- Friday, April 04, 2025
A LEADING diversity expert has warned that exclusion of minorities within the workplace can have an impact on their self-confidence and creativity, as his new book explores the relationship between race and wellbeing in the workplace. Free to Soar: Race & Wellbeing in Organisations explores the connection between minorities’ exclusion in…
LONDON MAYOR Sadiq Khan declared City Hall a committedly anti-racist organisation on Tuesday(13), and urged employers and businesses to do more to embed anti-racist practices in their operations and culture. He also unveiled a toolkit which offers practical guidance to businesses to help diversify their workforce and foster a truly…
Bangladesh must do more to tackle child marriage if it is to meet its own goal of eliminating the crime by 2041, according to a United Nations report released on Wednesday (7). “This human rights violation…(is)robbing children of their childhoods,” said Veera Mendonca, a spokeswoman for the UN’s children agency.…
An Indian man who worshipped US president Donald Trump died of a cardiac arrest, official from his village and police said. Bussa Krishna, who was upset by the news of the US president contracting Covid-19 died on Sunday(11), reported Reuters. Krishna had said his devotion for Trump began more than four…
Millions of Indian public servants will be offered loans of around £104 ($135) –- to be repaid over 10 months — in a bid to boost spending and salvage the coronavirus-ravaged economy, the government said Monday. The offer comes days after the World Bank said the economy would contract by…
Indian authorities released a top Kashmiri politician late on Tuesday, the last major leader held since August last year when the federal government withdrew the troubled region’s autonomy and arrested politicians. Mehbooba Mufti, a former chief minister of the state, was released late on Tuesday, government spokesperson Rohit Kansal said…
LAWMAKERS will vote on the new three-tiered system of further restrictions on parts of England to curb an increase in Covid-19 cases on Tuesday(13). British prime minister Boris Johnson on Monday(12) announced a new three-tiered system in an attempt to standardise a patchwork of often complicated and confusing restrictions imposed…
Virat Kohli (Photo: Alex Davidson/Getty Images). Skipper Virat Kohli hit an unbeaten 90 as Royal Challengers Bangalore outplayed Chennai Super Kings by 37 runs in the Indian Premier League on Saturday. Kohli held the innings strong despite early losses including AB de Villiers for nought and a slow start to…
THOUGH young white Britons are outearned by their black Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) workers, Indian and Chinese workers in the UK outearn their white British counterparts by almost £10,000 a year, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed. The ONS found that between 2012 and 2019,…
INDIAN luxury silk firm has opened its first UK store in Wembley by investing around £300,000 with support from the UK’s department for international trade (DIT). Chennai-based Nalli Silks, which previously gifted sarees to King George V and Queen Elizabeth, is likely to open more stores in London and Birmingham,…
