- Friday, April 26, 2024
The Disney-owned streamer Hulu has secured the exclusive broadcasting rights to Mindy Kaling's highly anticipated comedy series, Murray Hill. The official logline for Murray Hill is as follows: “Five work-obsessed 20-somethings strive for professional success and, if they have time, personal happiness in Manhattan’s most glamorous neighborhood, Murray Hill.” Kaling,…
THE German city of Frankfurt switched on festive lights Sunday to celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in what local media said was a nationwide first. A large sign reading “Happy Ramadan” and a display of lights in the shape of stars, lanterns and crescent moons were formally unveiled…
Tuition fees have been waived at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City following a historic $1 billion donation made on Monday (26). The donor, Ruth Gottesman, the wife of a prominent Wall Street investor, was a professor at the college. Her announcement was met with emotional reactions from…
FORMER chancellor Sajid Javid was honoured with a knighthood by the Prince of Wales for his contribution to politics and public service on Wednesday (21). Javid described his knighthood as a “tremendous honour” after he was recognised for his achievements in the New Year’s Honours List announced in last December,…
INFOSYS co-founder NR Narayana Murthy was not in favour of his wife Sudha joining the company because he did not want the then start-up to be perceived as nepotistic, a new book has claimed. Murthy, whose daughter Akshata is married to prime minister Rishi Sunak, set up the company along…
Jonathan Majors was convicted on Monday of assaulting his former girlfriend after a trial that he hoped would vindicate him and restore his status as an emerging Hollywood star. It did just the opposite: Marvel Studios and the Walt Disney Co. dropped him hours after the verdict. A Manhattan jury…
India expressed concern on Thursday (30), regarding the United States' linking of an Indian official with a man accused of conspiring to kill a Sikh separatist within American territory. Indian officials affirmed that they would take subsequent actions based on the conclusions drawn by a panel investigating these allegations. India…
Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy will be honoured with the Desert Palm Achievement Award at the 2023 Palm Springs International Film Awards. Murphy will receive the honour for his portrayal of physicist J Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s critically acclaimed film at the Film Awards on January 4 at the Palm…
A combative Donald Trump took the stand on Monday (6) in the New York civil fraud case threatening his real estate empire, clashing repeatedly with the judge and denouncing the trial as a "disgrace." One year out from an election he hopes will return him to the White House, the…
After a long wait of 148 days, the Hollywood writers’ strike is officially over. According to Variety, following a tentative agreement on a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the board of the WGA West and council of the WGA East decided unanimously on Tuesday…
ONE film I am very much looking forward to seeing is Oppenheimer, partly because of the alleged quote from the Bhagvad Gita attributed to the scientist J Robert Oppenheimer, as he witnessed the horrific power of the atomic bomb he had brought into being: “Now I am become Death, the…
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was one of the most-awaited films of 2023, which opened in cinemas to glowing reviews on Friday 21. The film is based on the life of nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, widely known as the 'Father of the Nuclear Bomb' and is a silver-screen adaptation of the…
The upcoming Hollywood film Oppenheimer, which is slated to hit theatres worldwide on July 21, is one of the most-awaited films of 2023. Early reviews of the film are out and critics are hailing it as one of acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s best directorial efforts. Performances from actors Cillian Murphy…
The intimate, funny-sad musical Kimberly Akimbo nudged aside splashier rivals on Sunday to win the musical crown at the Tony Awards on a night when Broadway flexed its creative muscle amid the Hollywood writers' strike and made history with laurels for nonbinary actors J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell. Kimberly…
A US lawyer's decision to employ ChatGPT, an advanced language model, for the preparation of a crucial court filing has led to an astonishing turn of events. The artificial intelligence programme generated fabricated cases and rulings, causing immense embarrassment to the attorney involved. Steven Schwartz, a lawyer based in New…
In a stunning development that adds another layer of complexity to Donald Trump's contentious relationship with US law enforcement, the United States finds itself in unfamiliar and unprecedented territory. The mercurial Republican, currently entangled in multiple federal charges, now presents the nation with an extraordinary possibility: a winning candidate who…
