- Tuesday, March 04, 2025
A former Greater Manchester Police officer, once regarded as a role model, has been convicted of misconduct and sexual assaults on young men and women. Mohammed Adnan Ali, 36, came in contact with young people while working as a volunteer Police Cadet leader and a student development officer and assessment…
A UK-based charity working on a project to build Britain’s first Jagannatha temple in London has welcomed a pledge of £25 million from an Odisha-origin entrepreneur. Shree Jagannatha Society (SJS) UK said global Indian investor Biswanath Patnaik made the pledge at the first Shree Jagannatha Convention held in London on…
The Indian government on Wednesday (26) urged the Supreme Court to allow Parliament to handle the questions raised in petitions seeking legal recognition of same-sex marriages. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Indian government, presented arguments before a constitution bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, stating that the issue…
Cricket and music marked the Sikh festival of Vaisakhi in central Birmingham over the weekend. Around 80 people, including women and children, took part in the softball Vaisakhi Cricket Cup tournament – a fun competition – organised by the Club at Edgbaston’s indoor centre. The action was accompanied by traditional…
Sundar Nagarajan, 65, an Indian national with addresses in the UK and Belgium, was arrested by Scotland Yard in London on a US extradition warrant as part of a coordinated UK-US action against terrorism financing. During his appearance via video link at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday (25), Nagarajan’s lawyer…
An Indian woman and 18 Sudanese women were arrested on Tuesday (25) at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, India by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) for their involvement in a gold smuggling racket. The officials seized 16.36 kg of gold in paste form valued at Rs 10.16…
According to Indian National Congress advocate BM Mangukia, Indian politician Rahul Gandhi has submitted an application to the Gujarat High Court on Tuesday (25), challenging the Surat sessions court’s order that refused to suspend his conviction in a criminal defamation case last week, related to his “Modi surname” comment. The…
The UK government has reported the arrest of 60 moped drivers, including Indians, Brazilians, and Algerians, who were working illegally for major food delivery firms in the country. The crackdown on illegal migration to the UK lasted a week, during which the arrests were made for offenses such as illegal…
The Libyan coastguard on Tuesday (25) recovered the bodies of 11 migrants including a child after their Europe-bound boat sank off the North African country’s coast. The coastguard also came to the aid of at least four survivors of the shipwreck who were able to swim to shore after the…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that a company from India has produced contaminated cough syrup that has been discovered in the Marshall Islands and Micronesia. Last year, child deaths were associated with other cough syrups in some countries. The WHO statement did not provide information about whether children…
