhelmingly white”. Alex Davies, who set up the now-proscribed outfit NS131, told Winchester Crown Court that his goal can be achieved by “compulsorily deporting” ethnic minorities from the UK “along the lines…
INDIA’s Supreme Court on Wednesday (11) suspended a colonial-era sedition law that activists say is often used by prime minister Narendra Modi’s government to target free speech and dissent. Modi’s critics say that the law, which was once used by Britain to target independence hero Mahatma Gandhi, has been abused by his…
A Republican Senator has lifted the “hold” on the Senate confirmation of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who has been nominated by US president Joe Biden as the country’s next ambassador to India. In a notice to the Senate on March 10, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley had said that he…
LONDON mayor Sadiq Khan said he endured heightened online racist abuse when Donald Trump was the American president. His comment at Stanford University in California on Tuesday (10) came amid debates over allowing the former president back on Twitter after billionaire Elon Musk struck a deal to take over the…
INDONESIA’s “unpredictable” palm oil export policies may help Malaysia emerge as the dominant supplier to India, the world’s top buyer of the edible oil, industry sources said. Indonesia is the world’s biggest palm oil producer but its erratic export policies, including the most recent ban announced on April 22, have…
Ferries sailing regularly in and out of UK ports will be required to pay their employees the equivalent of the country’s minimum wage, the government announced Tuesday (10). The Department for Transport said new laws, if passed, would protect tens of thousands of seafarers and crack down on companies who refuse…
COGNITIVE impairment resulting from severe Covid-19 is similar to that sustained between 50 and 70 years of age, a new study has found. According to a team of scientists from the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London, this cognitive impairment is equivalent to ageing 20 years or losing 10…
Racist, divisive politics which pit Hindus against Muslims and Indians against Pakistanis must stop, say MPs and the mayor of London. The issue is something Eastern Eye has reported several times. But it has reared its head once again after last week’s local elections (5 May). Sources have told this newspaper that…
HEAD of state Queen Elizabeth II missed Tuesday’s (10) ceremonial opening of the UK parliament for the first time in nearly 60 years, handing the duty to her heir Prince Charles in a clear sign of the looming transition of power. The 96-year-old monarch usually presides over the pomp-filled event and reads…
