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Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has impressed everyone by telling them that he regularly fasts for thirty-six hours starting on a Sunday evening and continuing till Tuesday morning. So, for those 36 hours he has only tea or coffee. (Image: AFP)

Kishwar Desai | Will fasting help Sunak better his image? Greta got better of UK cops

From PM Modi's spiritual fasting to PM Rishi Sunak's disciplined 36-hour fast, leaders' unique practices make headlines

05 Feb 2024 12:00 AM

Former British Prime Minister David Cameron (Photo: AP)

Kishwar Desai | Will Cameron rush to Tories' rescue? Blyton's Famous 5 makes comeback

It is rare for a former Prime Minister to come back to save his sinking party

11 Dec 2023 12:05 AM

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street for his weekly Prime Ministers Questions at the House of Commons in London, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP/PTI)

Farrukh Dhondy | Focus on Boris, Rishi as Britain examines how it handled Covid

The inquiry is entrusted with finding out precisely how the virus spread and what the government of the time did or did not do.

25 Nov 2023 12:01 AM

AA Edit | Sunak’s political gamble may be too little, too late

The UK PM may have had little choice in sacking his rebellious home secretary Suella Braverman

15 Nov 2023 12:01 AM

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)

Kishwar Desai | Will Boris become a journalist again? Sunak might go more anti-Green

Boris Johnson will be hosting his own news slot.

30 Oct 2023 12:05 AM

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Rishi Sunak and First Lady of the United Kingdom Akshata Murty being welcomed by the Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Ashwini Kumar Choubey upon their arrival at Palam Airforce Airport ahead of the G20 Summit, in New Delhi, Friday, Sept. 8, 2023. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | India, play hardball with UK

A free trade pact with India might be Mr Sunak’s ticket to re-election, and we must not give it to him and the Tories cheaply.

09 Sep 2023 12:27 AM

London's National Gallery and British Museum (Photo: AP)

Kishwar Desai | British Museum loses argument for hanging on to looted treasures

2,000 items from the British Museum had been stolen, or were unaccounted for.

04 Sep 2023 12:12 AM

Britain’s Home Office says asylum seekers arriving undocumented to the United Kingdom could be monitored with electronic and GPS tags. (AFP File Photo)

Farrukh Dhondy | Asylum-seekers’ ‘tags’ intrusive, but there’s also a positive aspect

Controversy Erupts Over UK's Asylum Seeker Tagging Plan Amid Family Ties

02 Sep 2023 12:05 AM

Just Stop Oil supporters gathered at the gates to No. 10 Downing Street to read out a public declaration of civil resistance. (Photo: Twitter)

Farrukh Dhondy | Just Stop Oil! Protests over fossil fuels in UK escalating

In recent months an agitational group 'Just Stop Oil' has started radically agitating to save the planet from human-initiated climate change

12 Aug 2023 12:05 AM

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. (AP File Photo)

Farrukh Dhondy | Does Sunak have no fashion sense…or is he simply behind the times?

Now Derek Guy, a men’s fashion expert, contends in The Times that Hedgie’s fashion sense is stuck in the year 2000.

05 Aug 2023 12:10 AM

The female mosquito uses the red liquid to raise its offspring. (Photo by brgfx on Freepik)

Sucheta Dasgupta | Why only the female mosquito lets blood

It’s the female mosquito that lives off our anatomy!

30 Jul 2023 12:10 AM

AA Edit | Setbacks and solace for Sunak

Tactical voting, somewhat akin to India’s Mahagathbhandan against the ruling party, may damage the Tories.

25 Jul 2023 12:42 AM

Margot Robbie in the new Barbie movie (Twitter)

Kishwar Desai | Staycations in UK are suddenly the rage

But the big story for everyone is Barbie versus Oppenheimer!

24 Jul 2023 12:19 AM

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Caesar vs Brutus or Boris vs Rishi? Morality twist to UK power games

BoJo read the graffiti on the wall and resigned his seat before the judgment and penalty were announced.

17 Jun 2023 12:22 AM

The coronation of King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla takes places on May 6. (Photo: Twitter)

Chariot ride to be shorter for King... Did Modi rap Rishi over Khalistanis?

Even the response on the streets may not be as expansive as it was for the queen.

17 Apr 2023 12:28 AM

Kishwar Desai | King’s German trip apt; as Covid tally climbing, boosters awaited

We are just a month and bit away from the coronation of King Charles the Third.

03 Apr 2023 12:35 AM

Britain's first Indian-origin Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. (AP Photo/Aberto Pezzali)

Farrukh Dhondy | Does African link colour attitudes of Indians in British politics?

s there a way of telling the mind’s construction by the candidacy or the policy?

01 Apr 2023 12:08 AM

Kishwar Desai | More royal family drama looming as coronation nears; Jemima shines...

Jemima Khan has never been out of the public eye.

06 Mar 2023 12:55 AM

Britain's newly appointed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak walks to pose outside the to 10 Downing Street in central London, on October 25, 2022 (Photo: AFP)

Kishwar Desai | A more desi Diwali in Sunak's Britain; storm over latest episodes in Crown

There are deep misgivings as to how closely (or not) the serial seems to be following real lives

14 Nov 2022 12:15 AM

Rishi Sunak will take charge as Britain's first Indian-origin Prime Minister after an audience with King Charles III on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Aberto Pezzali)

Rishi Sunak to take charge as UK Prime Minister after meeting King Charles

The former chancellor will then make his first prime ministerial address on the steps of 10 Downing Street

25 Oct 2022 9:37 AM

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