- Saturday, March 01, 2025
BRITISH police said they had charged a 29-year-old man who was armed with a knife when he confronted two ministry of defence police officers near prime minister Boris Johnson‘s official residence in central London on Monday (18). Prashanth Kandaiah was charged with attempted grevious bodily harm and possession of a pointed/bladed article and…
BRITISH MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi met Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann in Chandigarh as they discussed policy changes required to bring investment into the north Indian state. They also exchanged their views about enhancing trade and tourism in Punjab through greater connectivity, especially direct flights from London and Birmingham to…
ON ITS news website, the BBC, in an article entitled Why did Will Smith hit Chris Rock at the Oscars? discusses various theories, including ‘There were elements of performative alphamale behaviour at play here. An instinctiveness for a man to harm another man who insults his partner’. In fact, this particular theory…
A rising teenage boxing star, dubbed the ‘next Amir Khan’, died in a tragic car accident in Wolverhampton, his promoter confirmed. Midlands-born Ali Tazeem, 18, died in the accident after a car and bus collided at a junction, reports said. Three people are believed to have been left injured, with…
Tan France, one of the stars of Netflix’s popular makeover show Queer Eye, has revealed that he used to bleach his skin when he was younger. “I was just a child and I felt so much pressure to be lighter. The shame about my skin I experienced outside the house followed…
BRITISH prime minister Boris Johnson will face angry lawmakers on Tuesday (19) for the first time since being fined for breaking his own coronavirus laws by attending a party at his Downing Street office. An embattled Johnson last week became the first modern British leader to be fined for breaking the…
BRITISH prime minister’s trade envoy to Uganda Lord Dolar Popat led a successful trade mission to the country last week to boost bilateral relations with the region, a statement said. Following the visit, a record £2.5 billion coverage was made available by UK export finance to help industrialise Uganda, the…
Jos Buttler’s 103 and a hat-trick by Yuzvendra Chahal helped Rajasthan Royals edge out Kolkata Knight Riders by seven runs in a nail-biting IPL contest on Monday. The England batter smashed his second IPL century this season to power Royals to 217 for five — the highest total of this…
Yash Raj Films on Tuesday unveiled the trailer of their much-anticipated film Jayeshbhai Jordaar, starring Ranveer Singh in the lead role of a Gujarati man. At the trailer launch event, Singh said that his character in the film is a role that Bollywood has never attempted before. Jayeshbhai Jordaar deals with the social stigma of…
British boxer Amir Khan said he had been robbed at gunpoint in London but that both he and his wife were unharmed in the incident. “Just had my watch taken off me at gun point in East London, Leyton,” Khan wrote on Twitter. “I crossed the road with Faryal (Makhdoom),…
