Vidya shot Sherni before and during the pandemic. There was a gap of about six seven months after lockdown. What gave her the mental resilience to step...
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19th Jun 2021 | Updated at 05:21pm 19th Jun 2021
Sadiq Khan promises to bring Indian Premier League matches to London
Sadiq Khan has vowed to work hand-in-hand with cricketing authorities to make the Indian Premier League the latest global sports league to stage matches in London.
NHS and Tropical Sun start family ‘Heart to Heart’ about blood and organ donation
Britons are being encouraged to have a ‘heart to heart’ as part of a new campaign to get people from Black and Asian backgrounds talking about blood and organ donation.
Lord Woolley becomes the first Black man to head an Oxbridge college
A political and equalities activist has become the first black man to be elected head of an Oxbridge college. Lord Simon Woolley, founding director of campaign group Operation Black Vote, will be the newly elected principal of Cambridge University's...
New hijab trial designed by New Zealand first tried in Leicester
A new hijab designed in New Zealand especially for operational Muslim police officers is being trialled by Leicestershire Police in a first in England.
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.
Coalition to feed children and end starvation in Cowley Hill, Borehamwood
On 27th July, local partners announced a unique collaboration to provide nutritious midday meals to hundreds of children in Cowley Hill, Borehamwood, who are at risk of going hungry during these school summer holidays due to coronavirus.
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...
Faith Minister Lord Stephen Greenhalgh visited the Gurdwara Sahib in Leamington Spa last week, where he met members of the Gurdwara management committee...
The biopic on legendary Bengali actor, poet and theatre artist Soumitra Chatterjee, ‘Abhijaan’, by Parambrata Chatterjee will make a European premiere...
The first Annual General Meeting [AGM] of Charusat Education & Healthcare Trust (CEHT) UK took place at the DoubleTree by Hilton Marble Arch, London on Monday the 7th of June 2021.
Women in Travel CIC’s Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Programme and the University of Surrey’s School of Hospitality and Tourism Management have...
The BBC Asian Network is helping the South Asian community to understand what science says in five languages: Gujarati, Punjabi, Sylheti, Tamil and Urdu.
While men over 50 tend to suffer the most acute symptoms of coronavirus, women who get long Covid outnumber men by as much as four to one, The Guardian...
Samira Ahmed is the first female South Asian writer to tackle Marvel's premier Muslim superhero in a comic series. She plays Kamala Khan, the Muslim American...
Bina is a seasoned HR consultant who arrived in the UK as a refugee from Uganda in 1972. Bina’s mother, Indira, was the inspiration for ‘The Red Thread’....
