- Wednesday, May 14, 2025
A British lawmaker who once commanded UN peacekeeping troops in Bosnia was fined after being found guilty of racial abuse. Tory MP Bob Stewart, 74, was convicted of a racially aggravated public order offence on Friday (3) and ordered to pay £600 ($743) plus costs after a one-day trial at…
AS A SPECIAL treat in time for Diwali, the Royal Horticultural Society has given Kalpesh and Shailesh Solanki, Eastern Eye’s group managing editor and executive editor respectively, an exclusive guided tour of its famed garden at Wisley in Surrey. The idea is to encourage more British Asians to discover the…
AN UNUSUAL exhibition by Manish Pushkale, an Indian artist who has been inspired by a “bird whisperer” in the remote Andaman Islands, opened last week in Paris. The exhibition, in a series called Carte Blanche, will run at the Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts until spring next year. The…
THE Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has an upbeat Diwali message for Eastern Eye readers – they, too, can be part of the fight against climate change in Britain if each one plants a tree and strives for a greater diversity of plants, vegetables, flowers and wildflowers as well as creepers in their…
The support on offer for patients at their GP practice is expanding, thanks to thousands more healthcare staff working in local communities. NHS England is raising awareness of the support available, following a survey that reveals that almost one third (31%) of South Asian people in England are unaware of…
AN INCREDIBLE career has seen Apache Indian become a great British music icon. Whether it has been creating a new musical genre, monster hits like Boom Shak-A-Lak, world-class collaborations, trailblazing moments or setting up an academy for new talent, he has had three decades of brilliance. The singer, songwriter and…
After two successful seasons, Season 3 of The Sex Lives of College Girls is highly anticipated by the fans. The HBO Max series from Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble follows four freshman roommates at the elite East Coast Essex College, where there were illicit affairs, sexual awakenings, and identity crises as Whitney (a star…
The second season of Game of Thrones spin-off House of the Dragon will premiere on HBO in “early summer” of 2024. HBO chief Casey Bloys shared the news during a New York press event where the sophomore chapter’s first trailer was also showcased, entertainment news outlet Variety reported. House of the Dragon, which premiered…
SCOTLAND’s first minister Humza Yousaf confirmed on Friday (3) that his parents in-law had managed to leave Gaza and enter Egypt through the Rafah crossing. Elizabeth and Maged El-Nakla, the parents of Yousaf’s wife Nadia, became trapped in the Palestinian territory after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel. They were…
Mira Nair, who is globally known for such notable films as Salaam Bombay, The Namesake, and Monsoon Wedding to name a few, is currently serving as Head of the Jury for the South Asia Competition at the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2023. During her masterclass at the festival, Nair said that…
