A Conservative councillor in Brent has died suddenly while on holiday in India.
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2nd May 2026 | Updated at 07:41am 2nd May 2026
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...
The owner of a newsagent in Cricklewood who dumped his rubbish in a busy thoroughfare has been fined for fly-tipping
A businessman has appeared in court to admit a half a million pound VAT fraud. Bulbinder Singh Sandhu, 51, pleaded guilty to an offence of furnishing VAT returns with intent to deceive, knowing they were false in a material particular, namely...
A coroner ruled the death of new-born baby at the Royal Oldham Hospital following a rare complication at birth was unavoidable.
A disgruntled man told a former lover that if she did not drop a harassment charge against him he would put sexually explicit videos and pictures of her on Facebook.
Two brothers are due to appear at Birmingham Magistrates Court charged with the murder of Sameena Imam.
A part time supermarket worker’s hand had to be amputated after it got stuck in a faulty meat slicer. And Ash Food Fair on Witton Road in Aston began using the machine an hour after the accident – having washed it down with Fairy Liquid and...
Two friends killed in a car crash in Hastings Road at the weekend have been named locally as Ammar Shah and Abz Patel.
An American TV ‘expert’ has been forced to apologise for remarks where he labelled Birmingham as a “Muslim-only” city on a primetime US network show watched by millions of viewers.
Scientists have discovered the first new antibiotic in nearly 30 years that can kill serious infections without encountering any detectable resistance, giving hope in the fight against evolving drug-resistant superbugs.
