The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), an executive agency of the Department for Transport, has promised to launch an urgent probe over absenteeism claims that has developed at the Swansea-based executive agency since the beginning...
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19th Dec 2025 | Updated at 07:21am 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...
According to an analysis by the Royal Society of Chemistry, black chemists are less likely to progress in academia and even if they do, many of them don't receive funds. The report further states that almost 5 per cent of undergraduate chemists...
Bhoniefas Rexson, 19, a teenage rapper and a convicted gang member has been jailed for 14 years for stabbing a gang rival Gedeon Ngwendema, 21,to death at Brent Cross Shopping Centre.
Dentist Sumit Aggarwal has been ordered to pay £137,000 in damages and costs for needlessly pulling out three teeth while trying to repair the chipped tooth of Lindsey Harris who bled for three days.
The 95-year-old Monarch recently confessed that she “couldn’t move” last month and was recently pictured with a walking stick, raising concern about her health. The Queen tested positive for Coronavirus on February 20, just days after Prince...
In the UK, free-range eggs will no longer be available for the consumers as birds have not been allowed outdoors since November due to fears of avain flu outbreaks.
As per the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, Covid-19 admissions to hospitals across England have gone up by 26 per cent.
In an interview to mark two years since the first lockdown, Professor Roger Kirby, president of the Royal Society of Medicine, said if ministers try to impose another lockdown the public would not tolerate being deprived of their liberty on...
The gang riding e-bicycles ambushed the victim, a man in his 20s, when he was leaving a hotel in Stratton Street, Mayfair at 7.30pm on November 21 in 2020.
Suffolk Police were called at around 8.15pm after reports that a man had attacked a person with an axe.
