Indian national at centre of Pak’s misinformation network

NEW DELHI: Portals and groups such as...

Inside the elections: A look into the role EC’s poll observers play

NEW DELHI: Every general election, over 2,000...

Digvijaya locked in fight with BJP’s Rodmal Nagar in Rajgarh

NEW DELHI: Rajgarh gears up for elections on...

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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...

A poor performance at PMQ from Johnson

This week began with schools and many offices returning to work, alternate weeks seems to be in vogue to accommodate social distancing. London is...

UK witnesses a serious lack of leadership

The government returns to Westminster on Tuesday, even though only a limited number of MPs return to the House of Commons chamber it does...

UK’s education circus

The country is experiencing a fine fiasco around exam results, first the A-level confusion and the blame game variety show prompted accusations of incompetence;...

Cummings, Mirza move into Whitehall

Rishi Sunak, Chancellor, warned of hard times ahead. This week showed UK in dire economic straits, with the economy shrinking by 20.4 between April...

Bring Back the Boris Johnson of City Hall

In spite of a majority of 80 the Government’s recent performance has seen Conservatives divide, the media and commentators are giving the government a...

What’s next for Britain in the Indo-Pacific Century?

The aim of the Commission is to write the blueprint for a new strategic approach to the region, examining questions of trade, diplomacy, politics,...

Problems stack up for Conservatives but polling results improve

The Royal Courts of Justice granted Shamina Begum, the teenager who travelled to Syria in 2015 married and had had three children with an...

Climbing out of Covid-19 

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is popular with MPs and the people, spending unreservedlydespite UK entering the severest recession and unemployment Britain has ever seen,government borrowings...

Johnson is no Sinophobe but will he de-Sinofy Britain 

Huawei’s 35% role in UK’s 5G is incessantly analysed and debated, the pressure to de-Sinofy increases. It is known 68 Conservative MP’s are against...

Macron visits UK; Labour flays govt ‘mishandling’ of pandemic

Labour is shoring up a narrative that might, post-Covid, culminate in a bid for another general election.   President Emmanuel Macron came to London to mark...

Can Boris Johnson restore and unite a multi-ethnic society?

London: Black voices are being heard in UK in an unprecedented way following the heinous and public homicide of George Floyd. Under the banner...

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