In a cabinet shuffle on Wednesday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved Dominic Raab from his post as secretary of state for the foreign, commonwealth and development office. The demotion was a...

Sunak tweeted: “Whilst the test and trace pilot is fairly restrictive, allowing only essential government business, I recognise that even the sense that the rules aren’t the same for every...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Downing Street neighbour, Chancellor Rishi Sunak, went into self-isolation on Sunday after being contacted by the NHS Test and Trace system about being in ...

The next Netflix movie could perhaps be called, Nightmare in Downing Street, because of the scandal that has erupted over how Boris Johnson paid the £58,000 bill for the redecoration of his grac...

A middle-ranking American diplomat who was posted in Calcutta in the early 1980s after serving in Dhaka had a disarming way of avoiding the risk of infection in the subcontinent. Declining ice or wate...

Finance minister Rishi Sunak announced a costly extension of his emergency aid programmes to see Britain’s economy through its current coronavirus lockdown, but announced a tax hike for many bus...

Offered West Bengal’s finance ministership, Tulsi Charan Goswami, the brilliant but mercurial Serampore zamindar, laughed that if he managed public money as he did his own, the state would ...

Britain’s ruling Conservative Party, once regarded by the vast majority of Indian voters as “racist” and anti-immigration, likes to boast it produced the nation’s first Jewish ...

UK chancellor Rishi Sunak and three fellow ruling Conservative Party members of Parliament from northern England have been “barred for life” by a local pub and restaurant in their constitu...

Sir — Naomi Osaka won her second US Open women’s singles trophy and her third Grand Slam in a thrilling match last week (“Feet on ground, star reclaims sky”, Sept 14). Osaka pl...