- Thursday, March 06, 2025
South Asian entertainment witnessed a new dawn at the 95th Academy Awards as mega-blockbuster RRR, currently streaming on ZEE5 Global across the globe, etched a historic win for Best Original Song for Naatu Naatu. Naatu Naatu, composed by MM Keeravani, didn’t just win the Oscar, the largest and most prestigious award…
Shaunak Sen, director of All That Breathes, says that he has received an avalanche of messages of “encouragement/support” after his climate change documentary lost out to Navalny at the Oscars. “Naatu Naatu” from RRR (2022) and the documentary film The Elephant Whisperers emerged as winners in the Original Song and Documentary Short Film categories at the 95th…
In January, Eleanor Williams, a 22-year-old from Barrow-in-Furness, was found guilty of nine counts of perverting the course of justice. She had falsely claimed to have been raped and trafficked by an Asian grooming gang and made similar false rape allegations against several other men. On Tuesday (14), she was…
The trial of Mohammed Taroos Khan, who stands accused of killing his niece Somaiya Begum, came to a sudden halt due to unforeseen circumstances. One of the jurors involved in the case was involved in a car accident, while another suffered an injury from a fall. Khan, who resides on…
A former Home Office adviser has branded home secretary Suella Braverman’s migration policy as ‘racist’, adding that it will make the Tories seem ‘cruel and heartless’. Nimco Ali, a one-time campaigner for the Tories who left her job as a government adviser in December last year, told the Guardian that the British…
Britain’s government has extended the deadline by nearly three months to fill historic gaps in National Insurance records and help increase the amount its people receive in state pension. The new deadline to top up the state pension is July end instead of April 5 and the extension followed public…
India remained the world’s top arms importer, but its imports declined by 11 per cent between 2013-17 and 2018-22, according to a Stockholm-based defence think tank. The decline was linked to a complex procurement process, efforts to diversify arms suppliers and attempts to replace imports with local designs, a Stockholm…
Pakistani police and Imran Khan supporters clashed outside the former prime minister’s home in the eastern city of Lahore on Tuesday (14), injuring several on both sides ahead of his possible arrest, according to a government spokesman and witnesses. The police used batons to charge the supporters and lobbed teargas…
Increased childcare funding is expected to feature in the UK government’s budget, in a bid to ease pressure on families and particularly women. Childcare costs in the UK are among the highest in the 38-nation OECD, accounting for nearly a third (29 per cent) of a family’s income compared to…
Growth in pay in Britain, which the Bank of England is watching closely as it weighs up whether to pause its run of interest rate hikes next week, lost pace in the three months to January, official data showed on Tuesday (14). Basic pay, excluding bonuses, rose by 6.5 per…
