- Sunday, February 23, 2025
Britain’s Royal Mail on Friday unveiled a set of 15 special stamps to celebrate one of the world’s most successful female pop groups of all time, the Spice Girls. With more than 100 million global record sales across three decades and nine UK number-one singles, the girl band is considered…
NIKKI HALEY has risen in opinion polls in recent months, largely on the back of college-educated, affluent, suburban professionals, many of whom have tired of Donald Trump’s rhetoric and legal troubles. If the former South Carolina governor is to ascend any further and have a real shot at beating Trump…
INDIA’s Gautam Adani once again became Asia’s richest man on Friday (5), according to a Bloomberg index of the world’s billionaires, a year after allegations of market manipulation hammered his conglomerate’s stock prices. Adani Group saw more than $150 billion wiped from its market value after a bombshell report by…
LABOUR has raised concerns over the closure of Catamaran Ventures UK, a start-up investment firm owned by Rishi Sunak’s wife, reported the BBC. The company was wound up by Akshata Murty in December, prompting questions about its impact on government-backed businesses and other companies it holds stakes in. The establishment…
India expressed deep concern on Thursday (4) over reports indicating that certain members of the Indian community in the Canadian province of British Columbia received “extortion calls.” The comments by External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal came in response to a question at a media briefing. “It is a matter…
A senior Conservative MP, Neil O’Brien, has raised concerns about the sudden death of Sikh activist Avtar Singh Khanda in Birmingham last year. Writing to Home Secretary James Cleverly, O’Brien who is the MP for Harborough questioned the circumstances surrounding Khanda’s death, particularly as it coincided with reported plots to…
THE Indian team is likely to get clearance to travel to Pakistan for the Davis Cup tie against their neighbours in February, the country’s national federation said last Saturday (30). The All India Tennis Association (AITA) had written to the sports ministry, asking for permission to send the national team…
TURNING his star sports power to politics, Bangladeshi cricketer Shakib Al Hasan is all but guaranteed to become a ruling party lawmaker with general elections on Sunday (7) being boycotted by the opposition. Better known as the leading allrounder of his era, the 36-year-old skipper has been on a whirlwind…
Gujarat, the Indian state on the western coast of the country has recently decided to permit alcohol consumption within GIFT City to attract global financial institutions to the area. Announced by the government last year on December 22, the allowance applies to hotels, restaurants, and clubs offering a “Wine and…
A sentencing hearing started on Thursday (4) for the man found guilty of using his truck to murder four members of a Muslim family over two years ago in Canada. Nathanial Veltman, a 23-year-old self-proclaimed white supremacist, was found guilty of murder in November. He has denied the claims. On…
