- Wednesday, February 26, 2025
A PIONEERING Asian doctor who served in the NHS for nearly four decades and was a respected community leader passed away last week at the age of 96. Dr Shivkumar Oza MBBS, FRCS (Lon), was the general secretary of the Overseas Doctors Association in Nottingham and was known for supporting…
THERE have been various film adaptations of Keigo Higashino’s Japanese novel The Devotion of Suspect X in different languages. This Bollywood version recently had its world premiere on Netflix. When a murder takes place in a small, picturesque hill town, a single mother and her daughter rely on a reclusive genius teacher…
GOVERNMENT is set to increase visa fees and immigration health surcharges for migrants in a move aimed at generating additional revenue. However, a minister has expressed concerns that these increases may not effectively reduce record-high levels of immigration, reported The Times. From October 4, the cost of most visa and British…
INDIAN activist Partha Chaudhury is on a war footing as he strides out of the ruling BJP’s regional headquarters in Kolkata armed with passion and pages of voter lists. “We need to meet each and every BJP supporter, and all of this has to be done in less than 300…
A federal jury in Michigan has convicted an Indian national for orchestrating a USD 2.8 million healthcare fraud scheme which equals £2.3 million and engaging in money laundering. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Yogesh Pancholi, 43, owned and operated Shring Home Care Inc., a home health company…
NEW ZEALAND gave themselves the perfect preparation ahead of the World Cup by whitewashing Bangladesh in the three-match series 2-0, with a seven-wicket win in the final ODI in Dhaka on Tuesday (26). Will Young and Adam Milne starred with bat and ball respectively, with Young hitting 70 off 80…
A BANGLADESH player has apologised for social media posts condemning working women but denied he was a misogynist because “his mother is a woman”, the country’s cricket board said on Tuesday (26). Tanzim Hasan Sakib took the wicket of India captain Rohit Sharma with only his fourth international delivery when…
BABIL KHAN has followed in the giant footsteps of his late great actor father Irrfan Khan. The 26-year-old made a winning acting debut with the critically acclaimed film Qala (2022), which garnered immense love and appreciation for his performance. Those who saw the film agreed that Babil had inherited his…
EVERYBODY knows it. There are simply not enough houses to go round. Population growth over the past few decades and glacial rates of building mean demand far outstrips supply. Rising interest rates have compounded this and mean affordability for many, and especially young people, is at an all-time low, and…
AMIR KHAN, the TV doctor, admits that he delved into parts of his own life in writing his first novel, How (Not) To Have An Arranged Marriage. Khan is a familiar figure to audiences, with regular appearances on Lorraine, This Morning and Good Morning Britain. He has also been in documentaries such…
