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20th Apr 2019 | Updated at 12:06am 20th Apr 2019
Brexit Halloween nightmare and local council elections
More than 8,000 local councillors across England are going to be elected to 248 councils on 2 May. These include 33 metropolitan districts except Birmingham, Doncaster and Rotherham, 47 unitary authorities, 179 districts (mostly rural). Additionally,...
A stain on Wembley’s streets
People who spit paan on the streets of Wembley faced a rude awakening this weekend. Local volunteers, together with councillors, launched a campaign with two days of action to tackle the problem of paan spitting in the area.
Birmingham witnesses landmark India-UK healthcare conference
Birmingham, in the heart of Britain, saw an unprecedented ensemble of over 120 key healthcare experts from India and UK, converge at the renowned ‘Queen Elizabeth Hospital’ to discuss the potential areas of collaboration and identify effective...
LGBT lessons temporarily suspended in school
Parkfield Community School in Saltley, Birmingham which ran educative sessions on LGBT rights as part of a programme to challenge homophobia has suspended these lessons indefinitely until a resolution is reached with protesting parents.Andrew...
Jet Airways’ Manchester-Mumbai set to bring £400m to northern economy
Jet Airways’ first ever non-stop flight connecting Mumbai, India’s economic capital, and Manchester is now operating. Launched on Dhan Teras (Nov 5) - the most auspicious day for businesses, and second day of Diwali, in the Hindu calendar -...
Manchester airport delivers major boost to north with new Mumbai connection
Jet Airways’ five-times-a-week service from Manchester to Mumbai took for the first time this morning, at a celebration attended by Aviation Minister, Baroness Liz Sugg and hundreds of guests from across the region.
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 Hackney carriage driver who was caught driving on the pavement on two separate occasions has had his taxi licence revoked.
As the centenary of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre approaches, UK government has failed to use the opportunity of a parliamentary debate in the Westminster...
Ratan Devi went to the Jallianwala Bagh looking for her husband in the dead hours of the evening in 1919 after hearing about Sir Brigadier General Reginald...
A century ago Udham Singh had vowed to shoot General Dyer following the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and eventually assassinated Sir Michael O'Dwyer who had...
Results from Bridge India’s first annual diaspora survey show that NRIs and OCIs in the UK would overwhelmingly vote for the BJP if they had the right to vote in Indian elections starting this week.
Are you a budding entrepreneur, looking to start a FinTech business in London? Who better to guide you than Subhash R Ghosh, the man who began his career with Vodafone India (formerly known as Usha Martin Telecom). Founder and owner of Lemon...
The future of the Indian citizens from Goa who have recently arrived on Portuguese passports to the UK remains in a “limbo” amidst the on-going Brexit negotiations.Over the last five years tens of thousands of Indians have settled in Britain...
On Thursday, 28 March, the South Asia Centre of the London School of Economics (LSE) organised a roundtable discussion that debated the concept of “South Asia” as taught in universities, and schools.The discussion was held in the presence of...
Over two thirds (69%) of men in the UK aged between 18-34 don’t know that they are in the age group most at risk of getting testicular cancer, according to new research from leading global men’s health charity, the Movember Foundation.Testicular...
