British taxpayers paid £250,000 to send Shrien Dewani to South Africa where his murder trial collapsed before he even started his defence.
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13th Oct 2024 | Updated at 04:49pm 13th Oct 2024
Decades of change: India’s art odyssey at the Barbican
Starting October 5, the Barbican will showcase ‘The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998’, the world’s first exhibition to explore and chart a transformative period in Indian cultural and political history.
Immigrants grapple with renewed hostility
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Pan-London Hate Crime Scrutiny Panel convened an extraordinary meeting last week to unite against hate crime and public disorder in the capital.
“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...
A charity director made an OBE in the New Year’s Honours list said she is “flattered” to receive the honour.
The national airline of Saudi Arabia which flies from Manchester could be set to segregate sexes on board its flights amid claims men have lodged complaints about male strangers sitting next to their wives.
The Hindu community worldwide has expressed urgent need for a Hindu temple in Oxford.
Two young children were seized from their mother by counterterrorism officers in the first intervention of its kind involving suspected jihadists returning to Britain from Syria.
It has now been six months since Shri Narendrabhai Modi became Prime Minister of India. What he has done in these few months is nothing short of remarkable. Did you know that there is a code that PM Modi has shared with all of us, but not...
A Leicester professor who has dedicated his career to heart disease research has been knighted in the New Year Honours.
Police have launched an investigation after a man's body was found in an alleyway Monday.
The General Election may be some five months away but judging by the opening salvos from David Cameron and Ed Millband the voting public is going to be subjected to relentless claims and counter claims that the other Party cannot be trusted...
A man caught with a fraudulently obtained passport and driving licence, to help secure residence in the UK, has been jailed for two months.
