London, June 19 (IANS) At least 250,000 girls and likely more were subjected to gang rape, trafficking, torture, and coerced pregnancy over several decades, with the perpetrators overwhelmingly being of Pakistani Muslim heritage and the enabling institutions overwhelmingly of the British state, according to a 219-page report released by a privately funded parliamentary inquiry into organised child sexual exploitation in the United Kingdom (UK). The Rape Gang Inquiry, chaired by Reform UK MP Rupe…
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New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) Philosopher Acharya Prashant returned to India on Sunday after a landmark leg of his United Kingdom tour that took him to the platforms of Oxford University, Cambridge and the UK Parliament, where he placed the teachings of Vedanta and Indian Philosophy at the centre of global discourse on some of the defining questions of our times. At Delhi airport, hundreds of students and listeners who had converged from across the country gave him a reception that was as much a hom…
London, June 14 (IANS) Philosopher and author Acharya Prashant addressed a special gathering at the House of Lords in the British Parliament on June 12. Speaking as the Chief Guest on the theme “Indian Roots, Global Wings”, he presented the message of Indian philosophy and Vedanta in a global context.He said that true Indianness lies beyond culture, tradition, festivals, or cuisine, and that India’s real identity rests on her emphasis on self-knowledge pursued through self-enquiry, the fundament…
London, June 5 (IANS) In a tour that has placed an Indian philosopher on the stage of some of Britain’s most prestigious intellectual and policy stages, Acharya Prashant has spent the past week carrying a climate message to capacity audiences at the Cambridge Union, in a one-on-one dialogue with a British peer of the realm, in public sessions that have drawn British audiences well beyond the Indian community, and across a sequence of upcoming engagements at Oxford, the London School of Economics…
New Delhi/London, Feb 8 (IANS) The Indian community has emerged as the most economically successful migrant group in the United Kingdom, a new study has revealed, underlining its enduring and multifaceted contribution to Britain’s economy, public services and international influence.The study, conducted by Aston University in partnership with multicultural advertising agency Here & Now 365, analyses extensive labour market and economic data to position Indians at the forefront of migrant s…