- Monday, February 24, 2025
ENGLAND batsman Joe Root has pulled out of next year’s Indian Premier League, joining his red-ball skipper Ben Stokes in sitting out the glitzy Twenty20 tournament. Root, who had made his IPL debut for Rajasthan Royals earlier this year, opted out a day before the deadline for franchises to announce…
AN independent tribunal has struck off a former Newport GP and Labour councillor after finding him guilty of sexual misconduct. The tribunal, following a hearing concluded on Wednesday (22), ordered that Dr Ibrahim Hayat’s fitness to practice is currently impaired and imposed an immediate suspension, pending a 28-day appeal window.…
FOUR students were killed, and over 60 were injured in a stampede during Cochin University’s annual festival in Kochi on Saturday (25) night, police said. Officials said the stampede occurred before renowned singer Nikita Gandhi was to perform at a musical festival in the open-air auditorium of the university. Four…
INDIA’s military brought in specialised equipment on Sunday (26) as efforts to free 41 trapped workers entered a third week, with digging ongoing in three directions after repeated setbacks to the operation. The Indian air force said Sunday that they were “responding with alacrity”, as they flew in their third…
TENS of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched through central London on Saturday (25) to call for a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the latest in a series of weekend demonstrations in the capital since the seven-week war began. Saturday’s rally, which involved 45,000 campaigners according to police estimates, took…
ARORA GROUP, one of the UK’s largest private operators of hotels, has bought the Heythrop site in London from Zenprop. The 2.7-acre site, just off Kensington High Street, is currently consented for a 320,000 square foot, 142-apartment senior living scheme, React News reported. Arora Group, which controls more than 7,000 hotel rooms…
Senior Conservatives have raised concerns that Rishi Sunak’s stance against human rights laws, potentially enabling the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda, might jeopardise the Northern Ireland peace process. These MPs echoed worries expressed by the White House, underscoring that Downing Street’s reported intentions to disregard parts of the Human…
A grand Annakut Festival took place at Harisumiran Temple in Harrow on Saturday (18). Organised under the guidance of Pujya Guruprasad Swami and Pujya Harichintan Swami, the event featured an array of over 800 food offerings, before nine eminent Thakorjis, a press release from the Yogi Divine Society said. A…
Covid-19 may have adversely affected the bone tissues of young patients, impacting bone mineral density in the forearm and total bone mineral content, new research suggests. Assessing people during the pandemic and before, researchers at Comenius University, Slovakia, found that the disease caused a significant bone mineral density decrease in…
Manoj Bajpayee says he is happy that his two films, Gulmohar and Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai, have been embraced by the audiences and he hopes to end the year on a high note with Joram, a story that deals with issues of displacement and environmental crisis. Bajpayee started 2023 with Disney+ Hotstar’s Gulmohar, a family…