Pakistan has leased its iconic Roosevelt Hotel in New York to the New York City administration for three years, the cash-strapped government has announced, in a deal that will enable the country to earn up to $220 million (£177m). The Roosevelt Hotel, named after former US president Theodore Roosevelt, has…
British-American novelist Salman Rushdie attended a New York gala on Thursday (18) night in his first public appearance since a knife attack that nearly took his life last year. The Mumbai-born writer, a naturalised American who has lived in New York for 20 years, lost sight in one eye after…
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were “pretty nervous” as they were chased by paparazzi in New York, according to an Indian-American cab driver who drove the couple for about 10 minutes after picking them up at a police station in Manhattan. Sukhcharn Singh, the driver of the couple briefly…
For theatre director Feroz Abbas Khan, taking the grand ‘Mughal-E-Azam: The Musical’ to the land of Broadway, the US, has been the biggest challenge of his career. One of the grandest Indian musicals, on its maiden American tour, will be showing at the heart of Broadway theatre at New York’s…
Former US president Donald Trump must pay $5 million in damages for sexually abusing magazine writer E Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then defaming her by branding her a liar, a jury decided on Tuesday (9). In response to the verdict, Carroll expressed that this outcome represents a triumph…
Ed Sheeran is preparing for a blockbuster tour and album release amid regular trips to Manhattan's federal court, where he's defending his songwriting in a closely watched copyright case. The trial centers on whether the British pop phenom plagiarized Marvin Gaye's 1973 soul classic "Let's Get It On" in his…
Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday (25) in a civil lawsuit pitting Donald Trump against a popular former American columnist who claims he assaulted her in the 1990s. E Jean Carroll, 79, claims Trump sexually attacked her in a New York department shop and then defamed her after she…
US voters woke on Wednesday (5) to a uniquely volatile 2024 presidential election landscape, where Donald Trump, the leading Republican candidate, now faces trial and the incumbent, Joe Biden, has not even confirmed he's running. Trump pleaded not guilty on Tuesday (4) to 34 felony charges linked to alleged attempts…
Former US president Donald Trump offered a full-throated defense of his conduct on Tuesday (4) in his first public remarks since being charged over hush money payments to a porn star, blasting the criminal prosecution as "an insult to our country." Hours earlier, he pleaded not guilty to 34 felony…
A New York grand jury has voted to indict former US president Donald Trump over hush money payments made to a porn star ahead of the 2016 election, multiple US media reported on Thursday. The felony indictment, filed under seal by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, will likely be announced…
Amid tight security, a significant number of Khalistan supporters held a protest in Times Square, demonstrating their backing for the fugitive radical preacher Amritpal Singh. The protesters initiated a car rally from the Baba Makhan Shah Lubana Sikh Centre situated in the Richmond Hill neighbourhood, which culminated at Times Square…
A second year Indian-American student at Harvard Law School has been elected president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review, becoming the first woman from the community to be named to the position in the prestigious publication’s 136-year history. A report in The Harvard Crimson said on Monday that Apsara Iyer…
The Adani Group has attempted to conflate its meteoric rise and the wealth of its Chairman, Gautam Adani, with the success of India itself, Hindenburg Research said on Monday hours after the Indian conglomerate in its rebuttal said that allegations of stock manipulation levelled by the US-based short seller amounted…
Indian American Democratic Party politician Usha Reddi has been sworn in as State Senator for District 22 in Kansas state of the US, the media reported on Friday (13). Reddi, a known community leader, on Thursday replaced longtime Manhattan Senator Tom Hawk who last month announced retirement from the Legislature,…
Actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has been roped in to play the titular hero in Marvel Studios' upcoming Disney Plus series Wonder Man. According to Variety, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton is developing the series with Andrew Guest as the head writer. Cretton, who…
It may come across as a shock but it looks like Gigi Hadid and Leonardo Dicaprio are dating! According to Page Six, the couple has advanced their relationship into a more intimate stage. However, insiders close to the couple say they are "taking it carefully." Gigi Hadid, 27, and Leonardo,…
