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S adiq Khan the mayor of London has been honoured with a knighthood in the New Year Honours list. Khan said he was “truly humbled” to have been made a knight. It’s the honour of my life to serve the city I love” “I couldn’t have dreamed when growing up …

India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic reform program and a landmark nuclear deal with the United States, has died. He was 92. Singh was admitted to New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences late Thursday after his health deteriorated due to …

The prominent Tory donor Lord Rami Ranger has been told to forfeit his CBE by King Charles over the British-Asian peer’s harassment of a journalist and making derogatory comments about other groups within his own community. An announcement on Friday in the London Gazette, which publishes the government’s statutory notices, …

The well-known British Asian peer and Tory donor Rami Ranger has been asked to apologize and attend a behavioural course after he was found by the House of Lords Standards Commissioner to have bullied and harassed the London-based female journalist Poonam Joshi. The Standards Commissioner Akbar Khan KC, in a …

It was a moment that will feature in television archives and history books for years to come, just as Neville Chamberlain’s proclamation in September 1938 of “Peace in our Time” following his Munich meeting with Hitler has done. The much-jowled Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, addresses an audience in the …

Here’s the thing.  I’m a girl from Delhi and I don’t suffer fools.  I have very little time for people who strut around showing off their baubles and, my biggest bugbear of all is those in power looking down their noses at ordinary people. So it’s been a bizarre and …

Britain’s new Home Secretary Suella Braverman has warned against signing a free trade deal with India, saying that it would lead to a huge increase in immigration. Ms Braverman, the daughter of Indian-origin migrants from Mauritius and Kenya and an arch Brexiteer who has championed free trade with economies like …

A British-Asian businessman from London was fleeced out of millions in a scam involving his own relatives, including a UK-based couple well known among British Asian society circles, according to a complaint filed in Mumbai. Harrow-based business tycoon Rajesh Tailor, 55, alleges that he has been swindled out of funds …

Pavan Kulavoor An Indian man who was accused of defrauding a British Indian businessman out of millions of pounds in a real estate scam has been found hanged inside his luxury Mumbai apartment. Pavan Kulavoor, 38, was implicated in the £2.3 million scam alongside his sister Neishaa Gharat – a …

A British-Asian businessman from London was fleeced out of millions in a scam involving his own relatives, including a UK-based couple well known among British Asian society circles, according to a complaint filed in Mumbai. Harrow-based business tycoon Rajesh Tailor, 55, alleges that he has been swindled out of funds …