• Saturday, February 22, 2025

One in five UK adults not looking for work, finds…

While political parties are promising to boost the UK’s economic growth, the high level of the economic inactivity rate in the country remains a cause for concern, BBC reports. The number of people not employed or actively looking for work has remained high in recent years, ever since it first…

‘Spooky, but helpful’, says woman who ‘spoke’ with her dead…

It may sound weird as you read further but a woman from Berlin, Germany has been talking to her deceased mother through the help of Artificial Intelligence. Sirine Malas experienced the profound loss of her mother to kidney failure in 2018. She was separated from her mother in 2015 when…

Nottingham stabbings: Victims’ families seek answers on killer’s escape

FAMILIES of victims in Nottingham attacks want to know how the killer, Valdo Calocane, slipped through the net to kill three people last year. Students Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley Kumar, both 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, were stabbed to death on 13 June last year. Now the families…

State Bank of India submits electoral bond details to top…

THE State Bank of India (SBI) told the Supreme Court on Wednesday (13) that 22,217 electoral bonds were purchased and 22,030 redeemed by political parties between April 1, 2019 and February 15 this year. In a compliance affidavit filed in the apex court, the SBI said as per the court’s…

Yuva Rajkumar opens up about his first film ‘Yuva’

The Kannada film industry, known for its rich cinematic heritage, has seen the emergence of numerous talented actors over the years. Among these, the arrival of Yuva Rajkumar, the latest scion of the illustrious Rajkumar family, marks a significant milestone. With the weight of a legendary cinematic legacy on his…

After Sunak’s caution, UK unveils new definition of extremism

The UK government on Thursday (14) unveiled a new definition of extremism, as church leaders warned it risked disproportionately affecting Muslim communities. The new definition comes after prime minister Rishi Sunak warned earlier this month of a “shocking increase in extremist disruption and criminality” that risked the country tipping into…

How India’s Ashwin spun his way to 500 Test scalps

SUNIL SUBRAMANIAM could never put his finger on why he failed to break into the Indian team despite being one of the country’s best leftarm spinners in the early 1990s. It bothered him, but the pain pales in comparison to the joy his most illustrious ward, Ravichandran Ashwin, brought to…

US family fights digital deception after public deepfake nude controversy

IN a bold stance against the proliferation of deepfake nude imagery online, a mother and daughter duo in the United States have stepped into the forefront of a battle against digital deception. Their resolve stems from the distressing discovery that the daughter’s fabricated images, along with those of other girls…

New bill threatens TikTok ban unless China sells US arm

THE US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on Wednesday (13) that would give TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the US assets of the short-video app, or face a ban, in the greatest threat to the app since the Trump administration. The bill passed 352-65…

‘Polio Paul’ who lived in an iron lung, dies at…

Paul Alexander, a man whose life was inextricably linked to an iron lung due to polio, passed away at the age of 78. Diagnosed with the disease at just six years old in 1952, Alexander became paralysed from the neck down and reliant on the machine for breathing. Despite this…