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From 10 Downing Street through the Palace of Westminster all the way to the High Street, Britain’s Indian and wider South Asian communities have long been courted and serviced by all segments of British society – from politics to fashion. But it appears that there is one area where British …

An Indian woman who was convicted in a bogus marriage scam and was deported from Britain has been allowed to return after the Court of Appeal ruled that preventing her from travelling to the UK was in breach of her right to family life. The 46-year-old mother, who cannot be …

An online campaign in Northern Ireland to buy a new car for an Indian mother targeted in a racist attack has raised more than £5000. Subi Philip, a 38-year-old nurse originally from South India, had her car torched in the attack in the early hours of 26 November at her …

A British-Bangladeshi woman who fled the Islamic State group with her five children after travelling to Syria described the experience as "not my cup of tea" in an interview on Wednesday.

Shukee Begum, 33, travelled to Syria with her children to find her husband Jamal al-Harith, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who left Britain 18 months ago to join the group, Channel 4 news reported.

A law graduate from northern England, Begum insists she only travelled to convince her husband to return and never supported the IS militants, who have carved out regions of control in Iraq and Syria.

"I was seeing on the news at this point that ISIS was going from bad to worse... So I decided that I was going to try and speak some sense into him," she told Channel 4 news, referring to Islamic State by an alternative name.

At first, Begum lived in a overcrowded safe house in the IS-controlled city of Raqqa with dozens of other women and children, many "crying" and "sick".

"There was a gangster kind of mentality among single women there. Violent talk, talking about war, killing," Begum said.

"They would sit together and huddle around their laptops and watch ISIS videos together and discuss them and everything. It was just not my cup of tea."

After she was reunited with her husband, who refused to help her leave, IS authorities would not allow her to go, Begum added.

"This is what I want to make clear as well to other women thinking of coming into ISIS territory -- that you can't just expect to come into ISIS territory and then expect that you can just leave again easily," Begum said.

"There is no personal autonomy there at all."

She was smuggled out of the territory before being held captive in the city of Aleppo, and is now living close to the border with Turkey and hopes to move back to Britain, Channel 4 reported.

Hundreds of Britons are thought to have travelled to join the IS group.

A report released last month indicated that dozens of fighters have defected from the group, which has become notorious for beheadings and blowing up ancient Syrian monuments, often due to disillusionment over killing fellow Sunni Muslims and civilians.

Nadiya Hussain, a British-Bangladeshi mom of three, has this evening been crowned winner of the British institution that is the Great British Bake Off.  The 30-year-old wowed judges with a lemon drizzle wedding cake in the final Bake Off – declaring that it would have been the cake she would …

A British Indian trader who is accused of causing the a trillion-dollar stock markets crash in the US in 2010 has been freed on bail after the conditions of his bail were changed by a court in London. Navinder Singh Sarao, 36, is sought by the US Department of Justice …

A young Sri Lankan mother killed her two sons and took her own life in a tragic murder-suicide that has shocked a quiet suburb in Northwest London. Police were called to an address in Harrow by the husband of the woman who arrived home on Thursday evening frmo his job …