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CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

2 Indian-origin experts on UK PM’s new race commission

7:51 pm July 16, 2020

London: An Indian-origin professor of surgery and a mediaperson are among the members of a new Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, which will look at inequalities within UK society in areas such as health, education and criminal justice, 10 Downing Street in London said on Thursday. Lord Ajay Kakkar, Professor of Surgery at University College London (UCL), Director of the Thrombosis Research Institute, chair […]

COVID-19: 100-pound fine for failure to wear face masks in England shops from Jul 24

8:56 pm July 14, 2020

London: Ending days of speculation, the UK government on Tuesday declared that wearing a face mask or face covering will become mandatory in shops across England from July 24 and a fine of up to 100 pounds would be imposed on those not complying with the rule as the country eases out of the coronavirus lockdown. The enforcement powers […]

Indian newspapers from 1966 recovered from melting French glacier

11:55 pm July 13, 2020

London: Indian newspaper copies with headlines such as “India’s First Woman Prime Minister”, referring to Indira Gandhi’s election win in 1966, have been recovered from the melting French glacier of Bossons on the Mont Blanc mountain range in western Europe, 54 years after an Air India plane crashed there. The newspapers belong to the residue of an Air India plane that crashed into Europe’s […]

Rishi Sunak offers furlough bonus, dine-out discounts to save jobs

8:54 pm July 8, 2020

London: UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak on Wednesday announced a ‘mini-budget’ that includes a bonus scheme for employers who bring furloughed or forced leave staff back to work as part of a major drive to save jobs hit by the coronavirus pandemic shutdown. As part of his Summer Economic Update in Parliament, dubbed a mini-Budget, […]

Nirav Modi faces suicide risk, politically biased trial in India, UK court told

Nirav’s assets worth Rs 329 cr first in nation to be confiscated under fugitive eco offenders law

8:24 pm July 8, 2020

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday said it has confiscated assets worth Rs 329.66 crore of diamond merchant Nirav Modi under the fugitive economic offenders law. This is the first confiscation of assets order issued under the law that was brought by the Modi government in 2018 with an aim to deter economic offenders from evading the […]