A care worker who travelled from India to the UK on a Skilled Worker visa has been awarded almost £30,000 by an employment tribunal after spending months without work despite being recruited for a full-time role. Shabin Shaji moved from Kerala to Stafford in 2023 after receiving sponsorship from Swan …
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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 …
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In the leafy heart of New Delhi, behind old trees and colonial-era walls, sits one of India’s most exclusive institutions: the Delhi Gymkhana Club. For decades, it has symbolised privilege, influence and access, a gathering place for diplomats, senior bureaucrats, military officers, industrialists and political elites. Now, the club has …
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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 …
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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 …
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The journalist and women’s rights campaigner Poonam Joshi has been honoured with the “Shakti” award at the annual Proud Indian Women Shakti Sangamam Shakti Awards held in Manchester. The ceremony is organized by the eponymous Shakti Sangamam, a Manchester-based group that empowers British Asian women of Indian origin through education, …
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Baroness Catherine Meyer, a Conservative party peer, is facing a three week suspension from the House of lords for calling her Liberal Democrat colleague Lord Navnit Dholakia as “Lord Poppadom” and touching an MP’s braids without consent. Catherine Meyer was found to have breached harassment rules in her interactions with …
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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 …
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Since late August, the city of Leicester in England has seen violent confrontations between groups of Hindu and Muslim men. The situation escalated on September 17 when about 200 Hindu men marched through a Muslim-majority area of east Leicester. Wearing masks, hoodies and balaclavas, they chanted “Jai Shri Ram” (meaning …
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A British-Asian businessman from London was fleeced out of millions in a scam involving his own relatives, including a UK-based couple well known among British Asian society circles, according to a complaint filed in Mumbai. Harrow-based business tycoon Rajesh Tailor, 55, alleges that he has been swindled out of funds …
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