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...
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19th Dec 2025 | Updated at 08:33am 19th Dec 2025
CM Sharma visits UK to usher investments into ‘Rising Rajasthan’
The Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, Deputy CM Diya Kumari with delegates visited London last week, to host an investor meet. The afternoon was organised by FICCI and High Commission of India at Taj 51 Buckingham Gate, and was attended...
Grant Thornton LLP kickstarts Diwali season in London
Grant Thornton LLP became the first to kickstart the Diwali season in London by organising a reception at the historic Long Room in the Lord’s Cricket Ground on 16 October, welcoming a brief spell of Indian summer as the backdrop of festivities....
“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...
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...
10 years old, Dushyant Mehta who saved his older sister Devaanshi's life when he was 2, by donating his bone marrow, now needs a match to save his own life.
Antonio Boparan, son of millionaire Ranjit and Baljinder Boparan who own the 2 Sisters Food Group with a wealth of £800 million is facing jail for a second time over his involvement in a bar brawl that left a man blinded. Previously he had already...
A group of passengers from Birmingham were left stranded at Birmingham airport for nearly 48 hours. They were due to fly to India on Friday night but discovered their flight had been indefinitely delayed due to a technical fault -and then eventually...
A 6 years old grand daughter has saved the life of her nan Jasy Tailor, after she fell into a diabetic coma. In pitch darkness, little Millie Desai, from Solihull, fumbled for the phone and rang her mum.
