- Friday, April 25, 2025
CYCLONE BIPARJOY tore down power poles and uprooted trees on Friday (16) after pummelling the Indian coastline, though the storm was weaker than feared and there were no immediate reports of casualties. More than 180,000 people in the Indian state of Gujarat and Pakistan’s Sindh province fled the path of…
The former Yorkshire chairman, Colin Graves, has been criticised by England cricket chiefs for claiming that incidents of racism at his former club were “banter”. Last month, six former Yorkshire players who were found guilty of using racist language in the Azeem Rafiq case, were fined by the Cricket Discipline…
Former home secretary Priti Patel has been rewarded with a damehood as Boris Johnson awarded his political aides and allies with some of Britain’s highest honours to mark his resignation last year as prime minister. Kulveer Ranger, who served as director of transport when Johnson was the mayor of London,…
Former prime minister Liz Truss acknowledged “mistakes” on her part but attributed the failure of her policies to the economic “establishment” in her first televised interview since her short-lived tenure as prime minister last year. Truss, who was ousted after a mere 49 days in office, cautiously expressed regrets while…
CANADA will freeze the planned deportation of dozens of students who entered the country using fraudulent university letters of acceptance, immigration minister Sean Fraser has said. Fraser spoke after the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported in March that several students from India had been served deportation papers for using forged documents…
Sue Carr has become the first woman to be appointed as the highest-ranking judge for England and Wales in a historic announcement on Thursday (15). Carr, 58, a distinguished UK lawyer with a veteran status was named as the successor to the current Lord Chief Justice, Ian Burnett, who is…
With the next UK general election looming over the horizon, upwardly-mobile British Indians will be a critical voter constituency in various parts of the country. In recent times, there has been a fraying of relations between the wider British Indian population and the Labour Party. In the 2015 general election,…
Bollywood star Kangana Ranaut, who is currently busy promoting her upcoming production Tiku Weds Sheru talked about her marriage plans. Talking exclusively to ANI on Wednesday, Kangana said, “There’s a time for everything and if that time has to come in my life then it will come. I do want to get…
Actress Nimrat Kaur, on Friday, penned down a long emotional note as she wrapped up the shooting of her upcoming courtroom drama film Section 84. Helmed by Ribhu Dasgupta, the film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Diana Penty, Nimrat Kaur, and Abhishek Banerjee in the lead roles. Taking to Instagram, Nimrat shared a string…
As someone who has parallel careers in Hindi cinema and Hollywood, actor Ali Fazal believes he hasn’t been “pushed enough” as an artist. The actor, who is known in India for such movies as Fukrey, Happy Bhag Jayegi, and Bobby Jasoos, as well as the hit Prime Video series Mirzapur and has done Hollywood features such…
