- Friday, February 28, 2025
A Scottish lawmaker has been stripped of her seat in Britain’s parliament for breaking Covid rules, triggering a by-election that will indicate whether the opposition Labour party is recovering support from Scotland’s dominant pro-independence party. Margaret Ferrier is a former lawmaker for the Scottish National Party (SNP) who represented Rutherglen…
First Minister of Wales, Prof Mark Drakeford MS, recognised Professor Hasmukh Shah BEM for his long-standing service to the NHS at a BAPIO (British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin) event in Wales last Sunday (30). Shah has worked for almost 50 years in NHS and was recognised for his…
INDIA swiftly erased the memory of a poor second match to annihilate the West Indies by 200 runs in the decisive third and final one-day international at the Brian Lara Stadium in Tarouba, Trinidad and Tobago, on Tuesday (1). Even with senior players in captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli…
South Korean music group Tomorrow X Together is set to take the stage at the upcoming Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago, US, as a first-time headliner. Also called TXT, the band first performed at the gala in 2022. According to a press release, TXT will become the second K-pop act…
The Warner Bros. Film Group in the United States has issued a public apology about social media activity concerning the ‘Barbenheimer’ meme, which has caused outrage in Japan, Variety reported. “Warner Brothers sincerely apologises for its recent insensitive social media engagement.” “The studio sincerely apologises,” the firm wrote in an…
Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah, one of the longest-running sit-coms on Indian television, has been making headlines for some time now for all the wrong reasons. It has not been long since actress Jennifer Mistry, who plays the role of Mrs. Roshan Sodhi on the show, accused producer Asit Modi…
PAKISTAN’S headline inflation eased for the second month in a row in July, government data released on Tuesday (1) showed, but a fuel price hike announced overnight could see a fresh rise in August. Year-on-year inflation was 28.3 per cent compared with 29.4 per cent in June, the Bureau of…
A group of 11 women sanitation workers from the southern Indian state of Kerala decided to pool their money to buy a lottery ticket in June, and to their delight, last week they discovered that they had won the jackpot worth 100 million rupees ($1.2 million; £946,685). These women are…
PAKISTAN prime minister Shehbaz Sharif has offered talks with India to address all serious and outstanding issues as he said ‘war is not an option’ for either countries as both fight poverty and unemployment. Sharif made the remarks while addressing the inaugural session of the Pakistan minerals summit. The meeting,…
THE England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has failed to step up and investigate why Lord Ian Botham trashed an independent report which found cricket to be racist and misogynist, according to those close to the sport. Eastern Eye has spoken to several prominent cricket sources who have accused the game’s…
