- Saturday, March 01, 2025
THE British Asian co-founder of Eggfree Cake Box is stepping down as the firm’s finance chief, The Times reported. Pardip Dass is leaving the firm weeks after admitting that Cake Box’s full-year accounts contained a number of ‘inconsistencies’ and ‘transcription errors’, the report added. He said that he was leaving at the end…
BRITISH ASIAN journalist Anushka Asthana is a frontrunner to be the BBC’s political editor role on all-female shortlist, media reports last week said. ITV’s Asthana and Sky News’s Sophy Ridge were said to be among finalists for the coveted position. Asthana, 41, has been ITV News’s deputy political editor for a year…
A classy 97 by Meg Lanning confirmed unbeaten Australia’s place in the Women’s World Cup semi-finals as a record run chase saw them to victory over India on Saturday (19). In a match that went down to the wire in Auckland, title favourites Australia reached 280-4 to overtake India’s 277-7…
NICK BEEVER proudly shows off the pristine spare bedroom at his home in the London suburbs, one of thousands of Britons ready to take part in a government programme to host Ukrainian refugees. “So this is currently our guest room actually, but we hope to have one, maybe two Ukrainian refugees staying…
THE chairman of the State Bank of India (SBI) has announced plans to use the imminent UK-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to expand its FinTech and green financing plans, as the bank celebrates the centenary of its operations in the UK. Dinesh Kumar Khara made the comments at the SBI-FICCI…
When Australian cricket fan Luke Gillian last visited Pakistan in 1998, home supporters threw stones at him when he ventured out in public. These days everyone wants a selfie. Gillian is back in Pakistan with a small contingent of Australian fans on their first tour of the country in nearly…
World Championships bronze medallist Lakshya Sen stunned world No. 3 Anders Antonsen of Denmark in straight games to progress to the men’s singles quarterfinals of the All England Championships in Birmingham on Thursday. The 20-year-old from Almora, who had claimed his maiden Super 500 title at India Open in January…
Pakistan captain Babar Azam has long established his credentials in limited-overs cricket, but his 196 against Australia put him up there with some greats in the long form of the game too. Azam fought valiantly for 10 hours and seven minutes in an innings lasting 425 deliveries to help Pakistan…
Pakistan named two surprise inclusions to their limited-overs squads on Thursday for the one-day international and T20 matches against Australia later this month. Little known spin-bowling allrounder Asif Afridi and wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Haris were brought in following impressive performances in the recently concluded Pakistan Super League. The 35-year-old Afridi took…
An all-women team of smartphone-toting, low-caste reporters who chronicle India’s hardscrabble heartland may give the cinema-mad country its first Oscar-winning film, after their own story became a critically lauded documentary. The journalists of Khabar Lahariya (Waves of News) have built a huge following across Uttar Pradesh, a northern state with…