A week after author Salman Rushdie was stabbed onstage at a literary event, writers and friends of the Mumbai-born author gathered at the New York Public Library here and read from his works, expressing their solidarity with him and his relentless advocacy for free expression. Literary and advocacy group PEN…
In a possible hate crime, unidentified persons have destroyed a handcrafted statue of Mahatma Gandhi with a sledgehammer at a Hindu temple here after vandalising it earlier this month, media reports said on Friday. Surveillance video shows a person thrashing a statue of Gandhi with a sledgehammer on Tuesday, before…
Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of former US President Donald Trump passed away on Thursday. She, 73, was found dead at her home at 10 E. 64th St. in Manhattan at 12:40 p.m. on Thursday, The New York Post reported citing police sources. As per the sources, she suffered cardiac arrest…
Christopher Rufo, the conservative academic from the right-leaning think tank the Manhattan Institute stated on his Twitter account, “obtained leaked video” on Tuesday from an upcoming episode of “Baymax!”, which is a six-episode spinoff of the popular hit film “Big Hero 6.” EXCLUSIVE: I've obtained leaked video from Disney's upcoming…
GHISLAINE MAXWELL should be sentenced to between 30 and 55 years in prison after being convicted of helping the sex offender and globetrotting financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, US prosecutors said on Wednesday (22). Maxwell, 60, was convicted in December by a federal jury on five charges, including…
A woman will face hate-crime charges for allegedly pepper-spraying four women during an anti-Asian tirade in Manhattan, according to reports. Madeline Barker, 47, is being held at Rikers Island on $20,000 bail after being arraigned on assault and hate-crime charges last week, media reports said. The NYPD earlier released the…
TWO years after fleeing political persecution in Bangladesh, Salauddin Bablu was stabbed to death in Manhattan by a man who stole the electric bike he used to deliver food during long shifts for the Grubhub app. "When Salauddin died, his family lost everything," Bablu's brother-in-law, Muhammad Ahsan, said by phone from…
INDIAN AMERICAN Suraj Patel will challenge New York Representative Carolyn Maloney again this year. The Democratic lawyer and businessman marks his third attempt to unseat the longtime incumbent, reports said. Patel lost to Maloney by less than four points in 2020. Patel recently said that his chances are bright this time…
Renowned filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s upcoming film The Kashmir Files makes India proud at the global level on Republic Day as it dominates Times Square in New York. Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri feels honoured and privileged that his hugely-anticipated film The Kashmir Files has become the first one to dominate the…
The total number of Covid-19 cases registered worldwide passed 300 million on Friday, with the Omicron variant's rapid spread setting new infection records in dozens of countries over the last week. In the past seven days, 34 countries have recorded their highest number of weekly cases since the start of…
VISHAL GARG, the Indian-American chief executive officer of US-based online mortgage lender Better.com sacked as many as 900 of his employees in a Zoom call last week. He said factors such as market efficiency, performance and productivity were the reasons for the brutal mass lay-off. “This isn't news that you’re…
SCOTTISH oil and gas producer Cairn Energy will drop legal claims against India in return for a $1 billion government refund after lawmakers ditched a tax rule allowing massive retroactive claims. New Delhi introduced a law in 2012 that gave authorities power to claim back taxes from enterprises that acquired…
SOUMIK DATTA’S animation film, Songs of the Earth, which he has written and directed, and for which he has also composed the music, is due to premiere at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow and the Royal Albert Hall in London, with a preview for delegates at 10 Downing…
Renowned Bollywood actor Anupam Kher has been invited by the Hindu University of America to be conferred upon the prestigious Honorary Doctorate in Hindu Studies at a simple Hindu Vedic ceremony in Manhattan, New York, on 18th September 2021. The Hindu University of America is a Non-Profit Public Charitable Education…
LEADING spiritual leader Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati and Indian American wellness guru Deepak Chopra discussed the “power of spirituality to heal and transform us” at an event in New York on Thursday (16). Sadhvi Bhagawati is in the US promoting her memoir, Hollywood to the Himalayas: A Journey of Healing and Transformation.…
