India reduces security outside UK high commission in New Delhi

Barriers also removed from high commissioner’s residence after Sikhs protest at Indian mission in LondonNew Delhi has reduced security outside the British high commission and the high commissioner’s residence in the Indian capital, removing the usual y…

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‘Hope is essential’: Afghanistan’s silenced musicians find a new stage

A British orchestra will this week play, for the first time, a programme of Afghan music, featuring exiled Afghan musicians on traditional instrumentsThe musicians of Afghanistan have again been silenced by the Taliban. Other than specific religious an…

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BBC to pay £30,000 to Bangladeshi Labour councillor for identity mix-up

Liza Begum said confusion with Apsana Begum who was acquitted of fraud charges ‘reflects notion all people of colour look the same’The BBC has agreed to pay £30,000 in damages to a British Bangladeshi Labour councillor after it mixed her up with Apsana…

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Locked-out Myanmar envoy urges UK not to recognise replacement

Kyaw Zwar Minn has been barred from London embassy by representatives of Myanmar juntaMyanmar’s ambassador to the UK, who has been locked out of his embassy by representatives of his country’s military, has urged the British government not to recognise…

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HSBC to slash post-Covid office space by 40% as profits drop by a third

Bank also reaffirms greater shift towards Asia-Pacific, where most of its earnings come fromHSBC is to reduce its office space around the world by nearly 40% as part of sweeping cost cutting designed to capitalise on new part-office-part-homeworking ar…

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