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Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum to return seven artefacts to India

Jaspreet Sukhija, first secretary, High Commission of India, London, signs the Transfer of Ownership document at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum on 19 August. Image by Ross MacDonald (SNS Group) A Glasgow-based museum has signed a historic agreement with the Indian government to repatriate seven artefacts including a 14th-century Indo-Persian sword, a first such move […]

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Female judge from Afghanistan appeals rejection of application to enter the UK

 Image by Nava Jamshidi/Getty Images/Foreign Policy An Afghan female former judge has appealed against the Home Office’s decision to deny her entry to the UK, media reports have stated. According to her lawyers, the woman, 52, and her son, 24, fled Afghanistan and are in hiding in Pakistan after their home in Kabul was attacked

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Naval ship INS Tarangini marks 75 years of Indian independence in London

INS Tarangini in London The Made-in-India naval ship INS Tarangini, docked at Thames Quay in east London on its UK voyage to coincide with the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence, has been the focal point of celebrations for the Indian diaspora this week. Following a grand welcome to the docks for Commanding Officer Praveen Kumar

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Attacker who stabbed novelist Salman Rushdie ‘surprised’ that he survived

Image by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP The New Jersey man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie told the New York Post in an interview published Wednesday that he was “surprised” the author had survived the attack. “When I heard he survived, I was surprised, I guess,” Hadi Matar, 24, told the tabloid, which said they held a video

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Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa celebrates 75 years of Pakistani independence at London Embassy

Image by AP/Arab News Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa celebrated the country’s 76th Independence Day at the Pakistan Embassy in London where Ukrainian pop star and wife of British-Pakistani business tycoon Muhammad Zahoor, Kamaliya, gave a singing performance. Pakistani billionaire Mohammad Zahoor, the former publisher of Kyiv Post, has reportedly helped purchase two

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Guildhall lit up in Indian and Pakistani flag colours to mark 75 years of independence

Guildhall, in the heart of the City of London, was lit up in the colours of Pakistan and India to mark the 75th anniversary of the independence of the countries. The building was bathed in colours of green and white on Sunday 14 August and orange, white, and green on Monday 15 August. The lighting

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Dadabhai Naoroji’s London home gets Blue Plaque honour

Image by Dinyar Patel/Twitter/Firstpost The south London home where Dadabhai Naoroji, a prominent member of the Indian freedom struggle and Britain’s first Indian parliamentarian, lived for around eight years at the end of the 19th century has been honoured with a commemorative Blue Plaque. The Blue Plaque scheme, run by the English Heritage charity, honours

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Mother-of-four dies after an accident while holidaying in South Africa

Fatima Issa was a teacher at City of Leicester College A British tourist to South Africa has died after allegedly being victim to a freak accident while enjoying holiday with her family. 47-year-old Fatima Issa, from Leicester, was visiting her family and friends in a suburb of Johannesburg when the incident took place. She was

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Third member of poisoned Cardiff family dies in Bangladesh hospital

Mourners gather in Sylhet, Bangladesh, for the funeral of Rafiqul Islam, 51, and 16-year-old Mahiqul. Image by Jubad Ahamed/PA/The Guardian After the death of a Cardiff man and his son last month after a suspected poisoning, a third member of the family is reported to have died as well. 20-year-old Samira Islam is the latest victim

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Hamza Shehbaz travels to London to meet Nawaz Sharif after crippling defeat

Image courtesy: Facebook Hamza Shehbaz, former chief minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province reached London on Thursday to reportedly explain himself to Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif about the party’s defeat in the key by-polls to Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). PTI won 15 out of 20 provincial seats that were up for

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