- Saturday, February 22, 2025
China is pushing growing numbers of Tibetan rural labourers off the land and into recently built military-style training centers where they are turned into factory workers, mirroring a programme in the western Xinjiang region that rights groups have branded coercive labour. Beijing has set quotas for the mass transfer of…
Udit Singhal By Pramod Thomas INDIAN student has won the highest profile recognition for young leaders by the UN for efforts to combat the world’s most pressing issues. Udit Singhal, 18, student at University College, London, has been named to the 2020 class of 17 young leaders for the sustainable…
Statue of Lady Justice at the Old Bailey London By S Neeraj Krishna THE UK has launched an “action plan” to increase diversity in the legal system and ensure it “truly reflects” all sections of society. The Judicial Diversity Forum (JDF), led by legal luminaries, has chalked out a raft…
FILE PHOTO: Paytm chief executive Vijay Shekhar Sharma.(Photo: SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images). GOOGLE removed one of India’s biggest digital payment apps from its online store for breaching gambling rules on Friday(18), just a day before the start of the Indian Premier League(IPL). Digital payments platform Paytm had recently launched…
Rearview shot of a surgeon standing in an operating room By S Neeraj Krishna A 54-year-old man in Birmingham has been charged with assaulting children while performing circumcisions. Mohammad Siddiqui of Hockley faced 34 charges, including ill-treatment, neglect, causing unnecessary suffering or injury, and actual bodily harm. The former NHS…
Professor Mahendra Patel SENIOR academic pharmacist Professor Mahendra Patel has advocated greater involvement of community pharmacies in recruiting volunteers from ‘underrepresented’ minority communities for a ground-breaking Covid-19 treatment trial. Putting pharmacy on the platform at the University of Oxford, Prof Patel has joined the PRINCIPLE trial on treatments for Covid-19…
US president Donald Trump (R) and India's prime minister Narendra Modi wave at the crowd during 'Namaste Trump' rally at Sardar Patel Stadium in Motera, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, on February 24, 2020. (Photo by Money SHARMA / AFP) US president Donald Trump greeted prime minister Narendra Modi on…
Representational image (iStock) By Pramod Thomas RECENT figures published by various charities suggest that the so-called ‘revenge porn’ is on the rise in the UK during the lockdown. Campaigners against this ‘humiliation’ said that around 2,050 reports were made to a government-funded helpline during lockdown, up by 22 per cent…
There is no country-specific limit on the 85,000 H-1B work visas the United States issues every year, and an estimated 70 per cent of them go to Indians.(Photo: MANPREET ROMANA/AFP/Getty Images) AN appeal by 169 Indian citizens against president Trump’s temporary H-1B visa ban has faced a set back in…
Labour MP Nadia Whittome says she felt “compelled to speak out against the culture of gagging and management bullying generally in the [care] sector”. By S Neeraj Krishna A CARE HOME that “sacked” Labour MP Nadia Whittome over her “media appearances and speaking out about a lack of PPE” has…
