- Friday, February 21, 2025
Bharti Enterprises founder and chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal on Wednesday became the first Indian citizen to be conferred an honorary Knighthood by Britain’s King Charles III “for services to UK and India business relations”. In a list of honorary British awards unveiled by the UK Cabinet Office, Mittal receives a…
QUOTES for car insurance were found to be higher in areas in England with large ethnic minority populations, according to an investigation by the BBC. The details of drivers were used to get thousands of quotes in different locations. However, when the driver’s address corresponded with an address with a…
South Korea is grappling with the world’s lowest birth rate, a crisis that shows no signs of abating as new data reveals a further 8 per cent decline in 2023 to an alarming 0.72, well below the 2.1 needed for population stability. This relentless decline, now spanning over a decade,…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Wednesday (28) visited a slum in Bhubaneswar in Odisha state and interacted with the residents. He visited the Biju Adarsh Colony in the Maa Mangla Basti along with state government officials. Gates also interacted with members of women’s self-help groups that work for the upliftment…
HARMEET grew up in a vibrant multicultural corner of east London, with her parents, sister and grandparents. And from an early age, she was always encouraged to use her voice to help others. “This ranged from translating information from English to Punjabi for older relatives and supporting my mother to…
Tuition fees have been waived at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City following a historic $1 billion donation made on Monday (26). The donor, Ruth Gottesman, the wife of a prominent Wall Street investor, was a professor at the college. Her announcement was met with emotional reactions…
AGE has become an important factor in the 2024 general elections in the US, an eminent Indian-American Democrat has said, signalling that youths and minorities who were a strong pillar of support for president Joe Biden in 2020, seem to lack enthusiasm and energy about the ruling party in the…
Sri Lanka has told Russians and Ukrainians staying in the country to leave in two weeks, according to media reports. The immigration controller of the island nation has issued a notice to the tourism ministry asking Russian and Ukrainian people staying on extended tourist visas to leave Sri Lanka within…
Superstar Salman Khan on Wednesday said he has joined hands with fine art company Artfi to make his paintings accessible to fans. According to a press release, for the first time Salman’s paintings, including the renowned diptych titled “Unity 1” and “Unity 2”, will be available to everyone through fractional…
CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt should not announce further pre-election tax cuts in his budget next week unless he can explain the painful spending cuts needed to pay for them, a leading economic thinktank said on Tuesday (27). Hunt and prime minister, Rishi Sunak, have said they want to lower Britain’s tax…
