- Friday, February 21, 2025
THE Conservative government was on Sunday (30) level with the Labour party in the polls for the first time in over a year amid a series of embarrassing U-turns and economic devastation wrought by the pandemic. Prime Minister Boris Johnson can expect little respite when Parliament returns on Tuesday, with…
A FRENCH woman has been arrested for making a video of herself naked on a holy bridge in the sacred north Indian city of Rishikesh, police said on Saturday (29). The 27-year-old now faces charges under India’s internet law with a maximum sentence of three years jail if found guilty. She was…
Chennai Super Kings on Saturday (29) lost key batsman Suresh Raina for the Indian Premier League tournament because of “personal reasons”, a day after it became the first team to report players with coronavirus. Two players are now down with the virus and in extended quarantine, according to media reports…
DETECTIVES have launched an “intense investigation” into the abduction of three children from a foster home in south London, and have issued an urgent public appeal for information. Bilal Safi, Mohammed Ebrar Safi, and Mohammed Yaseen Safi – aged six, five and three were taken forcibly away allegedly by their…
ALMOST 70 per cent of head teachers do not have confidence in the UK government’s test, trace and isolate system ahead of the return of millions of school children next week, a new survey of over 4,000 school leaders has shown. England’s nearly 25,000 schools are set to return full-time…
INDIA reported 76,472 new coronavirus cases on Saturday (29), slightly lower than the record-breaking numbers of the past couple of days, but extending a run that has made the country’s outbreak currently the world’s worst. India has reported a total of 3.46 million cases during the pandemic, a tally that…
PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi is changing Indian Kashmir’s residency laws for the first time since 1947, in a bid to snuff out any challenge to the disputed territory belonging to India. Drawing comparisons with Israel’s “settler” tactics in the Palestinian Territories, Modi’s nationalist government aims to change the demographic makeup…
THE US plans high-level talks with “Quad” security partners from India, Australia and Japan in September and October, president Donald Trump’s national security adviser said, while criticising “very aggressive” behavior by China. Robert O’Brien told the Atlantic Council think tank he would likely meet his opposite numbers from those countries…
A court in Pakistan has sentenced to prison three leaders of Jamat-ud-Dawa, an organisation accused by India and the US of masterminding the 2008 attacks in Mumbai. The sentencing comes ahead of a September deadline for Pakistan to avoid being blacklisted for failing to curb terror financing by global financial…
Eoin Morgan believes England must field their strongest Twenty20 side as often as possible if they are to triumph at next year’s T20 World Cup and replicate their 50-over global triumph. The coronavirus pandemic has led England to name separate red-ball and white-ball squads this season, with the likes of…