RAPIDLY rising star Alfeeya Donna is an Arab-Indian award-winning actress, classically trained singer, and dancer, who made her film debut with recently released film Jihad –The Holy War, which was released across various online platforms in Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Bhojpuri. Her last music release was romantic breakup…
THE National Gallery of Australia will return 14 artworks to India, of which at least six are believed to have been stolen or exported illegally. The artworks, which include religion and culture related sculptures, photographs and a scroll are worth about $2.2 million (£1.8m). Some of them date back to…
FORMER chancellor Sajid Javid will replace Matt Hancock as the UK's health and social care secretary, Downing Street said on Saturday (26). Javid resigned as chancellor early last year after he refused to fire his political advisers as demanded by Johnson. The British Asian MP from Bromsgrove has previously held…
A New York-based psychiatrist has landed in trouble after giving a controversial virtual talk to Yale University staff and students in April, where she said of having fantasies of shooting white people. Dr Aruna Khilanani has defended her comments as she faced criticism from university staff and others over her…
A Bangladeshi immigrant was sentenced to life in a US prison on Thursday for a botched attempt to unleash carnage with a bomb attack in a crowded New York subway passage in the name of the Islamic State group. Akayed Ullah wounded himself and three other people in the December…
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters: Set in Victorian London and focusing on the world of petty thieves, this historical crime novel is one of my favourite books of all time. Sarah Waters’ story explores women’s social history, but it’s also a compelling page-turner with some of the best twists in literature.…
MUSICIAN ON HER MIXED HERITAGE AND UNIQUE JOURNEY by ASJAD NAZIR PERHAPS, the most interesting aspect of many new stars lighting up the musical skies has been diverse influences triggered by their cross-cultural heritage, which add new layers to songs. One rising star who is quickly carving out her own…
AUGUST 25 marks the third anniversary of attacks by Rohingya Muslim insurgents that triggered military retaliation and led to the exodus from Buddhist-majority Myanmar over following days and weeks of about 730,000 Rohingya to Bangladesh. The insurgents raided 30 police posts and an army base in Rakhine State. At least…
WALL STREET giant JPMorgan has hired former British chancellor Sajid Javid as a senior adviser, in a move that sees the politician resume his career in investment banking. Javid quit his role in government earlier this year after falling out with Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a cabinet reshuffle. He…
By Lord Simon Woolley Operation Black Vote IT WOULD be too easy to suggest that the Minnesota police officer, Derek Chauvin, and his fellow accomplices were just a bunch of ‘bad apples’ in the state police force, whose actions in broad daylight led to the death of George Floyd, 46.…
PROTESTERS defied curfews across the US on Tuesday (2) as leaders scrambled to stem anger over police racism while President Donald Trump rejected criticism over his use of force to break up a peaceful rally. Standoffs between police and demonstrators stretched into the night in cities from New York to…
FOUR St Louis police officers were hit by gunfire late on Monday during violent protests over the death of a black man in police custody, hours after President Donald Trump vowed to use the U.S. military to halt the spreading clashes. Trump deepened outrage by posing at a church clutching…
A NEW scientific modelling suggests that London is currently registering not more than 24 Covid-19 cases a day. Research by Public Health England and Cambridge University found that the capital's "RO (R-naught)", or reproduction rate, has decreased from 2.8 before the lockdwon to 0.4. "If cases continue to decrease at…
President Donald Trump on Friday (27) signed a $2 trillion rescue plan to salvage a US economy crippled by the novel coronavirus, on a day the nation's total count of COVID-19 cases surpassed 100,000. Trump's signature brings an end to a dramatic, week-long legislative saga on Capitol Hill and triggers…
THE UK and US has kick-started free trade agreement negotiations. The UK minister of State for trade policy Greg Hands MP will meet business and industry leaders, as well as US government representatives in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington. Securing a trade agreement with the US is a priority for the UK…
INDIAN-American Manhattan city mayor Usha Reddi who is running to enter the Senate from the US state of Kansas, has raised over $100,000 in campaign donation. Reddi, 54, who is seeking nomination from the Democratic party, migrated to the US along with her parents in 1973 from Andhra Pradesh when…
