If you thought Diwali and Holi are the only Indian festivals celebrated in a grand- scale in London, then you have gotten it wrong. Regional festivals of India are slowly making their significance felt in and around London, with more and more...
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23rd Dec 2024 | Updated at 08:33am 23rd Dec 2024
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....
On Sunday, 18th January, people from all over London and around joined the Peace Walk organised by Kashmiri Pandits Cultural Society, UK in large numbers including several Kashmiri Hindu families, most of who have been direct victims of the...
On 14th January, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) and King's College London announced that Dr S Y Quraishi, India's former Chief Election Commissioner would become the 2015 Visiting Fellow at the prestigious India...
A Sikh lawyer has won a discrimination claim against Britain's Ministry of Justice. Amrik Bilkhu, a criminal defence lawyer was barred seeing a client at Belmarsh prison in South London in October 2013 because of the four pins holding his turban...
Recent figures show there will be a population growth of over half a million in rural areas. The Office for National Statistics predicted a 6% increase...
London: Britain's intelligence agency is harnessing the minds of more than 100 dyslexic and dyspraxic spies to combat terrorism and foreign espionage. Using their ability to analyse complex information in a “dispassionate, logical and analytical”...
London: Middle-aged people will be screened by doctors for their risk of dementia and told how their “brain age” compares to their biological age, under new plans to “scare” people into adopting healthier lifestyles. It means a man of 40 could...
London: A new research shows that the birth of the first and the second child briefly increases the level of their parents' happiness, but a third does not. A new study by the London School of Economics and Political Science and Western University,...
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India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai received the Nobel Peace Prize 2014 jointly for their work on promoting child rights in the troubled...
