- Friday, February 28, 2025
BANGLADESH’s top court ordered Nobel Prize winner and microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus to pay more than $1 million (£780,000) in taxes on a $7m (£5.46m) donation made to three charitable trusts, lawyers said on Monday (24). Yunus, 83, is credited with lifting millions out of poverty with his pioneering micro-credit…
Prime minister Rishi Sunak emphasised the significance of the government’s net zero targets on Monday (24) expressing his commitment to the cause. However, he also expressed concern about taking actions that could further burden people during a period of high inflation. In 2019, Britain achieved the distinction of being the…
A 24-year-old Indian student, who worked as a food delivery partner in Canada, has been killed after he was violently assaulted during a deadly carjacking, according to media reports. Gurvinder Nath was delivering pizza at around 2.10 am on July 9 in Mississauga’s Britannia and Credit-view roads, when unknown suspects…
Actor Sacha Dhawan has impressed audiences with an array of characters in his acting career, and now he is set to woo them with yet another powerful role in the much-anticipated BBC show Wolf, bankrolled via Hartswood Films, the production company behind Sherlock and Inside Man. Wolf features him in the role of Honey, a…
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has begun preparing for the 15th edition of the popular quiz game show Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC). The 80-year-old actor, who has served as the host of the reality show since its inception except for one season, shared the update on his personal blog on Sunday. “KBC preps have begun…
Celebrated filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, whose filmography boasts of such notable titles as Mr India (1987), Bandit Queen (1994), and Elizabeth (1998), will next helm a sequel to his much-loved Bollywood film Masoom (1983). The latest update on the much-talked-about sequel, titled Masoom: The Next Generation, suggests that the filmmaker has commenced work on its music. Kapur, who was recently…
A 34-year-old married Indian woman named Anju travelled to Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to meet her 29-year-old Facebook friend, Nasrulla, whom she had befriended and for whom she developed romantic feelings, police said on Sunday (23). Anju, who hails from Kailor village in Uttar Pradesh and resides in Alwar…
In India’s troubled northeastern state of Manipur, gender prevailed over the tribe as a group of enraged Indian mothers set fire to the homes of two men from their own community. The men were accused of abusing women in a video that caused widespread outrage. The region has been marred…
A bus plunged into a roadside pond in the Chhatrakanda area in Bangladesh’s Jhalakathi Sadar district on Saturday (22), resulting in 17 fatalities and more than a dozen injured. Among the fatalities were seven minors and five women. The unfortunate incident occurred as the bus was en route from Bhandari…
ONE traditional explanation of rival political philosophies is that progressives tend to be more optimistic and conservatives more pessimistic about human nature. Yet those psychological profiles are sharply reversed when the major parties consider their electoral prospects. The contrast between the Tory Tiggerish tendency and Labour’s Eeyore anxieties was rarely…
