- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Several prominent Hollywood actors and artists on Friday wrote to US President Joe Biden, urging him to press for a ceasefire in Israel and Gaza. Amongst the signatories were Joaquin Phoenix, Cate Blanchett, Mark Ruffalo, Jon Stewart, Kristen Stewart, Susan Sarandon, Mahershala Ali, Riz Ahmed, Hasan Minhaj, Ramy Youssef, and…
Police forces need to ensure that the implementation of facial recognition technology leads to arrests and convictions of shoplifters, the head of independent retailers has told Eastern Eye. The Metropolitan Police last Thursday (19) announced that it will use facial recognition technology to tackle London’s worst shoplifters by matching CCTV stills…
Indian cricketing hero and spin great Bishan Singh Bedi has died aged 77, sports minister Anurag Thakur said Monday, calling it a “huge loss” to the sport. “Former captain of the Indian cricket team, a bowler who was always remembered by the nation, Bishan Singh Bedi, is no more,” Thakur,…
FORMER Barclays UK CEO Ashok Vaswani is set to take over the reins of India’s Kotak Mahindra Bank. The Indian banking regulator has cleared his appointment as the next managing director and chief executive of the country’s fourth largest bank by market capitalisation. Vaswani will succeed Uday Kotak who resigned…
The Bombay High Court has ruled against a petition that aimed to ban Pakistani artists from working or performing in India and observed that in order to be a patriot, one does not need to be inimical to those from abroad, especially from the neighbouring country. The plea was filed…
After the departure of Jody Cundy and Jowita Przystal last week, the fourth celebrity to exit Strictly Come Dancing 2023 has been revealed. After the votes of the four judges – Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Anton Du Beke, and Shirley Ballas – were combined with the audience votes, comedian Eddie Kadi…
A PAKISTANI court indicted former prime minister Imran Khan and his deputy in an Official Secrets Acts case on Monday (23), his party said, in another blow for the jailed former cricket star ahead of a general election expected in January. The charge is related to a classified cable sent…
INDIA on Sunday (22) said its relationship with Canada is passing through a difficult phase and there had been “continued interference” by Canadian personnel in New Delhi’s internal affairs. The Indian government is angry that Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau last month suggested Indian agents might have been involved in…
The earliest memory that UK musician Tanya Wells has is as a five-year-old in the foothills of the Himalayas where she and her sisters would start the day with meditation at a school, with Hindustani classical music at the heart of its Sahaja Yoga meditation practice. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,…
A first anniversary in office is normally a moment for a leader to celebrate, but Rishi Sunak hits the milestone this week with a mountain to climb to retain power in a general election expected next year. Two by-election losses to the main opposition Labour on Thursday (19) underscored how…
