Disagreements over portfolios hold back government formation in Maharashtra

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s alliance...

The long range war: Biden adds a new dimension to Ukraine crisis

It is not really clear what President...

BJP in need of new tribal leadership in Jharkhand

The BJP’s struggle in Jharkhand highlights the...

Antonia Filmer

‘Covid, conflict, lack of food shattering Myanmar’

Cardinal Charles Bo, the Archbishop of Yangon, spoke to The Sunday Guardian on the situation in Myanmar, which is under army rule.   London: Since 1...

Is Chinese interest in the Sahelian region a colonial threat?

The Sahel comprises Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Chad. The region has been in a widening transnational conflict for 10 years. London: The virtual...

Boris Johnson government mired in an array of errors

The Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP) was the hope of locally employed staff (LES) who have played supporting roles since 2001 but it...

‘Nato troops withdrawal is leading to horrific consequences for Afghanistan’

‘Of great concern for the Western powers should be the prospect of the vacuum being filled by China.’ London: In 2019 the Office of National...

Indo-Pacific region vital to UK’s strategic interests

The Carrier Strike Group is protecting the rules-based order for freedom of navigation, fair rules for equitable distribution of resources between nations, and projecting...

‘Test-Trace and Isolate’ app likely to be reinvented as a vaccine passport

London: UK’s fully vaccinated Health Secretary Sajid Javid reported in a video clip that he had tested positive in a lateral flow test for...

Findings of the Oxford probe into Samant’s complaint still confidential

London: In February 2021 Rashmi Samant, an Indian post-graduate student was victorious in her bid for the Presidency of the Students Union at Oxford...

India playing positive role in Afghanistan: UK Chief of Defence Staff

London: General Sir Nick Carter is the Chief of the Defence Staff of the UK Armed Forces. In an exclusive interaction with The Sunday Guardian,...

India has always played a stabilising role in Afghanistan: UK Chief of Defence Staff

‘I think it is important to recognise that the Taliban’s narrative does not resonate in arguably 80% of the population according to recent polling,...

While UK braces for Euro 2021 final and Freedom Day, administration is breaking the Covid-19 logjam

LONDON: Two events, meanwhile, dominate in the UK— the Euro 2021 Football Final against Italy (11 July), and Freedom Day (19 July). Football, the...

Sajid Javid’s appointment as UK’s new Health Secretary changes the Tory dynamics

Sajid Javid previously served as Home Secretary from 2018 to 2019, and then as Chancellor until February last year, when he was replaced by...

UK’s ILO Lt Commander Stephen Smith joins Indian Navy

Lieutenant Commander Stephen Smith will be based full-time at the Centre, working directly with the Indian Armed Forces and fellow liaison officers from partner...

Conflict of views about China and the pandemic pushing UK into commotion

While the left ear hears an idealistic notion that trade, talks, and investment will be sufficient to keep the peace and enable positive engagement...

Anti-bodies, G7 and sausages: A UK diary

The Prime Minister welcomed the united stance taken by the G7 in condemning the recent coup in Myanmar and the detention of Alexey Navalny...

Has Boris Johnson’s government got caught in a tumult?

Evidently, there are some parallels in India where both the opposition and much of the media have weaponised the pandemic to attack the Prime...

Covid-19: Britain’s saga of variant vocabulary

The British press is notorious for fearmongering about Coronavirus. Even government does not seem to mind its language in this regard liberally using the...

The world cares for India-UK’s 2021 agenda

The effort of helping India amid the trying times is coming from myriad fronts and is happening all over the world which is a testimony...

‘2030 Roadmap’ will further strengthen the Indo-UK ties

A new era is taking shape between UK and India, PM’s Johnson and Modi have made a commitment to bring India and UK economies,...

British Indian diaspora mobilises support for India

The British government too joined India’s many international friends and allies in supplying help. When the Indian embassy in London appeals for oxygen and Remdesivir,...

UK-India bilateral outcomes are now in a limbo

It seemed Johnson was aware cancelling would not be a good move in the eyes of India and he held out until reports of...

Johnson’s India visit showcases UK support and respect for India on world stage

London: Boris Johnson is going to India. Expectations from the British Prime Minister’s first overseas trip since Brexit and Covid-19 lockdowns are numerous. The...

Have vaccine passport, will travel

The 8,000+ responses to Gove’s domestic certification proposal were emphatically negative. Michael Gove, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (CDL), arguably the Deputy Prime Minister,...

China, Russia use social media to fuel protests in UK

London: The disruption being caused through “Kill the Bill” protests in UK is an effort by the Sino-Russian alliance to destroy trust and confidence...

Vaccines: Supply chains become global and nations interdependent

On Thursday, the House of Commons voted 484 to 76 in favour of extending the Coronavirus Act powers, to limit civil liberties, until October. London:...

