- Sunday, March 09, 2025
THE BBC is not driven by an “agenda” but by purpose and will not be put off reporting impartially and without fear or favour, the UK-headquartered media organisation’s chief has said days after the income tax department survey operation at its New Delhi and Mumbai offices. In an email to BBC staff in India…
BRITISH prime minister Rishi Sunak said he was “giving it everything” to strike a new post-Brexit deal with the European Union on Northern Ireland’s trade arrangements, calling it vital to ensuring a return to power-sharing in the province. “There’s unfinished business on Brexit and I want to get the job…
SNP leadership candidate Humza Yousaf has said that he missed the final vote on Scotland’s equal marriage legislation in 2014 due to an ‘unavoidable’ engagement about a death row prisoner in Pakistan. Alex Neil, who was in charge of the legislation eight years ago, alleged that Yousaf skipped the final…
INDIA and the UK have agreed to make further progress on the ongoing negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) and also to swiftly organise the next bilateral Economic and Financial Dialogue soon, the British government has said. At the conclusion of UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s India visit last week,…
AS PARLIAMENT returns from recess, the government will bring forward a new asylum bill to deliver the prime minister’s pledge to “stop the boats”. The bill will say that nobody who comes to the UK via a third country deemed safe, such as France, will be eligible to claim asylum…
BRITAIN is mulling over restrictions on the number of dependants international students can bring to the county as the government grapples to bring down the net immigration levels, a media report said. Ministers are considering barring students from bringing families unless they are studying at a higher level, such as…
GERMAN Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Saturday (25) said he wanted to deepen his nation’s relationship with India ahead of his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. “India and Germany have very good relations and want to deepen them. That will be the topic of our talks…
Actor Anupam Kher recently attended the ‘Global Kashmiri Pandit Conclave’ in New Delhi where he spoke at length about the ordeals of Kashmiri Pandits and how his film The Kashmir Files highlighted them. He cited the atrocities that were meted out to the Kashmiri Pandits and urged the audience to volunteer in…
Los Angeles-based Indian producer Apoorva Charan is thrilled about her critically-acclaimed debut feature film “Joyland” coming out in the UK this week and is looking forward to its India release next month. Charan, born in Hyderabad, was drawn to the very simple characters of the film set within a South…
After the earth-shattering success of Brahmastra (2022), Ranbir Kapoor is presently busy promoting his upcoming film Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar. Helmed by Luv Ranjan, the film also features Shraddha Kapoor in the lead role. Kapoor was recently in Chandigarh to promote the film. During a press conference, he was asked about his statement…
