- Thursday, May 01, 2025
BRITISH finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Sunday (12) that he was working with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey to “avoid or minimise damage” caused by the chaos at Silicon Valley Bank’s UK branch. “We worked at a breakneck pace over the weekend, through…
VIRAT KOHLI hit his first Test century in more than three years with a towering 186 as India batted themselves out of danger of a series-levelling defeat to Australia in the fourth Test on Sunday (12). The hosts finished their first innings on 571 to overhaul Australia’s 480 and get…
THE Indian government opposes same-sex marriage recognition, it said in a filing to the Supreme Court on Sunday (12), urging the court to reject LGBT couples’ challenges to the current legal framework. According to the filing, the ministry of law believes that, while there are various types of relationships in…
A man has been arrested after religious ornaments stolen from Leicester business in January, Leicestershire Police informed. Police said in a statement that it is looking to speak to anyone who has any information on the whereabouts of the items stolen from a shop in Lunsford Road, Northfields, Leicester between…
NEW figures have revealed that around 50 per cent of British-based diplomatic jobs in countries like India, Pakistan and China have been cut in recent years, the Guardian reported. The numbers working for embassies and consulates in these key Indo-Pacific countries have all been diminishing over the last seven years. The massive…
TIM DAVIE, the BBC‘s director general, has said he will not resign after the public broadcaster’s sport service was decimated on Saturday (11) by a backlash over Gary Lineker’s removal as Match of the Day host. “Everyone wants to resolve the situation calmly,” Davie said in an interview with the BBC. After…
LEGENDARY producer, director, and writer Nasir Hussain made unforgettable movies that entertained audiences across different generations and was largely responsible for introducing a western-inspired rock’n’roll swagger into Bollywood. He also launched new talent, who went on to become all-time greats, like iconic actress Asha Parekh and his nephew Aamir Khan.…
AUDIENCES will be seeing a lot of Akashdeep Sabir. Having started as a child actor, the Indian actor played supporting roles in recent film releases Selfiee and Shehzada, along with the acclaimed Indian adaptation of drama series The Night Manager. His other forthcoming projects include hotly anticipated web series Indian…
AS SOMEONE who didn’t actively want children, Priya Joi came around to the idea after her biological clock started to ring the alarm. She read loads of books on motherhood, but they were either amusing anecdotes about stressed mothers dreaming about an uninterrupted glass of wine in the bath, or…
Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin picked his 32nd five-wicket haul in Test cricket on the second day of the 4th and final Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia on Friday (10). Ashwin bowled 47 overs and got six Australian batsmen out in the first innings – Travis Head, Cameron Green,…
