The biggest ever Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) gets underway in London this week and no leader will have a more significant impact or more rapturous a welcome than the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Thousands of Indians from right across the British Isles – members of what …

“Grim”, “Thick” and “Naïve”: just three of the words that have been used to describe the former International Development Secretary Priti Patel, who was forced to resign this week after having unauthorized meetings with Israeli government officials during holidays to Israel in August and September. For me, “opportunistic” and “hypocritical” …

My 11-year-old swirls his head around as it begins, like a startled fawn down a country road.  The reason’s not the car headlights but the opening notes of the song of 2017, the catchy opening tinkles of Ed Sheeran’s infectious ‘Shape of You’. But then, just like the realization in …

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 abduction of children by a parent is a very real nightmare for scores of parents and one which all too many Indian mothers – and in some cases fathers – are acutely aware. The combination of a deeply patriarchal society and India’s unwillingness to sign up to the Hague …

  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 …

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 …

Popular Bollywood couple Kareena Kapoor Khan and Saif Ali Khan say they have been blessed with a baby boy and in keeping with the status of his parents in India, little Taimur Ali Khan Pataudi is already making waves. The couple announced the birth in a statement on Tuesday. “We …

Considerable attention has been directed at the plight of EU immigrants living in the UK following the Brexit vote, not least their role as “bargaining chips” in Britain’s forthcoming exit negotiations from the EU. Less attention has been paid to the government’s ongoing discriminatory immigration policies against its own citizens. …

Data from the last census show that in 2011, only 67% of urban households and 54% rural households had access to mainstream financial services. Getting the remaining households access to banking services is a process known as financial inclusion. In the context of banning bank notes, financial inclusion is crucial. …