Europe & Row

The United Kingdom government has vindicated its move to refuse the right to live and work for hundreds of India professionals in Britain, stating that the applicants caught up in a visa row are chargeable of misconduct. The UK Home Office, following a long-drawn campaign by the Highly Skilled Migrants...

An Indian-origin finance consultant from North London is on legal proceeding for allegedly sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman after a late night party with his colleagues. The 28-year-old Sanjay Naker, as the trial got underway at Inner London Crown Court this week denies three charges of rape, one count of...

A United Kingdom-based Indian-origin entrepreneur has been appointed the new co-chair of the Conservative Party Friends of India (CF India) group. Rami Ranger, founder of Sun Mark Limited, a consumer goods company will chair the organization alongside Tory MP Zac Goldsmith, the brother of Jemima Khan. "I know that under Rami...

An Indian-origin British man has been sentenced to 20 months of captivity for posting Islamophobic rages on Twitter in the rouse of the terrorist attack earlier this year at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. Rhodenne Chand, 31, was found guilty on Monday stirring up racial hate online at Birmingham...

A senior Indian-origin surgeon on Monday called on the United Kingdom administration to value abroad medical professionals, from countries like India, without which the state-funded National Health Service (NHS) would not last. Dr. Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the British Medical Association (BMA), speaking to thousands of doctors from around the...

In the killing of a 28-year-old British Sikh man in 2016, the four Indian-origin menfolk found guilty of hacking and putting him to death as vengeance for having an extramarital affair with one of their wives have been condemned to over 90 years of incarceration at the Old Bailey...

An Indian-origin Preti Taneja has won the Desmond Elliott Prize In London for her first novel, "We That Are Young", a retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear set in modern-day India. Taneja, who is born in the United Kingdom of patents from India, accepted the accolade at a ceremony in London's...

A chief Indian origin scholarly has gone on strike alleging faculty members from King's College London spurned to address her a "Doctor". Priyamvada Gopal, 50, delineated the incident as part of "consistently racist aggression and profiling" from porters at King's College. Cambridge University fellow specializing in post-colonial literature, took it to...

The British government has drawn a direct link-up between the exclusion of Indian students from a relaxation of visa rules, that were prolonged to 10 other countries, including China and the Maldives, and India's decision to pull out of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the return of illegal...

Global professional services company Accenture has appointed an Indian-origin cybersecurity expert Anup Ghosh as the Managing Director of Accenture Security. Technology focused background will be brought by Ghosh in his new role and executive leadership to lead strategic technology investments that aided the company register speedy ontogeny in the managed...