- Saturday, March 01, 2025
RETAILERS and the film industry helped Britain’s economy inch higher in April, despite contractions in manufacturing and construction, according to data on Wednesday (14) that pointed to slow growth rather than recession. Britain’s economy grew by 0.2 per cent month-on-month in April, the Office for National Statistics said, matching the…
The Conservative party has attracted more funding from Asian business leaders and companies than Labour, latest data shows, with one prominent industrialist donating £2 million to the ruling party. Sanjay (left) and Vipul Vadera Amit Lohia, 48, a director at Indorama Ventures, emerged as one of the biggest individual Asian…
A 27-YEAR-OLD Indian-origin woman has been stabbed to death in north London. Scotland Yard on Wednesday (14) said two men were arrested in connection with the murder. The incident took place at a residential property in Neeld Crescent, Wembley on Tuesday (13). While the murder victim is yet to be…
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak standing up to Boris Johnson could be the making of him as a leader, an Asian parliamentarian told Eastern Eye. Sunak on Monday (12) revealed that his predecessor had asked him to “do something that I wasn’t prepared to do,” in relation to the latter’s resignation honours…
TRIBUTES have been paid to an Asian student who was killed in an incident in Nottingham on Tuesday (13). University of Nottingham student Grace Kumar, 19, was stabbed to death alongside fellow first-year student Barnaby Webber, 19, in an apparently random attack. Another 50-year-old man also found dead with knife…
For motorists wanting to put “Singh” or “Krishna” on a personalised number-plate, the price tag could put the brakes on such ambitions. The most expensive registrations sold at auction were revealed by the government’s Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA). And “51 NGH” made the top 10 after being bought…
Former US president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Tuesday (13) to federal criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national-security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them. Trump’s plea, entered before US Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman in a federal court in Miami, sets…
SOME 200 migrants cast shadows in the faint early sunshine across the dunes of Gravelines beach in northern France, anticipating a police chase as they attempt to cross the waters before them to England. At least 7,610 people have been detected in small boats off Britain’s coast so far this…
Tata Steel UK chairman, Henrik Adam, has urged the UK government to provide subsidies to decarbonise the Port Talbot steelworks of the company. He said that European competitors were receiving huge amounts from governments to transition to greener operations. According to reports, ministers offered Tata £300 million for decarbonisation. Port…
PAKISTAN paid for its first government-to-government import of discounted Russian crude oil in Chinese currency, the South Asian country’s petroleum minister has said, a significant shift in its US dollar-dominated export payments policy. Discounted crude offers a respite as Pakistan faces an economic crisis with an acute balance of payments…
