BRITAIN

Indian-origin billionaire brothers win bid to buy UK supermarket chain Asda

9:21 pm October 2, 2020

London: Indian-origin billionaire brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa are set to acquire a majority stake in the leading UK supermarket chain Asda from its US owner Walmart after a USD 8.8-billion deal was struck as part of a consortium involving private equity firm TDR Capital. The Issa brothers, whose parents moved to the UK from Gujarat in the 1970s, own the Euro Garages […]

UK judge refuses extradition of WikiLeaks founder Assange

Assange to hear judge’s verdict on US extradition on Jan 4

10:21 pm October 1, 2020

London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will likely have to spend another three months in a British prison cell before finding out whether he can be sent to the U.S. to face espionage charges, the judge in his extradition trial said Thursday. At the conclusion of nearly four weeks of evidence in his extradition hearing at a court in London‘s Old […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Indian diaspora groups in UK rally against new ‘fringe’ group on Kashmir

10:13 pm October 1, 2020

London: Indian diaspora organisations are rallying against a new “fringe” Conservative Party group on Kashmir and have issued letters to the ruling party headquarters, copies of which have also been sent to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel. The protest follows the revival of a so-called “Conservative Friends of Kashmir” group, announced on social media last week by seven […]

British PM forced to defend India travel ban timing over Delta variant in Parliament

Boris Johnson says UK at ‘critical moment’ in coronavirus fight

11:59 pm September 30, 2020

London: Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday said the UK is at a “critical moment” in its fight to control the spread of coronavirus, as a further 71 deaths took the country’s death toll from the deadly virus to 42,143. Addressing a briefing from 10 Downing Street in London, Johnson struck a sombre note as he called for “collective forbearance, common sense […]

Cambridge University academic makes history as first Indian-origin department head

11:36 pm September 30, 2020

London: An academic from Newnham College at the University of Cambridge, Dr Manali Desai, has made history as the first woman of Indian heritage to take over as the Head of the Sociology Department of the prestigious UK varsity in its over 800-year history. Desai, a Reader in Comparative and Historical Sociology and Fellow of Newnham College whose work focuses on social movements, […]