- Friday, February 28, 2025
GROWING UP, Dominique DeLeon spent many hot summers in a built-up neighbourhood in the city of Birmingham, in central England, where she lived through deprivation and had little access to nature or green spaces to help her cool down. Though she has moved to a different part of town, ever…
SOCIAL media platform Twitter has sought to quash an Indian court decision that found it non-compliant with content removal orders, arguing the ruling could embolden the government to block more content. Twitter, rebranded now as X, sought in July 2022 to overturn some government orders to remove content from its…
DONALD TRUMP was indicted on Tuesday (1) over his efforts to upend the results of the 2020 US election — the most serious legal threat yet to the former president as he campaigns to return to the White House. It is the third criminal indictment of the 77-year-old Trump since…
Indian film personalities such as Riteish Deshmukh, Siddhartha Basu, and Neil Nitin Mukesh on Wednesday paid tributes to renowned art director Nitin Desai, calling him a “genius” and a “positive soul”. Desai, a four-time National Award winner, was found hanging on Wednesday at his studio in Maharashtra’s Raigad district neighbouring…
Actor Ayushmann Khurrana on Tuesday said he has challenged the idea of “toxic masculinity” right from the beginning of his career and is confident his upcoming film Dream Girl 2 will take the discourse to another level. At the trailer launch of Dream Girl 2, the actor was asked to comment on how…
MOHAMMAD Kamal Syed has been appointed interim chief executive of NatWest’s private banking arm Coutts to succeed Peter Flavel who resigned over the Nigel Farage scandal. “Mo has extensive wealth management experience and is the ideal person to lead Coutts through this difficult time…,” NatWest’s interim CEO Paul Thwaite said…
According to research published in The Lancet Haematology, new data covering three decades (1990–2021) of global anaemia data revealed that in 2021, twice as many women compared to men were found to have anaemia. The prevalence factor was more than three times higher in women during their reproductive age. The…
London-based author Chetna Maroo’s debut novel, Western Lane, is among 13 books to make the cut for the 2023 Booker Prize longlist revealed on Tuesday (1). Kenya-born Maroo’s novel, set within the British Gujarati community, was praised by the Booker judges for its use of the sport of squash as…
According to reports on Monday (31), Anita Sheoran, the gold-medal-winning wrestler at the Commonwealth Games and a witness in a sexual harassment case against the current head of India’s wrestling federation, has submitted her candidature for the upcoming elections. Sheoran, aged 38, is the sole female candidate in the running…
The Swedish government announced on Tuesday (01), its plan to “intensify” border controls in response to a deteriorating security situation triggered by a series of protests involving desecrations of the Quran. The protests, which included burning pages of the Quran in public, have led to tensions between Sweden and Muslim…
