- Friday, February 28, 2025
THERE perhaps won’t be a more unique and enlightening South Asian short film than Your Love this year. The powerful romantic drama had its North American premiere at the recent OUTFEST Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Festival and is based on a South Asian woman who came out of the closet in her 60s. The…
FORMER chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng held back official warnings that borrowing was on course to rocket even before he attempted his ill-fated budget plans, new documents from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) show. Kwarteng’s Growth Plan published on Sept. 23 formed the biggest package of tax cuts in decades and…
LABOUR’S failure to take former prime minister Boris Johnson’s old parliamentary seat in the by-election last week shows the party still has a long way to go to win power, leader Sir Keir Starmer said last Saturday (22). The party won in Selby and Ainsty, a once-safe Conservative parliamentary seat…
AN Indian citizen, who was swept into Pakistan by floodwaters of the river Sutlej has been handed over to an intelligence agency, officials in Pakistan’s Punjab province said on Wednesday (26). “The Indian national who is in his 50s is deaf and communicates through sign language. He said he is…
THE star of Britain’s crown jewels, the Koh-i-Noor diamond, is back on view after a notable absence from King Charles’s coronation that highlighted the nation’s awkward ties with its colonial past. The massive stone has appeared at formal occasions for more than 150 years, but Charles’s wife Camilla opted not…
SRI LANKAN president Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday (26) will hold an all-party meeting to discuss the thorny issue of ethnic reconciliation of minority Tamils in the island nation. The meeting was called by the president to discuss the government’s national reconciliation programme and the way forward. The all-party move comes…
A LOT of stories with South Asian protagonists will usually tread on tried and tested paths that lead towards story troupes that would have been covered before in some way. But this boundarybreaking book steers away down an unknown road filled with surprises, interesting twists and unexpected pitstops. London-based Anisa…
In a world-first study conducted by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, it has been revealed that having a food allergy during infancy is linked to asthma and impaired lung function in later childhood. The research, published in the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health and spearheaded by Murdoch Children’s Associate Professor…
INDIA’S Sumit Nagal won his second ATP Challenger title of the year with a straight sets victory over fifth seed Dalibor Svrcina of the Czech Republic in the Tampere Open in Finland, last Sunday (23). Nagal, seeded seventh in the event, defeated the fifth-seeded Svrcina 6-4, 7-5 in the final.…
FAST bowler Jasprit Bumrah, recuperating from a back injury, is bowling with full intensity in the nets, India’s cricket board said last Friday (21), boosting his chances of playing in the ODI World Cup. Bumrah, 29, has been out of action since September and had surgery in New Zealand in…
