Hindu communities across the UK are preparing to celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi, the festival marking the birth of Lord Ganesha, with temples, community groups and families organising prayers, cultural programmes and environmentally mindful immersion...
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15th Sep 2026 | Updated at 11:16am 15th Sep 2026
CM Sharma visits UK to usher investments into ‘Rising Rajasthan’
The Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, Deputy CM Diya Kumari with delegates visited London last week, to host an investor meet. The afternoon was organised by FICCI and High Commission of India at Taj 51 Buckingham Gate, and was attended...
Grant Thornton LLP kickstarts Diwali season in London
Grant Thornton LLP became the first to kickstart the Diwali season in London by organising a reception at the historic Long Room in the Lord’s Cricket Ground on 16 October, welcoming a brief spell of Indian summer as the backdrop of festivities....
“Labour party will reach out to the Hindu community in Leicester East to work with them”: Parliamentary candidate Rajesh Agrawal
The Indian diaspora and business communities in the UK are familiar with Rajesh Agrawal, the former Deputy Mayor of Business in London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s team. He transformed London into a leading investment hub for India, despite the Brexit...
CF India hosts fundraiser dinner in Brum
Conservative MP Dean Russell told attendees at a fundraising dinner in Birmingham, “When Labour see a problem, they exploit it. When we see a problem, we fix it”. The event was organised by Edgbaston Conservatives in partnership with Conservative...
Leading EdTech business launches franchise in the UK following recent global success
The British Youth International College (BYITC), the Glasgow-headquartered but globally operating educational technology (EdTech) business, has launched its successful franchise model in the UK.
University of Glasgow project investigating the effects of Covid-19
A project at the University of Glasgow that is aiming to better understand the effects that Covid-19 infection has on blood vessels and blood pressure has received a grant of £250,000 from national charity Heart Research UK.
770,000 people in England unable to speak English well
In an interview, the communities secretary, Sajid Javid revealed that 770,000 people living in England speak little or no English at all, and warned that up to 70% of them are women from the Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities.
Sigma sponsors transformation of Community Pharmacy 2025 vision
A donation from Sigma Pharmaceuticals plc is funding a three year PhD scholarship aimed at developing a coherent and transformative vision for English community pharmacy in 2025. The project has already begun in the Department of Pharmacy and...
The chief executive of the UK’s financial regulator has been accused of warning a consumer group of “adverse consequences” if it challenged a proposed £9.1 billion compensation scheme aimed at resolving the motor finance scandal.
Some questions do not disappear with grief. They stay, quietly returning in the middle of an ordinary day, in memories of a conversation, a missed call...
Former Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has formally taken his seat in the House of Lords, months after stepping down from the leadership of the party in Scotland.
More than 550 community, business and civic leaders from Britain and India gathered at the Oshwal Centre in Potters Bar for an evening centred on a powerful...
The head of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Dr Mohan Bhagwat, has arrived in the United Kingdom for the final leg of an international outreach marking the organisation’s centenary, with a packed programme of engagements bringing together...
Writing has never been easy. Franz Kafka described it as a process of “unending torments”, while George Orwell compared it to “a long bout of some painful...
A week of fatal violence, suspected gang retaliation and public disorder has exposed the mounting pressure on policing in and around Middlesbrough, with a small Cleveland force forced to call in hundreds of officers to contain the unrest.
British diplomat Tammy Sandhu MBE has made history after becoming the first woman from an ethnic minority background to serve as the UK’s ambassador to...
A women’s health and nutrition business whose founders were once laughed out of investor meetings has grown into a £42 million company, with ambitions...
