Nearly 50 years ago British MP Enoch Powell gave one of the most racist and controversial speeches in British political history. “Rivers of Blood”, as it came to be known, was a tirade against Indians and Africans coming to work and settle in Britain. To him it was “literally mad” that the country was allowing them in. “It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own […]
Indian businesses and policymakers are worried over UK’s vote on whether to quit the European Union (EU), as a decision to pull out may mean a realigning of many companies’ operations, although the exact impact on India’s real economy is anybody’s guess. Britain is set to take a call on whether it should share common economic objectives as the rest of the 27-member nations of the monetary union and this […]
A new type of ichthyosaur, an extinct marine reptile which was alive at the same time as the dinosaurs, has been identified from a fossil which had been in the collections of Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery in Britain for more than 30 years. Similar-shaped to dolphins and sharks, ichthyosaurs, which are often misidentified as “swimming dinosaurs” and also referred as “sea monsters”, swam the seas of the earth […]
An amateur treasure hunter has discovered one of the largest hoards of Anglo Saxon coins ever found in Britain worth over one million pounds. The 5,251 silver coins in “superb condition” were found in a farmer’s field near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. They are said to form one of the largest hoards of Anglo Saxon coins ever found in Britain. The dig was organised by the Weekend Wanderers Detecting Club in […]
LONDON: David Cameron has expressed his desire to see a British-Asian Prime Minister in his lifetime. The British prime minister is known to be a great friend of India and has earlier said he wants to see more Indians as part of Britain’s judiciary, armed forces and politics. Cameron said at a leadership award recently, “Let us think big about what Britons of all backgrounds can achieve. When I hear […]
