[ad_1] LONDON: London’s Metropolitan Police force says it has stepped up security after a company that holds details of its officers and staff was hacked. The force said late Saturday that there had been “unauthorised access to the IT system” of one of its suppliers. It said the company, which it did not name, had…
[ad_1] LONDON: Britain’s first female Sikh MP, Preet Kaur Gill, has lost her position on the Labour front bench in a shadow cabinet reshuffle and been demoted to backbench MP.Gill (50), whose family hail from Jamsher Khera in Jalandhar, Punjab, made history when she won Birmingham Edgbaston in the 2017 general election.She quickly climbed the…
[ad_1] For the first time in 70 years, British passports bearing the title of “His Majesty” will start being issued this week in the name of King Charles III. UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman unveiled the new design update on Tuesday evening which changes the passport salutation from “Her Majesty” following the death of Queen…
[ad_1] LONDON: Britain’s governing Conservative Party avoided a drubbing Friday in a trio of special elections, managing to hold onto former premier Boris Johnson’s seat in suburban London. Though the main opposition Labour Party and the smaller centrist Liberal Democrats overturned massive Conservative majorities to win a seat apiece, the Conservatives found some crumbs of…
[ad_1] Indian billionaire Ravi Ruia bought a £113 million ($145 million) London mansion linked to Russian property investor Andrey Goncharenko in one of the UK capital’s biggest residential deals in recent years. The family office of Ruia, who co-owns investment firm Essar Group, purchased the Hanover Lodge mansion overlooking Regent’s Park at 150 Park Road…
[ad_1] LONDON: A new report by a UK think tank has warned that there is a tacit blasphemy law operating in the UK even though blasphemy is legal in Britain. Anti-blasphemy laws still exist in many countries, most notably in Pakistan where blasphemy can be punishable by death. However, blasphemy laws were abolished in England…
[ad_1] LONDON: A hate crime investigation has been launched by police after a Sikh holy text was found damaged outside a residential address in Leeds, northern England.West Yorkshire Police said it received the report of the incident from a member of the local Sikh community on Sunday. The incident occurred in the Headingley area of…
[ad_1] LONDON: As the violence in Manipur continues to rage, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak’s special envoy for freedom of religion or belief (FROB), MP Fiona Bruce, raised concerns about “the ongoing major violence in Manipur” in the main chamber of the House of Commons on Thursday as the BBC came under fire for not…
[ad_1] The British government has announced a second ballot in 2023 for the India Young Professionals Scheme, which is for Indian citizens between 18 and 30, with a qualification of bachelor’s degree level or above and having £2,530 in savings to support themselves in the UK. The ballot, which opens on July 25 allows those…
[ad_1] LONDON: A group of Sikh lawyers in Britain has slammed the Bloom Review, the UK government-commissioned independent review into how it should engage with people of faith, saying its chapter on “faith-based extremism”, which devotes 13 pages to Sikhs, is “colonialist”.A “select committee” was appointed by the UK Sikhs in Law association to undertake…