AN Indian national in the US has been indicted on charges of running various international money laundering schemes and operating unlicensed transmission businesses. Amit Agarwal, who was arrested in the US in December last year at Newark International Airport, operated a wholesale consumer electronics business in East Hanover in New…
by AMIT ROY TWO stolen art treasures, which were handed over last week to Ruchi Ghanashyam, the Indian high commissioner in London, will be sent back to India. A limestone relief, originating from Andhra Pradesh and estimated to be about 2,000 years old; and a 300-year-old Navaneetha Krishna bronze figure…
TWO rare artefacts with origins in Southern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu handed over to the Indian commissioner in London on the occasion of India’s 73rd Independence Day on Thursday (15). The two rare items were stolen from India. They were found after a joint probe by the…
SAJID Javid is the first Asian chancellor, one of the great offices of state. The son of a Pakistani immigrant bus driver moves to 11 Downing Street, a short distance from the Home Office, where he was the first BAME politician to head it. The 49-year-old father of four, who…
Valour and sacrifice of the Armed Forces will be honoured at this year's India Day parade, the largest parade outside India to mark the country's independence that brings together thousands of members of the diaspora for one of the biggest cultural extravaganzas in the US. With the central theme of…
A 33-year old New York man, plotting to travel to Pakistan and then to cross the border into Afghanistan to join the Taliban, was arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support for terror plots to kill US nationals and soldiers abroad. Delowar Mohammed Hossain of the Bronx was…
SAJID Javid is the first Asian chancellor, one of the great offices of state. The son of a Pakistani immigrant bus driver moves to 11 Downing Street, a short distance from the Home Office, where he was the first BAME politician to head it. The 49-year-old father of four, who…
Sajid Javid became Britain's first ethnic minority Chancellor on Wednesday (24), capping off an unlikely rise from a humble start on a street dubbed the country's worst to holding the purse strings for the world's fifth-biggest economy. The 49-year-old son of Pakistani Muslim immigrant parents, Javid cut his teeth early…
Britain's new prime minister, Boris Johnson, named Sajid Javid as Chancellor on Wednesday, a promotion for the former interior minister. "Deeply honoured to be appointed Chancellor by PM @BorisJohnson. Looking forward to working with @hmtreasury to prepare for leaving the EU, unifying our country and priming our economy for the…
AN Indian-origin founder of a Manhattan-based hedge fund firm and a former trader of the enterprise have been found guilty of securities fraud for their participation in a scheme to inflate the net asset value for hedge funds managed by the company by over $100 million. Anilesh Ahuja, also known…
India's Kumbh Mela religious megafestival wraps up on Monday with some 10 million pilgrims expected to take a final holy plunge, taking the final tally towards 250 million, officials said. "We expect at least 10 million today because it is both the last day and Mahashivratri," one of the biggest…
By PRIYA MULJI. Taking a bite out of the Big Apple. POPULAR Eastern Eye columnist Priya Mulji was recently invited to a wedding in New York and she took the opportunity to give her own unique guide to the city that never sleeps. Accompanied by her close friend Urvashi Lad, she took in the sights,…
By Andy Marino With private property in London’s fashionable East End Hackney, Bow, Whitechapel, Shoreditch– now pretty much out of reach for sub-millionaires, it’s worthwhile looking at the places where Cockeys dreamed of escaping to in past times, when the ambition was not moving into, but instead fleeing the East…
by ANDY MARINO WITH private property in London’s fashionable East End – Hackney, Bow, Whitechapel, Shoreditch – now pretty much out of reach for sub-millionaires, it’s worthwhile looking at the places where Cockneys dreamed of escaping to in past times, when the ambition was not moving into, but instead fleeing…
by ASJAD NAZIR. FORTHCOMING film Helicopter Eela sees Kajol play a devoted mother who makes a lot of sacrifices to bring up her son, but then finds it difficult to let go when he goes to college and becomes more independent. This is a situation many parents face. Eastern Eye spoke with mothers whose children are venturing…
Streaming giant Netflix has expressed interest in making more Master of None shows with Aziz Ansari, who was accused of sexual misconduct by a woman. Ansari has mostly stayed out of the public eye following the allegations against him back in January. During the Television Critics Association's press tour, Netflix…
