Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai chose Kolkata for the treatment of a close friend who was suffering from a heart ailment.
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29th Nov 2023 | Updated at 09:35am 29th Nov 2023
Leading playwrights to contribute to auction supporting refugees
Leading UK playwrights Tanika Gupta and Anupama Chandrasekhar are making a significant contribution by donating first editions of their work to an historic auction aimed at raising funds to support refugees in the UK.
“Enterprise and hard work at the heart of the immigrant story”
As the Labour party prepares for next year's general election, with leader Sir Keir Starmer currently reshuffling the Cabinet, they celebrated ‘Britain’s global bonds and bridges’ at an evening reception for the diaspora in a café in South London.
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...
Uganda fundraiser event in Leicester
A fundraiser event in Leicester next month to mark the 50th anniversary of the Ugandan exodus is expected to bring together scores of people from home and abroad.
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...
Should you invest in India? You want to do good by the beloved country of your forefathers after all. If so how? I wrote a piece about investing in India and Dinesh Dhamija of eBookers commented how hard he found it to invest there (that’s putting...
This week I want to focus on an issue which very rarely comes into play. Our client incurred a Civil Penalty which they strongly believe is wrong and accordingly the only solution is to lodge an appeal against the decision. Appeals of this nature...
As many as 100 teachers and assistants from schools across Britain are all set to get the sack for trying to propagate extremist Islamist views through both the curriculum and the way schools were run.
North Yorkshire Police have said there is "no need for further action" against Jeremy Clarkson following an inquiry into the Top Gear "fracas".
The NHS in England has missed its four-hour A&E wait target for the past three months with performance dropping to its lowest level for a decade.
A 15-year-old Indian-origin schoolboy in the UK has been awarded the Institute of Physics Prize for conducting an experiment that verified an effect of Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity.
Christians will be a minority in the UK by the middle of this century amid surging growth in atheism and Islam, an authoritative new study charting the future of the world’s religions predicts.
Police have been granted more time to question five men from Birmingham and a woman who were arrested in Dover on suspicion of Syria-related terrorism offences.
A Birmingham taxi driver has narrowly escaped prison for trying to deceive officers over a speeding ticket.
