- Monday, March 03, 2025
QUEEN Elizabeth II will miss Tuesday’s (10) ceremonial opening of Britain’s parliament, as prime minister Boris Johnson tries to reinvigorate his faltering government by unveiling its plans for the coming year. The 96-year-old monarch, who usually presides over the pomp-filled event and reads out her government’s legislative programme from a…
UK SUPERMARKET giant Morrisons announced on Monday (9) it had agreed a rescue deal for British convenience store chain McColl’s that will preserve all 16,000 jobs. Morrisons, Britain’s fourth-largest supermarket chain, beat off competition from forecourt giant EG, whose co-owners – the billionaire Issa brothers – also run UK supermarket…
Indian filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri’s Hindi film The Kashmir Files, which hit theatres in India on March 11 and went on to emerge as one of the most successful films of recent times, has been banned in Singapore. The film is based on the exodus of Kashmir Pandits from the Kashmir Valley…
A NEW UK-India Industry Task Force, a joint commission to increase cross-industry collaboration and push the UK-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA) over the line, was launched on Monday (9). The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) have created the new task force as part…
MANCHESTER MUSEUM has invited young British south Asians passionate about music to join a mentoring programme with an opportunity to travel to India. The collaborative project between Manchester Museum and the Indian Music Experience Museum seeks to explore “rhythm” as a shared language between east and west. “We are inviting…
Filmmaker Chandraprakash Dwivedi on Monday said the team of his upcoming historical film Prithviraj has been respectful in depicting the life of the legendary warrior king Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan on the big screen. Earlier this year, the Delhi High Court had refused to entertain a plea seeking to modify the name of…
Dharma Productions’ upcoming film Mr And Mrs Mahi has gone before cameras, the production house announced on Monday. The cricket drama stars Rajkummar Rao and Janhvi Kapoor in lead roles. It reunites both actors after Maddock Films’ horror-comedy Roohi (2021), which was one of the first few films to release in cinemas after the first wave of the…
BRITAIN’S opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer will offer to resign if he is found by police to have broken Covid rules at a gathering last year, Sky News reported on Monday (9) without citing sources. The 59-year-old, who previously served as the country’s top prosecutor, has led calls for prime minister…
LABOUR politician Lisa Nandy has not ruled herself out of contention for her party’s top position even as its leader Keir Starmer is facing a police probe for potentially breaching lockdown rules a year ago. The alleged offence involving Starmer took place at a gathering in Durham, northern England, in April last…
