- Monday, March 03, 2025
The director who was removed from the board of the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust following a dispute in March has alleged that the company is ‘seriously misleading’ shareholders. Amar Bhidé lodged a complaint with the Financial Conduct Authority, asserting that Scottish Mortgage had misrepresented the primary cause of his disagreement…
A British teenager who detectives believe may have been just hours away from launching an attack on police or soldiers, was on Friday (2) sentenced to a minimum of six years in jail for terrorism offences. Matthew King, 19, who converted to Islam during the Covid-19 lockdown and then became…
THE World Bank’s new president Ajay Banga has asked the lender’s 16,000 staff to “double down” on development and climate efforts as he seeks to accelerate the bank’s evolution to tackle the most pressing global problems. On his first day in the job, the former Mastercard CEO told staff in…
Jaguar Land Rover will henceforth be known only by its initial letters ‘JLR’ as the British carmaker has unveiled a new logo to reflect its “modernity” and “forward-thinking essence”. The new brand identity seeks to “remove ambiguity and bring to the fore the unique DNA of each of JLR’s brands…
BARCLAYS chief executive C S Venkatakrishnan held a virtual town hall this week to address management changes that have led to about two dozen US investment bankers fleeing in the last few weeks, people familiar with the matter said. The bankers have left for rivals including Citigroup, UBS Group and…
Rana Daggubati is looking forward to the multi-lingual film Project K, starring Prabhas, Deepika Padukone, and Amitabh Bachchan in lead roles. During a recent event, the Baahubali star said that the film will break new boundaries. “We celebrate each other’s cinema fully. Like there is another film called Project K, which Nag Ashwin is…
Actress Karishma Tanna says she always wanted to work with filmmaker Hansal Mehta, a wish that came true with the Netflix series Scoop. Tanna believes she manifested the role for herself and recalled the message that she sent to the filmmaker after she watched his critically-acclaimed series Scam 1992. “I believe a…
Veteran filmmaker Mani Ratnam is celebrating his 67th birthday today. He is presently riding high on the thunderous success of his latest directorial Ponniyin Selvan. However, Ratnam has several blockbuster films to his credit. Let’s look at his top 5 widely popular films that one can watch several times. Roja Fronted…
India topped as the nationality of foreign workers granted work visas in the UK in the year to March, official figures revealed as Britain struggles to tackle its labour shortage after Brexit. One out of three migrants given a British work visa during the period was an Indian, The Times reported, citing…
THE governments new free-speech champion, Prof Arif Ahmed, said that universities face urgent threats to free speech and academic freedom, reported The Times. Ahmed, a professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge, was recently appointed as the first director for freedom of speech and academic freedom at the Office for…
