Geetanjali Shree has become the first Indian winner of the International Booker Prize, a literary award ceremony hosted in London on Thursday, for her novel Tomb of Sand. She was chosen as the winner out of a total of six finalists, which included Polish Nobel literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk, Claudia Piñeiro of Argentina and South

Image by University of Huddersfield The growing political and economic instability in Sri Lanka as a result of the government’s inability to pay off a multi-million-pound foreign debt has resulted in many prospective students being deferred by the University of Huddersfield until next year. In an email to the students, the university mentioned, “As a

Image by London Fire BrigadeCaption An Indian restaurant in North West London was partially destroyed in a huge fire that needed the assistance of around 70 firefighters from the London Fire Brigade in the early morning hours of 25 May. The firefighters arrived at the Spice Klub on Peel Road, Harrow at around 6am where

Image by Tayfun Salcı/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock Imran Ahmad Khan, former Conservative MP in Wakefield, has been jailed for 18 months after being found guilty of sexually abusing a young teenage boy in 2018. Khan, who says that he is innocent, was accused of groping by the victim, now 29 years old, in 2019 days after winning his

Image by Getty As the UK inflation has significantly risen by 9% in a year as of April 2022, it became clear that this was the highest level it reached since 1982. As a result of the rising costs across the country, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned of tough times ahead. Sunak reassured businesses that the

Image by Cavendish Press (Manchester) Ltd Manchester-based millionaire Ajmail Dusanj got away with getting his license banned by suggesting that he never received the police paperwork at his luxury manor house in South Staffordshire. Dusanj, one of the richest Asian men in the country, was caught driving his luxury car at a speed of 40mph

Image by Adel Itani / NurPhoto via Getty Images The untimely death of celebrated and revered Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh came as a shock to the world. As a result, Preston mosques released a joint statement criticising the attack. Akleh was well-known for her work in the field in the Arab world, especially

Home Secretary Priti Patel has lifted restrictions on police officers permanently, allowing them to use their stop-and-search powers to avoid violent crimes under Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act. This allows officers to search people if they think anticipate a violent crime to occur. Officers can look for weapons before they