• Monday, April 28, 2025

Ayushmann supports LGBTQIA+ community to turn entrepreneurs

Bollywood actor Ayushmann Khurrana is supporting the LGBTQIA+ community in Chandigarh by investing in building food trucks for the community and helping them become self-reliant through food business. The food trucks are being called “Sweekar”, promoting the importance of acceptance for the community in today’s society. Ayushmann, who is the…

Report: Shekhar Kapur to direct ‘Masoom’ sequel

According to a report, well-known filmmaker Shekhar Kapur is planning a sequel to his 1983 film Masoom, which starred Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Supriya Pathak, Saeed Jaffrey, Jugal Hansraj, and Urmila Matondkar in lead roles. Written by the legendary lyricist and screenwriter Gulzar, Masoom was an adaptation of Erich Segal’s 1980 novel Man, Woman…

Gita Gopinath: Immigration can help reduce UK inflation

IMMIGRATION can help reduce Britain’s high inflation rate, the deputy head of the International Monetary Fund has told the BBC as the UK restricts the net amount of legal migrants. UK inflation is cooling slower than expected, in part owing to sectors including hospitality and farming paying higher wages to fill large…

World Bank chief Ajay Banga meets US vice president Kamala…

THE World Bank’s newly-appointed president Ajay Banga has met US vice president Kamala Harris during which they talked about developing and implementing an action plan to raise the level of ambition in mobilising private investment. It was the first official US engagement with the World Bank since Banga took office…

Crisis-hit business lobby CBI faces survival vote

BRITAIN’S scandal-hit business lobby group, the CBI, faces a vote crucial to its survival on Tuesday (6), with members urged to back reform under new leadership after allegations of sexual harassment by staff. The Confederation of British Industry risks folding after claims that more than a dozen women were sexually…

Police charge Bob Stewart MP with racially aggravated order offence

POLICE said on Monday (5) they had charged a member of parliament (MP) from prime minister Rishi Sunak’s ruling Tory party with racially aggravated behaviour. Bob Stewart was charged after police received an online report from a man alleging he had been “verbally racially abused” in December last year. Stewart…

Moeen Ali considering test return ahead of Ashes: report

ENGLAND all-rounder Moeen Ali is considering a comeback to test cricket ahead of the Ashes against Australia after spinner Jack Leach was ruled out with a lower back stress fracture, according to reports. The 35-year-old, who announced his retirement from the longest format of the game in September 2021, is…

Maitreyi on ‘Never Have I Ever’ concluding with season 4

There is sadness but also hope that the friendships that she formed on Never Have I Ever will continue to thrive beyond the show, says series lead Maitreyi Ramakrishnan ahead of the premiere of the final season of the popular young-adult drama. The fourth and final season of the Netflix series, created…

UK writers to support WGA strike with London protest

Screenwriters from the UK are set to gather in London’s Leicester Square in support of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and their ongoing strike. The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) is inviting members to join the major June 14 protest for the US writers’ strike. The protest will…

UK to house more asylum-seekers on accommodation barges

BRITAIN has ordered two more accommodation barges to house asylum-seekers, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced on Monday (5). Sunak has pledged to stop crossings of the Channel from northern Europe made in small boats, after record numbers of people arrived last year. But huge backlogs in the processing of applications…