CAMPAIGNERS WELCOME BAN ON VEHICLES IN MAJORITY OF NEW YORK’S CENTRAL PARK NEW YORK’s iconic Central Park officially goes car-free on Wednesday (11), after the final vehicle drives through the green oasis and tourist magnet in the heart of America’s most populous urban jungle. City officials, park and cycling advocates were…
Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone on Tuesday (12) reposted on her social media page a message by The Live Love Laugh Foundation on depression in the wake of recent suicides of designer Kate Space and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain. The Live Love Laugh Foundation aims to reduce the stigma, spread awareness and…
AMERICAN television studio ABC has issued an apology to Quantico fans after an episode of the crime drama showed an Indian nationalist trying to frame Pakistan in a terrorist plot. The show's lead actress Priyanka Chopra was heavily criticised by Twitterati, with many calling for a boycott of her work.…
A wealthy Indian American tech executive is currently on trial in a New York court for allegedly engaging in brutal non-consensual sex with a woman he met on a dating website. Sanjay Tripathy, a 48-year-old married man with two children, is charged with sex abuse, strangulation, and felony assault and…
BRITISH Asian SAJID Javid was named this morning (30) as Britain's new home secretary after Amber Rudd resigned from that post, having "inadvertently misled" parliament about deportation targets for illegal immigrants. Prime minister Theresa May's Downing Street office announced the appointment in a statement. Javid was previously Britain's communities minister.…
A Pakistani-American sculptor brings dark times, science fiction and a desire to provoke to New York's famed Metropolitan Museum of Art for this year's rooftop installation overlooking the Manhattan skyline. Huma Bhabha's We Come in Peace depicts a towering 12-foot (3.6-meter), five-headed figure weighing 1.5 tons and an 18-foot long…
The hunt is still on to nab celebrity jeweler Nirav Modi, who is accused by the Punjab National Bank for swindling over Rs. 11,300 crore. Indian authorities do not know where Modi is, but some television channels say the billionaire diamond trader is holed up in a swanky hotel in New York's Manhattan.…
A Pakistani national known as "the Sultan" in the global drug-trafficking network has been arrested in a major joint UK-US operation in London, authorities have announced. Muhammad Asif Hafeez, who was arrested in London's Regent's Park area, faces extradition to the US. Hafeez, 58, is alleged to be the head…
National treasure Sir Ben Kingsley has claimed that film makers will “step up to the plate” when there is a demand for more diversity in cinema. The Oscar-winning actor, who plays a Sikh taxi driver in New York in his latest movie Learning to Drive, told Eastern Eye that the…
Former top federal prosecutor Preet Bharara, fired by the Trump administration after he refused to quit, will join the prestigious New York University's law school as a distinguished scholar. The NYU School of Law announced on Tuesday (21) that 48-year-old Bharara will join the school as a "distinguished scholar in…
FBI Director James Comey confirmed for the first time admitted that the agency is investigating Russian interference in last year's presidential election and notably Moscow's possible collusion with president Donald Trump's campaign. He also rejected Trump's claim that predecessor Barack Obama wiretapped his Trump Tower in New York, saying both…
THE FBI is negotiating with a former branch manager of a Philippines bank for information relating to $81 million (£62.5 million) that she handled after it was stolen from the Bangladesh central bank’s account at the New York Federal Reserve, her lawyer said. Federal Bureau of Investigation officials have presented…
PROSECUTORS and New York’s top federal public defender argued on September 22 over when the suspect in the series of weekend bombings around the city and New Jersey will get a lawyer. Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, has been held in a Newark, New Jersey, hospital since he was arrested on…
A WEEKEND attack in which a man set fire to a veiled British woman’s clothing in Manhattan was not likely an Islamophobic attack, New York police said Wednesday (September 14). The incident took place late Saturday in front of a luxury boutique on 5th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The woman,…
The United Nations will honour the legacy of India’s Carnatic music legend MS Subbulakshmi next week with a stamp, coinciding with the celebrations of the country’s 70th Independence day. The UN Postal Administration will issue the stamp to mark Subbulakshmi’s birth centenary, India’s Permanent Mission to the UN said in…
THE FBI is negotiating with a former branch manager of a Philippines bank for information relating to $81 million (£62.5 million) that she handled after it was stolen from the Bangladesh central bank’s account at the New York Federal Reserve, her lawyer said. Federal Bureau of Investigation officials have presented…