The UK has temporarily barred the export of a rare, nearly complete set of 19th-century Kangra paintings depicting the Devi Mahatmya, aiming to keep them in the country. The paintings, previously owned by an Indian collector, are valued at £296,000. British museums have until February 2026 to raise funds.
#LondonLetter: Following the dramatic resignation of board member Shumeet Banerji, the BBC’s governance crisis has escalated to the point where MPs now sense a third senior scalp
#LondonLetter: Lexicographers at Cambridge said they chose the word because it has become one of the fastest-rising concepts in public discussion
#LondonLetter: Laila Cunningham makes the remarks during a discussion of the government’s proposal to pressure certain countries to accept the return of their citizens who arrive illegally on small boats
#LondonLetter: Isambard-AI begins its first full cycle of climate modelling as monsoon concerns rise after Punjab’s floods
#LondonLetter:The broadcaster’s misleading edit of Trump’s speech has become a symbol of fading trust — not just in the BBC, but in the British institutions that once defined integrity
#LondonLetter: BBC to apologise over misleading edit of Trump speech
#LondonLetter: Two listening devices were found in Blair's suite; the episode was a reminder of how intelligence rivalry survives even between friendly governments, says Dr Paul McGarr
#LondonLetter:Verification — once the soul of the trade — has become a box-ticking afterthought
#LondonLetter:Black pudding is as much a part of white British culture as 'gulab jamuns' are for Indians
#LondonLetter: 4% of Indian households and 18% of Bangladeshi households live in overcrowded conditions, compared with just 2% of White British families
#LondonLetter: The Royal Air Force, Britain’s air arm and the world’s oldest independent air force, has long served as a model of training and discipline for Commonwealth militaries, including India’s
#LondonLetter: London’s flagship civic space once again becomes the stage for Diwali on the Square
#LondonLetter: Community organisers say more demonstrations are planned in London, particularly outside Downing Street and Parliament, where diaspora activists traditionally gather during crises in Kashmir
#LondonLetter:"Settlement must be earned by contributing to our country," British PM Keir Starmer said
#LondonLetter: Accord arrives amid widespread outrage in the Gulf following an Israeli airstrike in Doha that killed six people
#LondonLetter: The Tata Group’s AI‑171 Memorial and Welfare Trust, with a corpus of Rs 500 crore, has already begun making ex‑gratia payments of Rs 1 crore to some families
#LondonLetter: His story remains both luminous and bitter, for it speaks of fearless defiance and of cruelty without mercy
#LondonLetter: A brutal attack on a Sikh woman in Oldbury and a 100,000-strong far-right march in London reveal a disturbing overlap in rhetoric and rising racial tensions
#LondonLetter: Jeffrey Edward Epstein, first convicted in 2008, continued to move in elite circles for years
#LondonLetter: Families complain that Air India’s interim compensation of about Rs 20.4 lakh (GBP 21,500) is derisory
#LondonLetter: From gurdwaras collecting cash donations to Bhangra musicians staging the forthcoming Birmingham concert for Punjab Flood Aid, the community has shown both creativity and urgency
Organisers report brisk sales of tickets for the open-air event, which aims to fuse culture and charity to send relief to thousands suffering across Punjab | Tickets range from GBP 17 to 35 (Rs 1,800 to Rs 3,700), with proceeds pledged to Khalsa Aid International and other trusted relief organisations
#LondonLetter: For families in flood-ravaged districts, this outpouring of support is a reminder that they are not forgotten
#LondonLetter: The rivalry is ingrained in the memories of millions, from Javed Miandad’s last-ball six at Sharjah in 1986 to India’s victory over Pakistan in the 2011 World Cup
#LondonLetter: What Bengal’s treasury financed in the 1760s had, by 1774, become the financial bedrock of England’s universities, churches and parish life
#LondonLetter: Clive’s career in India began as a clerk for the East India Company and ended with him being among the wealthiest men in Britain
#LondonLetter: The Kohinoor is a part of our Muslim heritage which rightly belongs to the people of Pakistan. With those words, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto pressed Britain in the mid-1970s to hand back the diamond originally mined from the Kollur mine near Golconda in Telengana, before travelling from Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s treasury to the British Crown Jewels collection in London.
#LondonLetter:Dishoom’s leap across the Atlantic was seeded last summer during a week-long pop-up at Pastis, the fashionable French bistro in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District
#LondonLetter:After Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru saw diplomacy as performance — India, a new actor on the world stage, needed to be seen