The Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has graduated from Oxford University nine years after she was shot by the Taliban. She finished her course...
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1st Dec 2021 | Updated at 03:54pm 1st Dec 2021
'Pitruvandana' - a virtual tribute to all Fathers
Fathers are the solid foundation of our lives. They are the strength we rely on as we take our first step in the world. Fathers can be tender, tough, fragile or powerful but they are probably the most uncomplicated love we will ever know. Father’s...
Sadiq Khan promises to bring Indian Premier League matches to London
Sadiq Khan has vowed to work hand-in-hand with cricketing authorities to make the Indian Premier League the latest global sports league to stage matches in London.
Lord Woolley becomes the first Black man to head an Oxbridge college
A political and equalities activist has become the first black man to be elected head of an Oxbridge college. Lord Simon Woolley, founding director of campaign group Operation Black Vote, will be the newly elected principal of Cambridge University's...
New hijab trial designed by New Zealand first tried in Leicester
A new hijab designed in New Zealand especially for operational Muslim police officers is being trialled by Leicestershire Police in a first in England.
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.
Coalition to feed children and end starvation in Cowley Hill, Borehamwood
On 27th July, local partners announced a unique collaboration to provide nutritious midday meals to hundreds of children in Cowley Hill, Borehamwood, who are at risk of going hungry during these school summer holidays due to coronavirus.
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...
New research published by the Institute for Employment Studies details the struggle that young jobseekers are facing in the post-lockdown labour market. Young people were among the hardest hit groups in the Covid-19 crisis, seeing the largest...
Anti-racist campaigners have responded to today's testimony by Azeem Rafiq at a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee by demanding action on institutional racism across society, as well as in cricket and sport.
In a tragic incident NHS doctor Dr Irfan Halim, 45, died of Covid just days away from his boosters coming in. The doctor had spent months away from his...
We’re all aware of the institutional racism that GPs and healthcare workers of colour underwent during the Covid-19 pandemic. But, in a commendable yet unnerving move, Health Secretary Sajid Javid has ordered a racial bias review for Covid deaths...
Zaffrin O’Sullivan, is the co-founder of Five Dot Botanics, an eco-friendly, gender-neutral, minimalist vegan beauty brand available online, on Amazon...
6-year-old Vidyut is on a quest to help his classmate and friend, Sophie, by running six kilometres in six consecutive weeks to raise funds for Sophie’s...
The report ‘The Future of Multi-ethnic Britain’ back in the year 2000, stated: “The history of a nation often has a tendency to be written in an exclusive...
“Today, I beg the forgiveness of my countrymen and say with a pure heart and honest mind that perhaps there was some shortcoming,” said, Indian Prime Minister...
The number of women set to work their entire careers without ever seeing equal pay has risen to over ten million – up from 8.5 million a year ago – new research by the Labour Party can reveal.
