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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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
News in Brief
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India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai received the Nobel Peace Prize 2014 jointly for their work on promoting child rights in the troubled...
A stony-faced Dewani made his way back to Britain last Wed 10th, after being held at the Valkenberg psychiatric institute in Cape Town since April of this...
Baroness Shriti Vadera, who has served as life Peer and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, was awarded chair position at Santander UK. Making national history, she is the first woman to head a major British bank, reflecting not just a step...
64th Nirvana Day of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was organised by Sardar Patel Memorial Society (SPMS) UK at Kadawa Patidar Centre, Harrow on Sunday 14th December 2014 to pay tribute and celebrate the legacy of the Iron Man of India.
A father has paid tribute to his 'amazing' son after he died from a football injury.Sugenth Jeyakumar, 14, was hit by a football in the stomach by a goal keeper during a PE lesson at his North London school. He was admitted to hospital and died...
UK's richest and multi-billionaire Hinduja brothers have recently acquired Winston Churchill's Old War office in Central London, one of the capital’s most iconic properties. The building which has more than 1,000 rooms and two-and-a-half miles...
Mumbai is one of the largest cities in the world and a place of great importance to India and the British Indian population. Why then, has the staggering decision been made by the government to downsize and downgrade the visa operation there?
Mrs Trupti Patel becomes the first Hindu woman in the UK to be appointed President of the largest national Hindu organisation – The Hindu Forum of Britain (HFB).