- Friday, February 28, 2025
The best thing about Adeel Akhtar, apart from his charisma, his ability to give life to ‘ordinary people’, his brilliant acting, must be that he thinks about your question, and then he answers it without spin or trying to sell his latest film. He is, by the way, promoting his…
FORMER world number one Andy Murray said he would donate his prize money won from tennis tournaments in 2022 towards aid efforts for children affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Two million people – mostly women and children – have now fled Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion on…
THE founders of Caretech are planning to make an offer to delist the social care group from the London Stock Exchange, reported Sky News. Farouq and Haroon Sheikh are in talks to secure the financing required to launch a takeover bid for the company, the report added. Started in 1993, Caretech provides social care…
INDIA is the second-largest global venture capital investment hub for digital shopping companies, according to an official analysis released in London on Wednesday (9). Such investments in the south Asian country grew by a whopping 175 per cent from $8 billion (£6.08 bn) in 2020 to $22 bn (£16.71 bn)…
A former investment banker’s organisation wants to change the low numbers of female business leaders in FTSE-100 firms. Tara Cemlyn-Jones’ organisation 25×25 has set itself an ambitious target: to get 25 women at the head of the 100 biggest businesses in the UK by 2025. Currently, there are just nine female chief executives on…
SRI LANKA on Wednesday tightened restrictions on a wide range of imports from whisky to kitchen appliances as a foreign exchange shortage pushed the economy to the brink of collapse. An import ban was already introduced in March 2020 on big-ticket items such as cars in an effort by the…
A NUMBER of remarkable women were amongst the winners at the annual GG2 Leadership and Diversity Awards, held at the Park Plaza hotel on Tuesday (8). Binna Mehta took home the coveted GG2 Hammer Award, presented to a BAME person who has smashed the proverbial glass ceiling, for her rise…
PAKISTAN’S opposition parties have submitted a no-confidence motion against prime minister Imran Khan, holding his government responsible for the spiralling inflation. The motion, signed by about 100 lawmakers from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), was submitted to the National Assembly Secretariat on Tuesday (8). “We…
A DAESH suicide bomber who killed 64 people at a Shiite mosque in northwest Pakistan last week was an Afghan exile who returned home to train for the attack, police said Wednesday (9). There have been warnings Afghanistan could become a recruiting ground and staging post for militants since the…
WOMEN are very much on the move – rising to roles not previously seen before and smashing glass ceilings in the process. The GG2 Power List was unveiled on Tuesday (8) evening at Eastern Eye publisher AMG’s high-profile and glittering GG2 Leadership & Diversity Awards, where the role of highflying women of all…
