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Edinburgh University professor receives a disturbing post

Leading Scottish Public Health Expert and Professor of Global Public Health, Devi Sridhar, has come forward to reveal an incident that took place in the summer of last year. A member of the Scottish government’s Coronavirus Advisory Board mentioned that she received a post containing white powder and a used mask with the words “I […]

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Court finds Scottish GP guilty of sexual harassment against women

North Lanarkshire general practitioner Dr Krishna Singh has been found guilty of 54 sex offence charges against his female patients which took place between February 1983 and May 2018. The doctor, who was awarded an MBE by the UK government in 2013, was involved in multiple sexual assaults which mostly took place at medical practices

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Author becomes the first Indian to win International Booker Prize

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

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Bollywood star Vidya Balan starts filming her upcoming movie in the UK

Bollywood actress Vidya Balan has arrived in the UK to film her upcoming project ‘Neeyat’ directed by Anu Menon. Her most recent film, Jalsa, released on streaming platforms and proved to be a big hit among the audience. The talented actress, known for playing diverse roles effortlessly, will be starring opposite other accomplished actors including Rahul

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Afghan interpreter and asylum seeker desperate to reunite with his family since 2016

Mohammed Nabi Wardak, an Afghan interpreter who helped the British Army in Pakistan and was described as a ‘hero’ by many has expressed his anger towards the British Government. Wardak had to flee his home country in 2016 because the Taliban were planning to kill him for helping the British military and had to leave

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Former Gurkha soldier becomes the first person to reach Everest basecamp with prosthetic legs

Hari Budha Magar, a former Gurkha soldier and Global Goodwill Ambassador of the Positive Thought Movement, recently became the first person to reach the Everest base camp with prostheses. Magar, lost both his legs during war in 2010 during an ambush while on duty in Helmand, Afghanistan. But, that did not stop him from conquering

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British student gets stuck in Pakistan after he runs out of money

Miles Routledge, a 22-year-old student from Loughborough University has said that he is trapped in Pakistan after travelling to the borders to save his tour guide from a previous trip. The Physics student has been known to Google the most dangerous places on Earth and travels to these locations despite government advice against doing so.

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