- Saturday, March 01, 2025
A court in the UK has heard that a British MP sexually assaulted a man at a guest house in Pakistan around 12 years ago, according to media reports. Imran Ahmad Khan, the Conservative MP for Wakefield, is on trial at Southwark Crown Court, where he denies sexually assaulting a…
INDIAN traders are exporting 40,000 tons of rice to Sri Lanka in the first major food aid since Colombo secured a credit line from New Delhi. The Indian Ocean island nation of 22 million people is struggling to pay for essential imports after a 70 per cent drop in foreign…
SRI LANKA’S president lost his parliamentary majority on Tuesday (5) as former allies urged his resignation, following days of street protests over the island nation’s crippling economic crisis. Severe shortages of food, fuel and other essentials – along with record inflation and crippling power cuts – have inflicted widespread misery in…
POLITICAL turmoil intensified in Pakistan after the country’s supreme court adjourned on Tuesday (5) without ruling on the legality of political manoeuvres that led prime minister Imran Khan to dissolve the national assembly and call fresh elections. Former cricket star Khan lost his parliamentary majority last week and faced a…
ONE of the UK’s most successful franchise entrepreneurs has sold the McDonald’s franchisee business after two decades. British Indian businessman Atul Pathak OBE sold his business in March 2022, he announced on social media. Pathak has been operating 43 McDonald’s restaurants and employing more than 3,500 staff through his company…
THE latest opportunistic fund by Tristan Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in Raag Hotels, which owns Point A Hotel, for £420 million. The European Property Investors Special Opportunities 6 fund by Tristan Capital will own the property along with minority partners Queensway, a company associated with the Jivraj…
BRITISH prime minister Boris Johnson is planning to visit India by April end with a focus on strengthening bilateral ties, according to official sources. The visit, which is expected around April 22, is long overdue after Johnson was forced to cancel planned visits to India twice last year due to the pandemic. His…
INDIA batsman Cheteshwar Pujara’s debut for English county Sussex has been delayed by visa problems, it was announced Monday (4). Sussex had hoped to have Pujara available for their opening County Championship match at home to Nottinghamshire starting on Thursday (7). But delays in issuing the 34-year-old a visa mean…
Aamir Khan and Ranbir Kapoor, who shared the screen space in Rajkumar Hirani’s all-time blockbuster PK (2014), are apparently coming together to headline an upcoming film. If reports are to be believed, the work on the untitled project has already begun. Sharing more details, a source in the know informs an Indian publication that Khan…
THE UK’s health service has launched a new review to promote the importance of Vitamin D and identify ways to improve intake across the population, especially among south Asians. Vitamin D deficiency is linked to rickets in children and bone pain and muscle weakness in adults. A call for evidence was launched…
