- Friday, February 28, 2025
AN INDIAN national arrested in the UK on a provisional US warrant as part of a coordinated action targeting terrorism financing will challenge his extradition on human rights and dual criminality grounds, a court in London was told last Wednesday (12). Madurai-born Sundar Nagarajan, 65, appeared via videolink from prison…
A TOP US rights envoy in Bangladesh said last Thursday (13) that conditions remain unsafe for the return of ethnic Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, with Washington pledging further aid for the crisis. Bangladesh and Myanmar have discussed efforts to repatriate Rohingya refugees to their homeland, where they have been subject…
THE hotel porter who raped X Factor star, Lucy Spraggan, was deported to India in 2017 after serving four years behind bars, the MailOnline has revealed. The singer-songwriter was raped by Soby John after a night celebrating fellow contestant Rylan Clark’s 25th birthday at the Mayfair nightclub Mahiki in 2012. In April…
A three-storey Islamic centre and prayer space will be built in London’s West End after the project was approved by authorities, reports said. Businessman Asif Aziz will turn the Trocadero, between Piccadilly Circus and Soho in central London, into a place of worship that can accommodate 390 people. The Trocadero…
A doctor, Dr Veena Paes, has been ordered to pay a £200,000 court bill after being accused of orchestrating a land grab from her three neighbours in a dispute over a 20 feet strip of land between their properties. In a contentious court battle, Dr Veena Paes was in dispute…
PRIME minister Rishi Sunak faces voters in very different parliamentary seats on Thursday (20) and risks losing all three contests in what would be the worst one-day mid-term result for any British governing party in more than half a century. The votes are one of few remaining opportunities to gauge…
ENGLISH hospitals were braced on Thursday (20) for the latest doctors’ strike to hit the state-run health service, with managers warning it will leave “routine care virtually at a standstill”. The two-day strike by consultants comes amid record patient waiting times due to a vast pandemic backlog and multiple strikes…
ISSUES around integration, if left unchallenged, could lead to deepening divide in community relations such as those witnessed in Leicester last year, according to the thinktank British Future. In September last year, places of worship and other properties in Leicester came under attack after community tensions rose between Hindu and…
Archie Panjabi has been receiving great response for her performance in the recently released Apple TV+ series Hijack, which also features award-winning actor Idris Elba in the lead role. The series stars Panjabi in the role of a counter-terrorist agent Zarah, who gets a tip that there has been a “serious…
Actress Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, who made her Bollywood debut opposite Shah Rukh Khan in the 1994 film Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, is presently busy promoting her comeback song “Shararat,” scheduled to be out on World Music Day, June 21. The actress recently opened up about her equation with ex-husband, filmmaker Shekhar Kapur,…
