Narrow Survival
The most revealing moments in politics are rarely the ones that end careers. They are the ones that do not.
The most revealing moments in politics are rarely the ones that end careers. They are the ones that do not.
The annual Serampore Heritage Utsav, a festival tomtomming the intriguing cultural mix of the town's rich Danish, British, and Vaishnavite history, was inaugurated last Monday and has already proved a draw with its heritage walks, river cruise, old temples, and even a palace.
Rachel Reeves’s latest Budget attempts something British chancellors before her rarely managed with conviction: mixing fiscal restraint with visible social compassion.
Higher Education Minister in the BJP government Madhya Pradesh Inder Singh Parmar made derogatory remarks against revered social reformer Raja Ram Mohan Roy, calling him a “middleman of the British, who facilitated religious conversions”.
British-Indian Viswashkumar Ramesh, the sole survivor of the Air India plane crash which killed 241 people on board in June 2025 in Ahmedabad, has said he feels like the "luckiest man" alive, but is also suffering physically and mentally.
Yemen's Houthi group has claimed responsibility for attacking a British ship in the Gulf of Aden with several missiles.
British-Indian student Aditya Verma is facing trial in Spain after he was accused of public disorder for sending a message joking about blowing up a plane in which he was travelling along with his friends.
Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic, Abdulrazak Gurnah, who was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature, emphasised on Tuesday that colonialism is not merely a historical phenomenon but continues to exert a profound influence on the world
South Bengal districts, as the senior British envoy to Bengal found, have got immense potential for a number of collaborative projects to help mutual growth of trade and commerce, especially in the fields of healthcare and education.
The British deputy high commissioner, East and northeast at Kolkata, Dr Andrew Fleming visited the Asansol Durgapur Development Authority (ADDA) and held a meeting with CEO Dr Akanksha Bhaskar.
