The Bank of England has issued a warning saying that the UK will fall into recession this year as it raised interest rates by the most in 27 years. The forecast hints that the last three months of the year will witness a shrink in the economy...
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17th Aug 2022 | Updated at 02:48pm 17th Aug 2022
Celebrating the South Asian heritage
As South Asian Heritage Month celebrates its 3rd year, the theme for 2022 is ‘Journeys of Empire’. The theme reflects on major anniversaries taking place this year: 75th anniversary of the independence of India, Partition, the creation of...
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan receives Sitara-i-Pakistan award
The High Commissioner of Pakistan to the UK, Moazzam Ahmad Khan, conferred the civil award on the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan on behalf of the President of Pakistan. Felicitating the Mayor, the High Commissioner underlined that conferment of...
'Har Ghar Tiranga' campaign generates business of £50 mn
As India celebrated its 75th year of independence on August 15, 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for "Har Ghar Tiranga" was widely adopted by the countrymen. Sale of more than 300 million national flags this year generated about £50...
Freedom fighters’ kin share untold stories of struggle
Revolutionary leader Kanailal Dutta of the Jugantar group was hanged on November 10, 1908, for the assassination of British approver Naren Goswami in the Alipore Central Jail’s hospital. A day before the hanging, his brother, Ashutosh, had requested...
Rushdie off ventilator, able to talk
- 17 Aug 2022
New York: Salman Rushdie, the acclaimed author who was hospitalised last week with serious injuries after being repeatedly stabbed at a public appearance in New York state, is off a ventilator and his condition is improving, his agent, Andrew...
Lanka allows entry for Chinese ship despite India's concerns
- 17 Aug 2022
Colombo: Sri Lanka's government granted permission for a controversial Chinese research vessel to visit the island despite neighbouring India's concerns that it could spy on New Delhi's military installations, officials said.
In a recent upbeat interview with The Times, Rishi Sunak talks about his life in politics and before that; about his kids and his wife and about his early...
Swati Dhingra is an Associate Professor in Economics at the London School of Economics, and an Associate of the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE....
“I come from a very humble background. So I started by raising money from my neighbour,” filmmaker Guneet Monga told Asian Voice. Monga’s neighbour Kamlesh...
Lord Karan Bilimoria hails from the third generation of his family to be educated in the UK from India. “On both sides, both my grandpa's grandfather studied...
Women have, for ages, fought to shine in a world where men are the central characters. Even when we look back to less than 100 years ago, women all around...
Ten days of Ashara Mubaraka created history in London with the huge international gathering of the Dawoodi Bohra Community. His Holiness Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin Saheb encouraged the community to contribute positively to the countries we live...
The British Asian Trust has announced a national commemorative event marking the 50th anniversary of the arrival of British Asians from Uganda in the United Kingdom (UK) will be held on Sunday 18 September 2022 at The Guildhall in London. The...
Britain’s oldest established Muslim organisation The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community held its Jalsa Salana, an Annual Convention, from 5 to 7 August in Hampshire....
