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The conviction of Vickrum Digwa for the murder of 18-year-old University of Southampton student Henry Nowak has sparked widespread debate about public safety, policing, accountability, and the misuse of religious and racial narratives in criminal investigations. On 28 May 2026, a jury at Southampton Crown Court found Digwa guilty of …

In a proud moment for the Indian community in the United Kingdom, a young leader of Indian origin has made history by becoming the youngest ever Indian-origin mayor in UK history. The achievement is not just a personal milestone, but also a reflection of how young voices are beginning to …

A tweet circulating sums up the mood around the latest controversy engulfing the Conservative Party: “TODAY’S TORY CORRUPTION Tory donor suspended from the party after being accused of bullying and inappropriate language, spent £50,000 last week to have dinner with Bad Badenoch.” It’s punchy, a bit tongue-in-cheek and it points …

Immigrants should have to wait at least 15 years before they become eligible for British citizenship, the Conservatives have said. Arguing that citizenship should only go to people who have shown “a real commitment” to Britain, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch urged the Government to make it harder for immigrants to …

S adiq Khan the mayor of London has been honoured with a knighthood in the New Year Honours list. Khan said he was “truly humbled” to have been made a knight. It’s the honour of my life to serve the city I love” “I couldn’t have dreamed when growing up …

India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic reform program and a landmark nuclear deal with the United States, has died. He was 92. Singh was admitted to New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences late Thursday after his health deteriorated due to …

The prominent Tory donor Lord Rami Ranger has been told to forfeit his CBE by King Charles over the British-Asian peer’s harassment of a journalist and making derogatory comments about other groups within his own community. An announcement on Friday in the London Gazette, which publishes the government’s statutory notices, …

The well-known British Asian peer and Tory donor Rami Ranger has been asked to apologize and attend a behavioural course after he was found by the House of Lords Standards Commissioner to have bullied and harassed the London-based female journalist Poonam Joshi. The Standards Commissioner Akbar Khan KC, in a …

It was a moment that will feature in television archives and history books for years to come, just as Neville Chamberlain’s proclamation in September 1938 of “Peace in our Time” following his Munich meeting with Hitler has done. The much-jowled Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, addresses an audience in the …

Here’s the thing.  I’m a girl from Delhi and I don’t suffer fools.  I have very little time for people who strut around showing off their baubles and, my biggest bugbear of all is those in power looking down their noses at ordinary people. So it’s been a bizarre and …