• Saturday, February 22, 2025

Amy Jackson gets engaged to Ed Westwick

Actress Amy Jackson is now engaged. On Monday, she took to social media and shared the good news with her fans and followers. She dropped a couple of romantic pictures with her beau Ed Westwick. In the images, Ed Westwick can be seen proposing to Amy in Switzerland on a bridge.…

Filmfare Awards: Ranbir, Alia win top honours; see full winners…

Actors Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt walked away with top acting honours at the 69th Filmfare Awards for their roles in Animal and Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani while Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s 12th Fail won the Black Lady for Best Film and Director. The 69th Hyundai Filmfare Awards 2024…

New poll says 3 in 5 south Asians concerned about…

A new NHS England survey has revealed that a significant number of south Asians, 64% to be precise, are experiencing mental health concerns. Among those surveyed, 42% reported experiencing depression, while 29% faced generalised anxiety disorder. The silver lining, however, is that 65% of those who sought professional help for…

MP calls for government support for south Asian language teaching

Gareth Thomas MP has urged the government to allocate resources for the development and teaching of south Asian languages, including Gujarati, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, and Hindi. Thomas pointed out that the lack of widespread understanding of south Asian languages within the UK hampers the full potential of cultural and…

India-England: A test of sporting brilliance, not identity

NOBODY expected this first India versus England Test match to turn into an all-time cricket classic. Having not set a 4am alarm on the first day, I woke to hear India already taking their sixth English wicket. That first batting collapse came just after lunch in Hyderabad, but well before…

NHS trust review sought after schizophrenic man’s attack on British-Indian…

A special review has been ordered to examine the NHS trust that was treating a 32-year-old man diagnosed with schizophrenia and mental illness, who tragically stabbed three individuals to death, including a British-Indian teenager, in Nottingham last year. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said a rapid review of Nottinghamshire Healthcare…

Sting closes Lollapalooza India with energetic performance

Music legend Sting wowed audience members across ages and genders with his electrifying performance at the finale of the two-day Lollapalooza India festival on Sunday in Mumbai. Held at the open area of the Mahalaxmi Racecourse in the heart of South Mumbai, the show was a treat for music aficionados,…

Atri Banerjee: ‘Theatre is the medium for exploring moral ambiguity’

THEATRE director Atri Banerjee said he “embraced” the challenge of helming back-to-back plays: Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie and Phoebe EclairPowell’s Shed: Exploded View. Banerjee is currently working on Shed: Exploded View which runs at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester from February to March, following which he will revisit The Glass Menagerie at the Rose Theatre in…

Netflix sets date for documentary on Sheena Bora case

Netflix is set to release its documentary The Indrani Mukerjea Story: Buried Truth on February 23. The documentary, for which the streamer has collaborated with MakeMake and India Today Group, promises to peel back the layers of the sensational murder of Sheena Bora and the subsequent arrest of Bora’s sister and media executive…

Sunak announces ban on disposable vapes

The government is set to implement new legislation to prohibit single-use e-cigarettes or vapes as a measure to address the increasing trend of vaping among young people, prime minister Rishi Sunak announced on Monday (29). “As any parent or teacher knows, one of the most worrying trends at the moment…