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...

The UK government is planning to introduce a so-called “Seat Out to Help Out” scheme to help theatres and other entertainment venues reopen after an extended period of coronavirus lockdown...

Indian restaurants in Britain have given a warm welcome to possibly the most innovative part of Rishi Sunak’s mini-budget in which the chancellor urged the nation to eat out at half price in ord...

After less than a month in office, the new British chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak, gave a very assured and confident performance in presenting his first budget on Wednesday when he unveiled ...

Few Bengali women get the chance to make Western art ‘accessible’ to a British television audience, but Sona Datta has been presenting an hour-long BBC documentary, Michelangelo: The Good, the Bad...

Britain’s chancellor Rishi Sunak took centre stage on Friday and said the government will cover 80 per cent of salaries up to £2,500 a month, with workers staying on the books of employers.He said ...

The word or expression of the year 2020 will probably turn out to be ‘self-isolate’. But what we are to read if we have to be confined to our homes on account of the Covid-19 pandemic was discusse...