Europe & Row

The 50-year-old Indian origin man in Singapore was jailed for 11.5 years on Thursday for committing armed robbery at a petrol station and admitting to drug consumption and possession. Visvanathan Vaidvelu had pleaded guilty a week after running away in the middle of his court hearing while out on bail....

Sadiq Khan, mayor of London, has reiterated his condemnation of violence outside the Indian high commission as part of protests on August 15 and September 3. In the latest issue of ‘Asian Voice’, a leading British Asian publication, Pakistan origin leader paid tributes to the Indian community, adding that he...

Ahead of Diwali festivities, celebrated imposingly by Indians globally, Scotland Yard is investigating a series of recent burglaries targeting gold at Indian origin households in North London. The detectives from the North Area Command Unit of Metropolitan Police began investigating burglaries following the incidents of two suspected linked aggravated burglaries...

As Thomas Cook, the British travel giant collapsed on Monday, Thomas Cook India assured its customers that the company was a separate entity and not affected by the United Kingdom tour operator’s collapse. Chairman Madhavan Menon tweeted on Monday saying Thomas Cook India has been independent of Thomas Cook PLC...

OakNorth Bank, an Indian origin entrepreneur’s London-headquartered start-up is leading the United Kingdom capital’s financial technology boom as it gets ahead of New York in the sector, according to a report released on Monday. The data shows that Rishi Khosla’s OakNorth, a scale-up business lender which uses an artificial intelligence...

The grieving Indian origin family of a woman killed in a hit-and-run at Walsall in England was racially abused while paying tribute to their loved one at the scene of the tragedy. The British police force is now appealing for witnesses and information. The 52-year-old Kulvinder Kaur died after being...

Former British Prime Minister David Cameron released his memoirs on Thursday, in which he revealed that former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh planned to take military action against Pakistan if another Mumbai-type terror attack occurred. David Cameron, who interacted with Manmohan Singh as prime minister, described him as a...

The UK court has banned two Indian origin restaurant owners from the formation, promotion, or management of a company without the permission of the court over tax evasion, which caused the United Kingdom tax department losses of more than 4 million pounds. The 55-year-old Sukdev Gill admitted that he caused...

A Hindu medical student from the Sindh region in Pakistan was found murdered in her hostel room on Tuesday with a piece of cloth tied to her neck and door locked from inside. According to reports, the victim, identified as Namrita Chandani, a first-year medical student, belonged to Ghotki town...

Former British Prime Minister David Cameron has slammed the United Kingdom’s senior-most Indian origin Cabinet minister Priti Patel in his memoir ‘For The Record’. In his memoir, Cameron also makes an attack on some of his former Conservative Party colleagues who he said shocked and betrayed him in their attacks...