The award-winning British Indian photographer Souvid Datta has admitted to photoshopping images and using copyrighted material of other photographers after a furore about a photo story on  Calcutta’s red light district. Datta, a widely-hailed talent who has won countless awards and worked for the likes of The Guardian, was forced …

He may be the subject of worship from London’s Parliament Square to the Oval Office in Washington DC, but Winston Churchill was little more than a mass murderer, with as much blood on his hands as Hitler does. That’s according to the Indian politician and author Shashi Tharoor, whose new …

Filmmaker Karan Johar has become a single father to twins, the superstar Bollywood director announced on Saturday. The twins – a boy and a girl – were born last month to a surrogate mother at Mumbai’s Masrani Hospital, where actor Shah Rukh Khan’s surrogate baby Abram was also born. “I …

The well known London-based socialite and fashion designer Neishaa Gharat has been placed in police custody in New Delhi over an alleged multi-million pound fraud perpetrated involving her and members of her family. Mrs Gharat – who runs the ‘House of Gharats’ design consultancy – was arrested by police at …

One of the most critically acclaimed and versatile actor in Bollywood and across the world, Om Puri, has taken his last breath in Mumbai today morning. He was 66 years old. His cause of death has been reported as a heart attack. In his long film career, starting with Marathi …

A group of Indian students who allege they have been left out of pocket to the tune of tens of thousands of pounds after being defrauded by a West London immigration advisor staged a silent protest outside the man’s residence on Sunday (31 January) as new details emerged of the case …

They are the words that any first generation migrant dreads: “Your application for further leave to remain in the UK has been refused under paragraph…”, the Home Office letter, dated 16 October, states. Despite being just words on a piece of paper, there’s an ominous ring to such correspondence – …

A well-known Bangladeshi American blogger has been hacked to death in Dhaka. Atheist writer Avijit Roy, founder of Mukto-Mona (Free-mind) blog, was attacked as he was returning from a book fair in the Bangladeshi capital on Thursday afternoon. The couple was dragged from a taxi before being hacked with machetes.  …

A UKIP activist is facing a party inquiry after his home town of Leicester was a “shit-hole” full of “Pakis”. Richard Crouch, Secretary for the South Leicestershire branch of the UK Independence Party, posted the message along with a string of other racist posts on his Facebook page. The full …

A 14-year-old girl is midway through her school exams when she is taken out of school. Little do her friends know, she has been transported abroad to marry a man she has never met, a man to whom she has been perhaps “promised to” since she was born. Her friends, …