- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
During the Covid inquiry, Priti Patel, the former home secretary said that the £10,000 fines for violating Covid laws on large gatherings were excessively high. She said that the penalty, introduced before the August bank holiday in 2020, was not proportionate. Patel, along with her officials at the Home Office,…
CORRUPT Asian elites are exploiting Britain’s property market and the City of London to launder the proceeds of drugs smuggling, a new report warned. The report published on Friday (10) by the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) underscored the UK’s failure to prosecute money laundering crimes and emphasised its involvement in…
Dana Conway, 25, has been eliminated from The Great British Bake Off 2023. She became the sixth baker to leave the tent, as announced by presenters Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond. Dana, a database administrator from Essex, said, “I knew it was me that was going to go home, I could…
WHEN he first went to prison, Shahjahan Bhuiyan was accused of killing only one man. By the time he was released decades later, he had put dozens more to death as Bangladesh’s most prolific hangman ever. Each execution was rewarded with a special meal including beef, chicken and scented pilau…
HAILING from India originally, Joshua Bethania has been making a big impact on the UK stand-up comedy scene in the past few years with winning performances, great acclaim and recognition for his talent. The young London-based funny man is joining an impressive line-up of comedians on The Indians Are Coming UK tour…
Tamil superstar Dhanush is set to portray legendary music composer Ilaiyaraaja in an upcoming biographical drama, which will be the first film to come out from a cinematic partnership between Connekkt Media and Mercuri Movies. The partnership between the two production houses, which was announced on Friday, will span multiple mega-budget films,…
Humza Yousaf issued an “unreserved” apology on Thursday (9) for deficiencies in the release of government WhatsApp messages, addressing new accusations of secrecy regarding legal advice and private emails during the Covid crisis. The first minister faced challenges about the accuracy of statements made last week by him and Deputy…
The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, recognised as Vaxzevria in Europe and licensed as Covishield in India, is confronting a legal challenge in the High Court in London, a media report said on Thursday (9). According to ‘The Daily Telegraph’, UK-based pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca could face a number of further claims based…
BANGLADESH’S prime minister Sheikh Hasina has rejected any further pay hikes for protesting garment workers demanding a nearly tripled wage increase, after violent clashes with police and factories were ransacked. Bangladesh’s 3,500 garment factories account for around 85 per cent of its $55 billion in annual exports, supplying many of…
INDIA and the US announced progress on key defence deals and said they would expand their growing partnership in the face of geopolitical challenges as their top diplomats and senior ministers met on Friday (10). US secretary of state Antony Blinken and defense secretary Lloyd Austin met Indian foreign minister…
