- Sunday, March 09, 2025
TRIBUTES have been paid to a hotel manager who was killed in a collision at Kensington High Street last week. Niksan D’Costa, 27, was crossing the road in west London on Thursday (23) night when he was struck by a vehicle. According to reports, he was pronounced dead at the…
BRITAIN is pursuing a “great” trade deal with India to cut tariffs and open up opportunities for the country’s services sector, UK trade and industry secretary Kemi Badenoch has said. Highlighting her priorities since taking charge of the newly merged department for business and trade, Badenoch said her ministry is…
THE Indian owner of carmaker Jaguar Land Rover has requested £500 million ($603m) from the British government to help it build a UK battery plant, the Financial Times reported Wednesday (1). Tata Motors has given the government “weeks” to pledge financial support as it decides whether to build the factory in Britain…
THE COFFINS of 65 victims of a devastating migrant shipwreck off Italy’s southern coast were laid out Tuesday (28) in a local sports hall, five of them small and white, containing the bodies of the youngest children that died. Flower bouquets adorned each coffin in the building in Crotone, while…
British house prices last month dropped in annual terms for the first time in nearly three years, mortgage lender Nationwide said on Wednesday (01) adding to signs of a slowdown in the housing market in the face of high inflation and rising borrowing costs. The 1.1 per cent fall was…
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday (28) urged pro-UK politicians in Northern Ireland to grab the economic “prize” on offer after he secured a breakthrough reform deal with the European Union. On a visit to the tense province, Sunak said he was “over the moon” at clinching the pact…
The G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting (FMM), which is scheduled to take place in physical format from March 1-2, 2023 in New Delhi under India’s Presidency is “one of the largest gatherings of foreign ministers hosted by any G20 Presidency.” In a special briefing by Foreign Secretary (FS) Vinay Kwatra on…
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday (01) held a bilateral meeting with UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, holding discussions on the commencement of the Young Professional Scheme. He also exchanged views on the global situation as well as the G20 agenda. “Began the morning with a bilateral meeting with…
INDIA imposed by far the highest number of internet shutdowns in the world in 2022, internet advocacy watchdog Access Now has said, as the country topped the list for the fifth successive year. Out of 187 internet shutdowns globally recorded by Access Now, 84 took place in India, including 49…
INDIAN-AMERICAN Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Tuesday (28) made it clear that if she is voted to power in 2024, the US will not be the “world’s ATM” and pay “bad guys” like Pakistan hundreds of millions of dollars. In the op-ed in the New York Post, Haley wrote that…
