London, Oct 29 (IANS) In a poll conducted on the UK’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s first two days in office, 39 per cent of respondents picked the Indian-origin leader over Keir Starmer, chief of the opposition Labour Party. The poll, conducted by Redfield and Wilton, asked 1,500 people who they thought would be a better […]
Washington, Oct 25 (IANS) US President Joe Biden called the impending UK premiership of Rishi Sunak a “groundbreaking milestone”. Biden, as most other world leaders, is still getting used to the Indian-descent Sunak’s name. He called him “Rashi”, which was a full vowel off Sunak’s actual first name Rishi. But that slip mattered little to his […]
London, Oct 27 (IANS) The extraordinary wealth of the wider family of Britain’s super-rich Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his billionaire heiress wife Akshata Murthy has been laid bare, the media reported. With an estimated net fortune of 730 million pounds that includes multiple properties in Britain and the US, a string of business interests and […]
Rishi Sunak has made the first appointments of his reshuffle by keeping Jeremy Hunt as UK chancellor and appointing Dominic Raab as deputy prime minister and justice secretary, after the departure of nearly a dozen cabinet ministers, the media reported. The new prime minister also re-appointed James Cleverly as foreign secretary, Ben Wallace as defence […]
Even as they wonder whether Rishi Sunak will be able to steer the Conservatives and his country out of the “fiscal black hole” they have to contend with, British commentators haven’t missed the significance of his elevation to Britain’s highest political office on Diwali. The timing is particularly significant in his case because Sunak will […]
London, Oct 19 (IANS) UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman resigned from her post on Wednesday, taking responsibility for sending an official document from her personal email, while also noting her concerns over the “government’s direction” and breaking of pledges, particularly on restricting illegal immigrants. The Indian-origin Braverman had recently figured in the news for noting that […]
Mumbai, Oct 14 (IANS) A Mumbai-based leading cardiac surgeon Dr. Ramakanta Panda has been shortlisted for the prestigious Sony-BBC Earth Photography Contest-2022, an official said here on Friday. The theme for this year’s contest was ‘Thrill of Life’ and photographers worldwide were invited to send their entries in categories like landscape, adventure and wildlife. After a […]
Lucknow/ Gurugram, Oct 10 (IANS) Veteran Samajwadi leader and MP, Mulayam Singh Yadav, died here on Monday after a prolonged illness. His son and former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav tweeted about his demise. Mulayam Singh Yadav was 82 and had been on life support system since the past one week. He was admitted to the Medanta […]
Moscow, Sep 29 (IANS) Russia Vladimir Putin will hold a signing ceremony on Friday formally annexing four more areas of Ukraine after self-styled referendums condemned by Ukraine and the West as a sham, the media reported. Russian-backed officials had earlier claimed the five-day exercise secured almost total popular support, BBC reported. So-called votes were held in […]
Washington, Sep 24 Soaring inflation is high on the agenda for voters and that’s troubling for the Democrats in the midterms for the house of reps, just two months away in November, which promises to be a new defining moment in politics that could change the course of history of the country with both parties seem […]