- Tuesday, April 29, 2025
India and the UK on Thursday (27) began a two-week military exercise in Britain’s Salisbury Plain as part of efforts to consolidate their military ties. Soldiers of the 2 Royal Gorkha Rifles from the UK and Indian Army troops from the Bihar Regiment are participating in the ‘Ajeya Warrior’ exercise,…
Rishi Sunak faces his first big electoral test as the Prime Minister next week in local polls where the opposition Labour Party hopes to capitalise on a year of chaos for the governing Conservatives, ahead of a national election expected next year. Sunak has tried to restore the credibility of…
Nationalist movements within the British Asian community have become more prevalent in recent years and could “destabilise British society”, a major independent faith review in the UK has stated. The report by the government’s faith adviser, Colin Bloom, added that the change can be seen in small mobilisation of Hindu…
Nationalist movements within the British Asian community have become more prevalent in recent years and could “destabilise British society”, a major independent faith review in the UK has stated. The report by the government’s faith adviser, Colin Bloom, added that the change can be seen in small mobilisation of Hindu…
A new British law which seeks to bar the entry of asylum seekers arriving in small boats across the Channel was approved by the lower house of parliament on Wednesday, after the government accepted several amendments from rebel Conservatives. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has made stopping small boat arrivals one…
Pop culture icon Ranveer Singh was spotted in New York today, ahead of the highly anticipated Tiffany & Co. event. The paparazzi (Elder Ordonez) caught him near Soho House, dressed in a Gucci x Adidas outfit that looked nothing short of stunning. As always, Ranveer set some fashion goals for…
Music maestro AR Rahman recently requested his wife Saira Banu to speak in Tamil instead of Hindi at an awards show. A video has been doing the rounds on the internet in which the Oscar-winning composer is seen accepting an award on stage with Saira Banu by his side in…
Terming the popularity of south cinema in the Hindi belt “a return gift”, filmmaker Mani Ratnam says it’s fantastic that films are now recognised as Indian and not as works from the “north, or south or a Hindi film”. Ratnam, who mostly works in Tamil but has also done movies…
The Habitat Film Festival will return with its 15th edition, to be held in the national capital from May 5 to 14, and screen award-winning documentaries, including Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes, and a retrospective on late filmmaker Mrinal Sen. The festival, which will be held at the India Habitat Centre…
Director Nida Manzoor is aiming to change the way Asian women are viewed on the screen with her new action comedy Polite Society. The London-set film follows Ria Khan (Priya Kansara), a bolshy schoolgirl and martial artist-in-training who dreams of becoming a world-renowned stunt woman. When she witnesses her big sister Lena…
