- Monday, May 20, 2024
AS the toll from the Covid-19 pandemic increases on a day-to-day basis workers clear space to add 400 graves to the Indian capital’s oldest functioning cemetery. On Tuesday(6) workers cleared undergrowth from wasteland beside the ruins of historic city walls in the Islamic graveyard of Jadid Qabristan in Delhi. India’s…
THE Royal College of Midwives has called for “focus on race equality”, highlighting that maternity staff from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds face were more likely to face bullying and barriers at work. Gill Walton, chief executive of the RCM, told hundreds of delegates during its virtual annual conference…
SOUMYA SRIRAMAN, the US and Canada president & CEO of streamer BritBox, a joint venture between BBC Studios and ITV, will step down at the end of October. An announcement regarding the new leadership is expected in the coming weeks. In her role, Sriraman was responsible for the overall strategy…
UK prime minister Boris Johnson is expected to meet India’s leader Narendra Modi in early 2021, it was suggested during the annual Conservative Friends of India conference on Monday (6). According to India’s high commissioner to the UK, Gaitri Issar Kumar, Johnson is planning to travel to India next year…
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo on Tuesday (6) visited Toyko to meet with some of Washington’s closest allies in Asia, Japan, Australia and India, to shore up support against what the US says is China’s dangerous and growing regional influence. It is Pompeo‘s first trip to East Asia since July 2019 and…
RISHI SUNAK has said saving jobs will take priority over tax rises, even as he noted that record borrowing and a £2 trillion debt pile cannot be sustained for long. The UK government is grappling with one of the worst economic hits to the country in three centuries, and the…
A LABOUR councillor has revealed he considered suicide after being accused of sexual harassment and suspended from the party last year. Jas Athwal, leader of Redbridge council in north London, was reinstated last month after accusations against him were rebutted. The episode, however, he continued to haunt him as he…
PAKISTAN former prime minister Nawaz Sharif his daughter Maryam Nawaz and dozens of his party leaders are facing sedition charges over comments criticising the interference of the military in national politics. Pakistani police has filed sedition charges against them on Monday(5). In September, Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League and eight other…
Shane Watson struck form with a blazing 83 in an unbeaten opening partnership of 181 with Faf du Plessis as Chennai Super Kings thrashed Kings XI Punjab by 10 wickets in the Indian Premier League on Sunday. The 39-year-old Watson hit his first half-century of the season and combined with…
INDIA’s cricket anti-corruption chief has said that an investigation has been launched after one of the players in this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) revealed that he was asked to leak information about his team. “A player has been approached. He himself immediately reported it,” said Ajit Singh, anti-corruption chief…
