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TOI Correspondent from London: Two Indian-origin passengers, a man and a woman, were arrested at Heathrow airport on suspicion of modern-day slavery after their flight landed from Mumbai on Tuesday night.A Metropolitan Police spokesperson told TOI: “Met officers arrested two people at London Heathrow Airport on March 1… Officers arrested a 30-year-old man and a…
LONDON: An Indian-origin senior British diplomat has quit the UK foreign office, criticising it for being woke, stuffed with paper-pushers and underperformers and putting the “worship of international law” above national security.In a column in the UK Times titled ‘Foreign Office fails to put Britain first’, Ameer Kotecha wrote: “Our impotence on Iran and craven…
TOI Correspondent from London: An Indian-origin businessman who owns a string of high-end restaurants, including Michelin-starred Benares in Mayfair, has been convicted of spiking a woman’s cocktail with a date-rape drug at the private members’ club Annabel’s.Vikas Nath (63), a British citizen, was convicted by a jury at Southwark crown court on Friday of lacing…
LONDON: An Indian-born British civil servant has found himself unwittingly under fire on social media over the controversial Chagos deal.Dr Francis Vijay Narasimhan Rangarajan was born in Delhi and educated at Cambridge University where he obtained a master’s in maths and PhD in astrophysics.Since March 2024 he has been chief executive of the Electoral Commission….
Naijil Paul (Picture from X) TOI Correspondent from London: A nurse of Indian origin has been sentenced to seven years and nine months in jail in Scotland for raping a colleague and sexually assaulting two others whilst working as a care home manager.Naijil Paul (47) was charged with the offences in 2018 but fled to…
LONDON: Two rapes in the West Midlands targeting two young Sikh women have triggered fear and concern among the British Sikh community which has lived in the region for decades.A white British man, John Ashby (32) from Birmingham, has been charged with the rape of a Punjab-born woman aged in her 20s on the evening…
NEW DELHI: Mocking Ottawa’s decision to designate it a terror group, Lawrence Bishnoi gang has claimed responsibility for Monday’s killing of 68-year-old Indian-origin millionaire Canadian businessman Darshan Singh Sahsi. The group said the target refused to pay “protection money”, reports Rajshekhar Jha.The group has also claimed responsibility for firing at Punjabi singer Channi Nattan’s residence…
PIO manager shot dead outside Pittsburgh motel Rakesh Ehagaban-Patel (51), originally from Rayam village near Bardoli, in Gujarat’s Surat district, was shot dead outside the motel where he worked as a manager in Robinson Township, Pittsburgh. He was responding to a disturbance when he was shot on Friday.It is the second killing in the past…
