- Thursday, June 05, 2025
KING CHARLES and other senior British royals are to relinquish patronages of almost 200 charities and organisations after a review of their association with more than 1,000 groups, Buckingham Palace said on Saturday (4). The review was launched following the death of Queen Elizabeth to examine all the charities and…
THE JOURNEY of 10 cricket pitches from Florida to New York state for the upcoming T20 World Cup is now complete. Australian Damian Hough, curator of the Adelaide Oval, oversaw the development of these “drop-in pitches,” which are currently being installed in a new stadium in Long Island. These pitches,…
Two British Indian female professionals have been unveiled in the final line-up of a challenging new real-world series set to hit UK screens next week, in which contestants are challenged to double their money within hours in pursuit of a hefty cash prize. Nutritionist-chef Radhika Howarth and historian-storyteller Seema Anand…
The wife of an Asian-origin doctor in the US, who drove his family off a cliff in his Tesla car last year, has pleaded with a judge not to jail him, according to media reports. Neha Patel’s husband, Dharmesh, 43, a radiologist from Pasadena, Los Angeles, has been charged with…
CANADA'S investigation into alleged Indian involvement in the assassination of a Sikh separatist in Vancouver last year is a “political compulsion”, India’s foreign minister S. Jaishankar said after three Indian citizens were arrested over the killing. Canadian police on Friday arrested the trio for the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar,…
Prime minister Rishi Sunak on Sunday promised to work “as hard as ever” after a disastrous set of election results saw his Conservative Party being unseated across several local authorities. The British Indian leader admitted his disappointment after Andy Street, the party’s popular Mayor of West Midlands, narrowly lost to…
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said that the Indian market has “unexplored” opportunities which his conglomerate holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, would like to tap. Buffett’s remarks came at Berkshire’s annual meeting on Friday when Rajeev Agarwal of DoorDarshi Advisors, a US-based hedge fund that invests in Indian equities, asked him about…
ONE of last year’s British theatre success stories was a winning lead performance from newcomer Tanya Katyal in big budget play, The Empress. The Indian actress overcame nerves of it being her first job after drama school, and working with an experienced creative team on a large-scaled production, to make…
MORE needs to be done to tackle barriers stopping south Asians attending eye screenings that prevent diabetic-related blindness, according to researchers. People from south Asian communities are known to be up to six times more likely to have type 2 diabetes than the general population. Diabetic retinopathy is a complication…
ANDY BURNHAM has been re-elected as Greater Manchester mayor, writes Ethan Davies. The Labour politician, who can now expect 11 years in power at the top of the city-region, collected 420,749 votes, or 63.4 per cent of the ballot. The former MP for Leigh, who has been mayor since 2017,…
