- Saturday, March 01, 2025
Getting screened and tested early for cancer is a personal battle, Sajid Javid revealed. Speaking to Eastern Eye, the health secretary, disclosed how his late father was diagnosed too late for the illness. “My father died from cancer, but he died from, firstly, lung cancer, then it spread everywhere,” Javid said.…
An Indian court granted bail Wednesday to three students jailed for celebrating India’s defeat to arch-rival Pakistan in a T20 World Cup cricket match last year, their lawyer said. The students were arrested in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in October and charged with sedition just days after…
Sri Lanka announced nationwide 13-hour daily power cuts from Thursday and more hospitals suspended routine surgeries after running out of life-saving medicines, as the cash-strapped island’s economic crisis deepened. The South Asian nation of 22 million people is in its worst economic spiral since independence in 1948, sparked by an…
Days after her remarks on hijab made headlines, Miss Universe 2021 Harnaaz Sandhu on Wednesday said as a youth of the country she simply shared her perspective when asked to comment on the issue. The 24-year-old, who won the coveted pageant earlier this year, said the matter in question was something she…
US president Joe Biden’s deputy national security adviser for economics Daleep Singh will be in New Delhi on March 30 and 31 to meet government officials to discuss Russia’s war against Ukraine and develop an economic framework for the Indo-Pacific, the White House said. “Singh will consult closely with counterparts on the…
After the success of three seasons, the dystopian drama Snowpiercer is returning with a fourth season. The American network TNT had confirmed the renewal way back on July 29, 2021, while season three was still in production. And now that the third season has concluded after garnering a huge viewership, TNT has…
RUSSIA’S foreign minister Sergei Lavrov will visit India for a two-day visit beginning on Thursday (31), officials said. He is likely to press New Delhi to resist Western pressure to condemn the Ukraine invasion. India has abstained from UN resolutions censuring Russia and continues to buy Russian oil and other…
WARMER than usual summer nights appear to result in an increase in cardiovascular deaths in men in their early 60s, suggests new research. According to the findings published in the online journal BMJ Open, a 1°C rise in summer night-time temperature may be linked to around four per cent higher…
THE department of health and social care (DHSC) told the Parliament that it plans to regulate ‘most harmful tobacco products’ used by half a million British south Asians, a statement said. The cancer-causing chewed tobacco products are facing a clampdown 16 years after scientists warned of their dangerous contents, it added. According…
AN Indian man has been charged with attempted murder after a female student from Kerala was stabbed inside a restaurant in east London. Sriram Ambarla, 23, was arrested from Hyderabad Wala biryani restaurant in East Ham for stabbing Sona Biju, who worked part-time as a waitress at the food outlet,…
