- Monday, February 24, 2025
There are probably still six months to go before the general election – but this Thursday’s (23) statistics from the Office of National Statistics are likely to be the final net migration scores of this parliament. They are likely again to show net migration over double the level that it…
BRIGHTON and Hove has its first South Asian Muslim mayor after councillors unanimously elected councillor Mohammed Asaduzzaman to the largely ceremonial role. Traditionally, mayors take up the chains of office after many years of service on Brighton and Hove city council – not least as they are required to chair…
With two in three adults overweight in the UK, there has been a 39 per cent rise in the number of people under 40 being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in the last six years, according to media reports. The new figures from Diabetes UK show that cases of type…
ONE of the co-founders of Boohoo is facing a £20 million lawsuit from a former associate with whom he had a ‘romantic affair’ for two years. After stepping down as a Boohoo director in 2017, Jalal Kamani, 64, recruited Leanne Holmes, 41, to launch his new enterprise, I Saw It…
Bollywood actress Manisha Koirala met Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at his residence to celebrate 100 years of United Kingdom-Nepal’s friendship treaty. The Heeramandi star took to her Instagram to share a series of photographs from the celebrations at Sunak’s official residence 10 Downing Street in London. “It was an honour…
TRAILBLAZING playwright Tanika Gupta believes there is an “invisibility cloak around British Asians” on getting community stories commissioned in the arts. In a career spanning more than three decades, Gupta has written award-winning plays such as The Waiting Room and Sanctuary at the National Theatre, The Empress at the Royal…
TRANSPORT FOR LONDON (TfL) is actively pursuing several foreign embassies, including the High Commission of India in London, for not paying the city’s congestion charge spanning two decades. The congestion charge, a daily £15 fee for vehicles within central London, is part of the city’s measures to combat pollution. According…
BRITAIN’S annual inflation rate dropped to a near three-year low in April as energy prices cooled further, official data showed Wednesday, easing a cost-of-living crunch and stoking rate cut expectations. The Consumer Prices Index slowed to 2.3 per cent from 3.2 per cent in March, the Office for National Statistics…
HUNDREDS of local Sikhs carrying Khalistan flags and posters showed up at a Canadian court on Tuesday (21) after four Indian nationals accused of killing Siikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey in June last year appeared before the court for the first time. The court ordered them to have…
A 73-year-old British man died and more than 30 others were injured when a Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore was hit by severe turbulence near Thailand on Tuesday. The Boeing 777-300ER aircraft was diverted to Bangkok, where it made an emergency landing at 15:45 local time. Passengers said…
