- Sunday, March 09, 2025
A BRADFORD man involved in a wholesale drug trafficking enterprise across the UK has been jailed for 15 years. Faiz Rehman supplied cocaine, heroin and cannabis worth more than £4.2 million within a short period of 11 weeks in 2020, using the encrypted messaging platform Encrochat to traffic the drugs.…
London mayor Sadiq Khan on Friday (24) announced funding for up to 600 new homes in London for people from Ukraine and Afghanistan who have fled conflicts in their respective countries and are either homeless, at risk of being homeless or living in temporary and unsuitable accommodation, a press release…
BRITAIN will scrap the requirement for around 12,000 asylum seekers to undergo face-to-face interviews and instead ask them to fill out a questionnaire, the government said on Thursday (23), in an attempt to clear record levels of backlogs. The Home Office said all asylum seekers would still be subject to…
Veteran actor Zeenat Aman on Friday said the late Dev Anand was “completely wrong” in assuming that she had an “inter-personal relationship” with cinema icon Raj Kapoor. In his autobiography Romancing With Life (2007), Dev Anand had written about how he fell in love with Aman after they co-starred in the 1971…
Lyricist-writer Javed Akhtar on Friday said his comments on the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks during his recent visit to Pakistan have become “too big” but he had to set the record straight on certain things while he was there. Calling himself as someone who has made remarks that were “slightly…
LAST year I had written extensively about how some Bollywood stars seem to be rushing to do as many movies as possible before producers find out their time at the top is over. This has resulted in Hindi cinema being dragged down to the kind of depths that it has…
ACCLAIMED actress Bhumika Chawla has entertained audiences and starred in films across diverse languages ever since she made a dynamic debut in 2000 with Telugu film Yuvakudu. The multi-award-winning star has made a name for herself as a versatile performer able to take on any challenge and is a fan…
Veteran film star Asha Parekh, a former censor board chief, on Friday said what happened with Pathaan before its release was wrong. The film faced trouble with certain groups over the orange outfit that Deepika Padukone wore in the song ‘Besharam Rang’. The 80-year-old actor was asked to comment on the Pathaan controversy during…
Bollywood producer Boney Kapoor, on the occasion of actor Sridevi’s fifth death anniversary, dropped some unseen pictures with her. Taking to Instagram, Boney shared a throwback picture which he captioned, “My first picture …… 1984.” In the monochrome picture, Sridevi and Boney could be seen smiling. Soon after Boney shared…
TALENTED model turned actress Aditi Sharma has come a long way since she made her television debut in 2018 with the acclaimed serial Kaleerein. After delivering a winning performance in fantasy drama Yehh Jaadu Hai Jinn Ka, she has landed another lead role in the recently commenced Zee TV series…