China tightens its claws on free press, academia

London: On 1 March, the Foreign Correspondents Club of China (FCCC) in Beijing published their report on media freedom in 2020. They revealed “Chinese...

Rishi Sunak top of the pops

Sunak is known as Maharaja of the Dales, Dishy Rishi, India’s son in law, Disney prince version of a Tory MP and People’s Chancellor. London:...

Nirav Modi case: India’s ‘unsanitary jails’ no longer a valid argument in UK courts

London: The case for the extradition by the Government of India of Nirav Deepak Modi (RP, Requested Person) is being seen as a landmark...

Lord Bilimoria looks forward to UK-India education development, collaboration

He is very excited about India’s New Education Policy that will allow foreign universities to open up in India. London: Recently, Lord Karan Bilimoria, Chancellor...

UK-China a balancing act or a decoupling?

In the House of Commons, the government blocked a vote on a ‘genocide amendment’ to the Trade Bill that had threatened to defeat the...

Union on the Edge

The EU’s impulsive decision to trigger Article 16 over vaccines to UK has irked the Conservative government and aggravated the political debate. The border in...

Britain crosses the tragic number of 100,000 Covid deaths

London: Boris Johnson clearly finds it awkward to deliver bad news. During these corona times typically the bad news about restrictions and loss of...

Kenya cheerful in the time of Covid, unlike gloomy UK

Recently in Kenya on a business trip, it was impressive to see digital coordination in action. We were armed with a UK PCR-negative Covid...

British MPs debate India, muddy the waters

With China breathing down the neck of the West and of India is it too farfetched to imagine China’s tacit influence on the issues...

From bad to worse: UK lockdown may last until end March

The NHS is on the edge of toppling over, with exhausted doctors and nurses begging people to protect the NHS, on news channels. London: The...

Boris Johnson succeeds in de-coupling from EU

The outlook for 2021 is positive, with vaccinations being rolled out from 4 January and with PWC predicting UK’s long-term economic growth could outpace...

Modi-Johnson reviving UK-India ties beyond trade

London: UK-India relations have emerged from their recent state of stagnation. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s acceptance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s kind invitation to...

2021: A year to strengthen UK-India relationship

‘UK and India share a long and enduring friendship and as we take back control of our trade, we can champion our global free...

British think-tank advocates an Indo-Pacific Charter

A common denominator between European countries is importance of ASEAN. London: An idea that was articulated in India in April is taking shape across Europe. Now...

ISI favourite shames UK House of Lords

London: On 17 November, the House of Lords Conduct Committee (HLCC) published a 266-page forensic report into the morally bankrupt behaviour of Labour peer,...

A BioNTech vaccine and an ideological rift

London: Matt Hancock applauded the advent of a BioNTech vaccine from the front  bench, claiming the first of 10 million doses could be available before...

‘Taiwan has an outstanding record in challenging the pandemic’

Czech Republic Senator Pavel Fischer says there are risks of continuing to exclude Taiwan from active participation in WHO.     The Sunday Guardian talked to the...

Indo-Pacific is new strategic centre of the world: Shringla in UK

New Delhi: Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla’s visit to UK came on the eve of the US Presidential election, and the week after...

UK locked down again

London: The leak of government’s new Lockdown policy has infuriated the Prime Minister and backbenchers, this leak bounced the government into releasing the stringent restrictions...

Johnson’s government faces unprecedented criticism

As Covid infections rise again and as Tiers1-2-3 unpopularity increases the Boris Johnson government face unprecedented criticism, from within and without. Lord Jonathan Sumption, former...

Circuit breaker: Lockdown gets a new name

London: As England is inching towards another full-scale lockdown, renamed a circuit breaker, a three-tier system has been introduced—traffic lights without a green light. For...

In party speech, Johnson challenges notion he has lost his mojo

Some are reporting that Boris Johnson’s fiancée, Carrie Symonds is an unofficial counsellor to him.   London: Boris Johnson made his annual Party Conference speech virtually,...

Resentment builds as Boris Johnson disappoints

London: Folks who voted for and supported Boris Johnson against his detractors in 2019 are now disappointed with his performance as Prime Minister. Johnson...

Tory coronavirus emergency powers meet rebels

London: Go to work, work at home, now go to work, now work at home, eat out to help out but only in groups of...

Tories getstrong opposition to Internal Market Bill 

The Internal Market Bill (IMB) has caused a furore, despite heavyweight judicial opposition and some parliamentary discomfort the controversial Bill was passed and moves...

Covid-19 strikes back and controversy over UK Bill breaking international law

Before most of the population had overcome the first wave of fear generated by Covid-19 and SAGE, a new sledgehammer of restrictions has been...

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