- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
INDIAN-ORIGIN academics from the University of Oxford and a south Asian historian from King’s College London are among 30 winners of the UK’s £3-million 2023 Leverhulme Trust award, which recognises exceptional research across different fields. Professor Amia Srinivasan from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford has been…
A NEW, multi-million-pound crematorium has opened in Bradford, writes Chris Young. Shay Grange in Heaton replaces Nab Wood Crematorium as Bradford Council’s main crematorium in the north of the district. Based off Long Lane, the crematorium has cost almost £9 million and is part of a wider programme to upgrade the…
DO not expect any more parties in Downing Street this week to mark the anniversary of Rishi Sunak becoming prime minister. It was an understated moment of British social history, as Britain’s first Asian prime minister walked into Number 10 alone, with a few words about fixing mistakes to get…
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) is looking for a strong budget and narrower deficit from Sri Lanka as it seeks funding to bridge the gap between government revenue and expenditure, the IMF mission chief for the country said last Friday (20). Sri Lanka plunged into its worst financial crisis in…
CHINA increased the deployment of forces and continued infrastructure build-up along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in 2022 amid border tensions with India, a Pentagon report has said. For more than three years, Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in confrontation in certain points along eastern Ladakh; both…
ANAS SARWAR said the Scotland Office in London would promote Scottish interests more effectively if a Labour government is formed after the next general election in the UK. The Scottish Labour leader said the office responsible for Scottish affairs would be “draped in a Saltire” in the event of Labour…
US president Joe Biden bestowed the country’s highest scientific awards upon two Indian-American scientists, Ashok Gadgil and Subra Suresh, in recognition of their significant contributions to the field of science and technology. Gadgil, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, was honoured with the prestigious…
AN International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission will visit Pakistan on November 2 to discuss the first review of the country’s current $3 billion standby arrangement (SBA), the lender’s resident representative said on Tuesday (24). The south Asian nation is trying to navigate a tricky path to economic recovery under the…
NEARLY 275,000 people in Bangladesh fled to shelters on Wednesday (25) as Cyclone Hamoon barrelled into the southeastern coast, killing at least two people, officials said. Hamoon is the latest major storm to batter Bangladesh’s coast, with the low-lying south Asian nation witnessing an increasing number of severe weather events…
INDIA has said it will treat a reference by Pakistan to Kashmir during a security council meeting on the Israel-Gaza situation with the contempt it deserves and will not dignify it with a response. The remarks by India’s deputy permanent representative at the UN, Ambassador R Ravindra, came on Tuesday…
