- Saturday, March 01, 2025
PAKISTAN and several African nations called for more protections for migrants at the UN Human Rights Council on Monday (26) following the shipwreck off the Greek coast. At least 82 people died and hundreds more are feared dead in the June 12-13 shipwreck along the world’s most deadly migration route…
FORMER health secretary Matt Hancock on Tuesday (27) apologised for the country’s lack of preparedness for the Covid pandemic, telling an official inquiry that long-term and global “doctrinal” failures were to blame. “The central failing that hampered the UK’s response, common with the rest of the Western world, was the…
THE most number of care workers sponsored for work visas in UK were from India (33 per cent), followed by Zimbabwe (16 per cent), Nigeria (15 per cent) and the Philippines (11 per cent), a new report has revealed. The study by the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford…
BRITISH Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his teenage son Suleman who both perished in the submersible Tatan in the Atlantic Ocean had long cherished a dream of viewing the wreck of the Titanic. Christine – Dawood’s wife and Suleman’s mother – said she had previously planned to go with her…
CRICKET owes Azeem Rafiq and Lord Kamlesh Patel of Bradford an apology for the way they were treated in exposing and trying to overcome racism in cricket, the chair of an independent inquiry has told Eastern Eye. After a two-and-a-half-year review of the sport, the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket…
ENGLAND cricket chiefs have promised to “reset” the game after an independent report on Tuesday (27) said not enough had been done to tackle institutional racism and sexism in the game. The England and Wales Cricket Board set up the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket in 2021 to look…
ENGLAND have named seamer Josh Tongue as a surprise pick in their team for the second Ashes test against Australia at Lord’s which starts on Wednesday (28), replacing injured spinner Moeen Ali, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said on Tuesday (27). Off-spinner Ali was nursing a finger injury in the…
THE third edition of the reunion of former cricketers in Kenya will be held on 26 August 2023 at the Golden Tulip Hotel, Muthithi Road, Westlands, Nairobi, a statement said. An organising committee comprises of experienced past and present officials, Kenya international cricketers and social volunteers was formed for the…
A recently released report, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the National Health Service (NHS), highlights that the UK’s performance on crucial health metrics is a matter of “serious concern” and falls behind comparable countries. The report, conducted by the King’s Fund charity, examined the health systems of 19 similar nations.…
SRI LANKAN authorities have declared a five-day closure of financial markets from Thursday (29) ahead of a controversial move to restructure the government’s domestic debt amounting to more than $51 billion. The restructuring affects government bonds in line with an IMF bailout agreed in March, after Sri Lanka defaulted on…
