After more than seventy years on the high street Co-operative Pharmacy are set to be rebranded and renamed as 'Well' following a £620 million buyout by the Bestway Group.
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25th Apr 2024 | Updated at 06:08pm 25th Apr 2024
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.
“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...
Hemel Hempstead Liberal Democrats have selected business consultant and human rights campaigner Rabi Martins to challenge Mike Penning in the forthcoming General Election.
The latest Amitabh Bachchan and Dhanush starrer Shamitabh is currently the talk of the Bollywood town. The film is about a boy from a small village who becomes a superstar with the help of an alcoholic's deep baritone voice. The story is about...
On January the 31st the Sikh Federation UK launched the Sikh Manifesto for the 2015 election campaign. The ten point proposition included requests and demands that the organisation feels are of central importance to the Sikh community in the...
On January the 31st the Sikh Federation UK launched the Sikh Manifesto for the 2015 election campaign. The ten point proposition included requests and demands that the organisation feels are of central importance to the Sikh community in the...
On 3rd February, the glamorous British Asian Trust Annual Dinner was held at Whitehall, Westminster. Along with the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, many celebrities and renown and respected figures attended, such as the Bollywood...
Shuchita Sonalika has recently taken over as Director of UK operations at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). She is responsible for managing initiatives that promote India-UK economic relations by way of business conferences and programs,...
Former international model Waris Dirie who has featured on advertisements for the likes of Chanel and Vogue was last week awarded the Liberal International Prize for Freedom in recognition of her campaign to bring an end to female genital mutilation...
The BAPS Charities Annual Challenge for 2015 was launched on the evening of Saturday 31 January at BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Neasden, London. The official partner for BAPS Charities this year is the British Heart Foundation (BHF), the...
For a modern Hindu, Hinduism represents different things, which probably distinguishes this very ancient and oldest of religions. Being such an old religion, it clearly has undergone changes and erosion just like a solid rock coastline gets...
