It goes without saying that Asians have an integral part in the contemporary British society, and with the number of Asian MPs candidates preparing to be a part of the 2015 elections in May, it only reiterates the importance Asians have, especially...
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29th Nov 2024 | Updated at 09:34am 29th Nov 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....
“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 dealership owner who advertised a dangerous vehicle as an ‘ideal first car’ and sold it to a deaf customer has now been asked to pay nearly £7,000.
Police has tracked down a bungling armed robber, after staff at a branch of Ladbrokes reported a man ploughing hundreds of pounds into gaming machines, with notes stained with dye.
A leading Leicester businessman has submitted a planning application to renovate the grade-II listed Braunstone Hall and build a cafe in the surrounding park. The Leicester civic society has welcomed the plans to convert this run down 18th century...
A major three-day festival to mark the installation of ten life-size Hindu deities at a temple in Leicester brought together hundreds of worshippers from all over the country.
A taxi driver has been jailed for 12 years for raping a teenager. Nasir Uddin, earlier this year was found guilty by a jury of one rape, two counts of attempted rape and four sexual assaults against the girl, who was aged under 16 when the abuse...
Mustac Abdulkadir, a former restaurant manager from Leicester has been fined after inspectors found rat droppings, a live mouse and other food safety breaches at Blue Peters Spice restaurant, in Law Street, Belgrave.
The 150th birth anniversary of Shastriji Maharaj was celebrated on a grand scale in Vadodara, Gujarat on 24th January 2015 in the presence of senior sadhus...
.Vice-Admiral Rustom Ghandhi, the Indian naval officer who was an aide-de-camp to Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India, died on December 23, 2014,...
.India's Sahara group chairman Subrata Roy has struck a deal to mortgage London’s Grosvenor House Hotel and and New York’s Plaza hotel
