- Monday, March 31, 2025
A LIFELONG campaigner for equality and civil rights Dr Halima Begum has been appointed as the new director of the Runnymede Trust, effective August 31, 2020. Raised in the London borough of Tower Hamlets, she joined Runnymede in 1998 as a researcher on the commission on the future of multi-ethnic…
THE UK government on Friday (28) urged people to return to work amid concern about the impact of the coronavirus lockdown on the economy and struggling high-street businesses. “Our central message is pretty straightforward: we are saying to people it is now safe to return to work,” said Transport Secretary…
VISAS granted to Indian nationals to study at UK universities have more than doubled over the past year, according to official statistics released here on Thursday (27). The Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that Indian nationals accounted for 17 per cent of the total 299,023 sponsored study visas granted…
Virgin Atlantic will in December start services between Britain and Pakistan, where local airlines face a ban on flying to most European destinations due to a scandal over unqualified pilots. Virgin, 51 per cent owned by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and 49 per cent by US airline Delta (DAL.N), said…
ONE of Bangladesh’s largest drugmakers, Beximco Pharmaceuticals, announced on Friday (28) that it will invest with the Serum Institute of India (SII) to ensure Bangladesh gets access to vaccines it is developing for the novel coronavirus. The deal comes after Bangladesh said this month it was ready to hold trials…
Sri Lanka will ban the import of most plastic products in a bid to protect wild elephants and deer that die eating the waste, the environment minister announced Friday (28). Plastic in Sri Lankan landfills is a major killer of elephants, with autopsies showing kilos of it in the stomachs…
Delhi police are guilty of “grave human rights violations” during communal riots in the Indian capital earlier this year, and were even “active participants” in the violence, Amnesty International alleged on Friday (28). The worst unrest in years between India’s majority Hindus and minority Muslims killed around 50 people, most…
INDIA reported a record daily jump of 77,266 coronavirus infections on Friday (28), taking its total to 3.39 million, as cases surged across the country, data from the health ministry showed. India has reported the highest single-day caseload in the world every day since Aug. 7. Currently, it is the…
INDIAN police are battling a booming black market in used face masks and surgical gloves scavenged in some cases from hospital refuse tips, as people scramble for cheap coronavirus protection. Police in the western city of Navi Mumbai said Friday (28) that they seized from one gang 3.8 million pieces…
AN INDIAN woman’s SOS email to Boris Johnson and his team’s quick response have helped India’s Delhi police prevent her from attempting suicide. “If help is not met in next two hours, would commit suicide,” the woman wrote in an email to the British prime minister on Wednesday night (26).…
