- Wednesday, April 16, 2025
BORIS JOHNSON has strongly defended Priti Patel, reiterating that she was doing an “outstanding job” as home secretary. The prime minister turned combative as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn termed Patel’s alleged behavior at work as “shocking” and “unacceptable” during PMQs today (4). Johnson fired back that Patel was “keeping the…
BRITISH INDIAN World War II spy Noor Inayat Khan will get a “fitting tribute” with an exhibition on her life and times set to be launched on the eve of Women’s Day (8). The Commonwealth War Graves Foundation (CWGF) will unveil the exhibition, titled ‘Noor Inayat Khan: A Woman of…
By Sailesh Ram IT is with huge sadness and no little emotion that I pen these words – I am not sure any tribute can truly reflect the immense admiration and respect I had for Mr Solanki. He was without doubt, the editor’s editor; it feels like this phrase belonged…
LONDON MAYOR Sadiq Khan has led tributes to Ramniklal Solanki, a giant of Gujarati journalism and pioneer of British Asian media, who passed away on Sunday (1), after a brief illness. He was 88. Mr Solanki was in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, when he suffered a stroke last week. He was admitted…
By Rithika Siddhartha WHEN he took to the stage at the GG2 Leadership Awards in March 2018, it was the first and only time that Ramniklal Solanki was the recipient of an accolade – usually it would be him who had the honour of presenting awards to winners at the…
By Shailesh Ramniklal Solanki THIS is a tribute I never thought I would have to write or indeed ever wanted to write. It is the most difficult of assignments, but it is one my father would never have shirked. For my brother Kalpesh, sister Sadhana, late sister Smita and I,…
By Priti Patel, home secretary Ramniklal Solanki CBE, was the founding father of Asian media in the UK. Like so many of his generation, he came to Britain in 1964 as a newspaper columnist and grasped an opportunity to start his own paper. In the true spirit of an entrepreneur…
By Amit Roy What was Ramniklal Solanki really like as a man? In all the years that I have known him, I can honestly say I have never heard him raise his voice or lose his temper. He always came across as gentle. If I had a camera to hand,…
RAMNIKLAL SOLANKI, a giant of Gujarati journalism and pioneer of British Asian media, passed away this morning, after a brief illness. He was 88. Mr Solanki was in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, when he suffered a stroke last week. He was admitted to hospital and passed away peacefully on Sunday surrounded by…
US President Donald Trump on Saturday (29) said he planned to meet Taliban leaders in the “not-too-distant future”, asserting that it was time that the war against terrorism was fought by someone else, particularly the countries in the region. “I will be meeting personally with Taliban leaders in the not-too-distant…
