- Friday, February 28, 2025
FORMER Australia coach Justin Langer (below) has been appointed to replace Zimbabwe’s ex-England coach Andy Flower at the helm of the Indian Premier League’s Lucknow Super Giants, the team announced. The Lucknow franchise only made their debut in the world’s most valuable cricket tournament two years ago and have finished…
INDIA’S economic intelligence agency conducted searches against Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal on Wednesday as part of a fresh money-laundering investigation against him and others, officials said. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided several premises in Mumbai and other locations. The money-laundering case stems from a recent first information report (FIR)…
INDIAN billionaire Gautam Adani on Thursday (20) said he plans to convert India’s largest slum in Mumbai, Dharavi, into a modern city hub, a huge challenge which would require the rehousing of around one million people. Believed to be the largest slum in Asia, Dharavi is a crowded area that…
Susan Hall has been elected as the Conservatives’ candidate to run for mayor of London. It was announced, on Wednesday (19) morning, Hall had defeated her rival Moz Hossain, winning 57 per cent of the vote, against his 43 per cent, reports Noah Vickers. Hall, who will go up against…
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has restarted its investigation into allegations of bullying and harassment against its chair, Kishwer Falkner. The investigation was paused earlier this year due to leaks to the media. The EHRC appointed a senior lawyer to conduct an independent inquiry into the complaints. Details…
AT LEAST nine people were killed after a speeding car ploughed into a crowd gathered at an accident site on a bridge in India on Thursday (20). A police constable who reached the spot after a collision between two vehicles, was among those killed in the second incident in the…
A seven-year-old British Indian schoolgirl, who started volunteering for UN sustainability initiative against microplastic pollution when she was just three, has been awarded the prime minister’s Points of Light award. Moksha Roy, who received the award from deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden last week, has the distinction of being the…
A 25-year-old Indian student of the University of Houston (UH) has been fighting for her life after being struck by lightning, officials said. Susroonya Koduru, a foreign exchange student studying Information Technology at the university, was walking along the pond with her friends on July 4th weekend, at the San…
In a historical move, British passports will bear the title of “His Majesty” for the first time in 70 years, as they begin to be issued this week under the name of King Charles III. The new design update was unveiled by UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman on Tuesday evening…
EDINBURGH has many links with India, but the latest, most significant discovery is the exact location of the grave of Annapurna Turkhud, a Marathi woman who developed an affectionate relationship with the Bengali poet and Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore, when she was 20 and he was 17. Some scholars…
