Leading playwrights to contribute to auction supporting refugees

Leading UK playwrights Tanika Gupta and Anupama Chandrasekhar are making a significant contribution by donating first editions of their work to an historic auction aimed at raising funds to support refugees in the UK.

“Enterprise and hard work at the heart of the immigrant story”

As the Labour party prepares for next year's general election, with leader Sir Keir Starmer currently reshuffling the Cabinet, they celebrated ‘Britain’s global bonds and bridges’ at an evening reception for the diaspora in a café in South London. 

“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...

A taxi driver from Birmingham has been cleared of sexually assaulting a female passenger and locking her in his car. Muhammad Naeem was found not guilty of sexual assault and false imprisonment following a trial by a jury at the city’s crown...

Samskrita Bharati UK conducted their 11th annual three day residential Samskrita Conversation Camp/workshop from 30th March to 1st April 2018 over the long Easter weekend period at Beaumanor Hall in Leicestershire for the spread and reach of...

Shrimati Shantaben Gulabbhai Desai, the mother of Shri Sumantbhai and Sri Amrutbhai Desai and mother-in-law of Kanti Nagada, sadly passed away after a short illness, on 6th April 2018, at the age of 96.

A schoolboy who achieved the highest score possible on the Mensa test said he felt ‘very blessed’ to have done so well. Advik Balaji, who is 11-years-old from South Harrow, took the two-hour test on March 25 and achieved 162, the highest possible...



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