- Saturday, February 22, 2025
AS A teenager, Air Trooper Munib Sheikh dreamed of becoming a professional footballer. Growing up in Pakistan, Sheikh idolised Portugal footballer Cristiano Ronaldo for his work ethic and rise to the top of his field. The self-proclaimed “football crazy” teen was inspired to pursue his own dream of sports stardom.…
An Indian Air Force's (IAF) C-17 Globemaster transport plane take off from a forward airbase in Leh, in the Ladakh region, September 15, 2020. (REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui) FROM deploying mules to large transport aircraft, India‘s military has activated its entire logistics network to transport supplies to thousands of troops for a harsh…
A SET of three idols of Lord Ram, Sita and Lakshman, stolen from a temple in Tamil Nadu decades ago, were returned to the Indian government on Tuesday (15), after a collector voluntarily offered to hand them back on discovering their true history. The theft dated back to 1978, and…
Lionel Messi (centre) with Neymar Jr (left) and Christiano Ronaldo. (Photo: Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images) LIONEL MESSI remains the world’s richest football player, despite the Argentine maestro being denied a potentially money-spinning move away from Barcelona this month after a contract-dispute. According to a list compiled by Forbes, Messi‘s total earnings this year are…
"He [MS Dhoni] is very fit and I believe he is working very hard on it. Plus he has stopped playing international cricket so there will be less burden on his body," Saba Karim, another former India wicketkeeper. (Photo: INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP via Getty Images) MS DHONI may have signed off from international…
FILE PHOTO: Queues form at New Look at the Rushden Lakes shopping complex on June 15, 2020 in Rushden, United Kingdom. (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images) UK fashion retail chain New Look received green light from landlords on Tuesday (15) for its company voluntary arrangement (CVA). Through CVA, the company…
FILE PHOTO: Britain's Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall talks to British journalist and BBC news presenter, George Alagiah (R) who was born in Sri Lanka, during a reception in Clarence House, central London on October 24, 2013. (LEON NEAL/AFP via Getty Images) NEWS PRESENTER George Alagiah, who fronts the BBC’s News…
Dr Remi Joseph-Salisbury, who co-authored the report, said the Black Lives Matter movement “underlined the need for more action to tackle racism in society, and education is an important site for change”. (Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) NEARLY half of black, Asian and minority ethnic sociology staff (46 per cent) at…
FILE PHOTO: A doctor checks on patient notes as the first patients are admitted to the NHS Seacole Centre at Headley Court, Surrey on May 28, 2020, a disused military hospital, which has been converted during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.(Photo by VICTORIA JONES/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) NHS England has…
FILE PHOTO: Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan. (AAMIR QURESHI/AFP via Getty Images) PAKISTAN’s prime minister Imran Khan has said that he would like convicted rapists to be publicly executed or chemically castrated, reacting to a question on the rape of a woman on a highway last week that has caused…
