• Monday, February 24, 2025

Annie Baker’s new play uses dark humour to discuss pain

IN INFINITE LIFE, a new play by Annie Baker, five American women find themselves reclining next to each other on chaise lounges at a fasting clinic two hours north of San Francisco. What they have in common is pain. But how do you describe pain? Patients will often try hard…

Sadiq Khan condemns attack on Ulez camera, calls it ‘grotesquely…

The London mayor’s office strongly condemned a “grotesquely irresponsible” attack on a camera responsible for enforcing the city’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez). The incident involved damaging the camera with what seemed to be a homemade bomb, posing a risk to lives, The Guardian reported. No immediate response regarding the incident…

Gangster jailed for smuggling drugs

A 34-year-old man, who was part of a four-member drugs smuggling gang, was sentenced to three years of imprisonment at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Friday (8). The gang was busted and convicted for their role in conspiring to supply cocaine and cannabis from the Netherlands to the UK and Ireland.…

How to combat your winter hair trouble

COLD temperatures can have a detrimental effect on all hair types. This includes going from contrasting conditions in heated indoor spaces to wintery weather outside. To prevent split ends, breakage, dry scalp, and other issues caused by colder environmental changes, it is important to adjust your haircare routine. With that…

Eating within 10-hour window is good for health: study

Recent findings from the largest UK community research project suggest that eating within a 10-hour window enhances mood, and energy levels, and diminishes hunger. The outcomes of this trial were presented at the European Nutrition Conference by a team of researchers from King’s College London. Intermittent fasting (IF), or restricting…

Stockport MP Navendu Mishra honours anniversary of Bhopal disaster

Navendu Mishra Stockport MP recently hosted an event at Portcullis House in the House of Commons, to mark the 39th anniversary of the tragic Bhopal disaster in the state of Madya Pradesh, India. The catastrophe, stemming from a gas leak on December 2, 1984, at the Union Carbide Gas Plant…

Essex cricketers faced racist abuse: report

SEVERAL cricketers who played for English county side Essex were subject to racist abuse and discriminatory treatment, according to an independent report released on Friday (8). References to players’ ethnic, racial and religious origins were “entirely normalised and tolerated behaviour” within the dressing-room culture between the mid-1990s and around 2013,…

Maoist cult leader Comrade Bala’s daughter says she has forgiven…

Katy Morgan-Davies, the daughter of a Maoist cult leader who held her captive and kept her as a slave for 30 years, revealed on Thursday (7), that she has forgiven her father despite enduring psychological and physical mistreatment. Morgan-Davies spent years effectively imprisoned in the peculiar cult’s residence in Herne…

Disney star Karan Brar comes out as bisexual

Former Disney star Karan Brar has publicly come out as bisexual in an emotional essay penned in Teen Vogue. Titled “How I Found Myself,” Brar recounted in the essay his experience as an Indian-American child actor. Brar’s first starring role was as Indian middle schooler Chirag Gupta in Diary of…

‘KGF’ star Yash announces his next

After the massive success of KGF: Chapter 1 and KGF: Chapter 2 actor Yash is set to return to the big screen. On Friday, Yash announced the title of his next film with a special teaser video. Taking to X, Yash shared a post which he captioned, “‘What you seek…