The Ambani and Merchant families are joyfully preparing for the grand wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant on July 12. The event features elaborate festivities and a high-profile guest list, including former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Samsung CEO Han Jong Hee, who have arrived in Mumbai.
In keenly awaited testimony to the country's public inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic, Dominic Cummings, a self-styled political disruptor, was withering about many of the people dealing with the situation, including his former boss.
British Conservative lawmaker Nadine Dorries stepped down from the House of Commons on Saturday, more than two months after announcing she was quitting in the wake of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s own resignation from Parliament.
Government officials argued the inquiry did not have the legal power to force them to release documents and messages that they said were 'unambiguously irrelevant' to how the government handled COVID-19.
He resigned as a lawmaker with a blistering attack on a parliamentary committee which ruled he had deliberately misled parliament with his accounts of rule-breaking parties.
Johnson came to power nearly four years ago, promising to deliver Brexit and rescue it from the bitter wrangling that followed the 2016 referendum.
The latest move further complicates matters as it bypasses the Rishi Sunak-led government's decision to seek a judicial review into inquiry chair Baroness Heather Hallett's order for all such messages to be handed over.
The property is measured at 8,128 square feet, sitting on nearly 5 acres, and comprises nine bedrooms and five bathrooms. The property also has a guest cottage, garage, tennis court, and stables.
Opening the crunch hearing by a House of Commons committee, the ex-Conservative leader swore an oath on the Bible and declared that "hand on heart, I did not lie to the House".
The House of Commons Privileges Committee has published a fresh bundle of evidence, including photographs and statements from Johnson's close aides at the time, ahead of the oral evidence session.
Parliament's Committee of Privileges is investigating whether Johnson, who was ousted from Downing Street in September, intentionally or recklessly misled parliament in a series of statements about the rule-breaking parties.
Johnson is due to give oral evidence to the House of Commons Privileges Committee this week and made written submissions ahead of that, in which he criticises the panel for going "significantly beyond its terms of reference".
Jo Johnson resigned from the role this week, according to a regulatory filing. He was appointed in June 2022.
The UK's first Indian-origin Prime Minister took charge at 10 Downing Street a day after Diwali last year on October 25 in the wake of intense political turmoil following the unceremonious exit of his predecessors party-gate scandal-hit Boris Johnson and the country's shortest-serving Prime Minister Liz Truss.
Boris Johnson and other Western leaders had been hurrying to Kyiv to show support for Ukraine and try to deter a Russian attack.
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Kyiv on a surprise trip on Sunday, meeting President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and pledging that Britain would "stick by Ukraine as long as it takes". During his trip, Johnson visited Borodyanka and Bucha, the suburbs of the Ukrainian capital that became a byword for atrocities in the West when Russian forces drove towards Kyiv in the first phase of the invasion before being repelled. Watch the video to know more!
Johnson, who left office in September 2022 amid a wave of scandal, was leading Britain when Russia invaded Ukraine in February and in subsequent weeks sought to position Britain as the Ukraine’s number one ally in the West.
Boris Johnson stood down as prime minister in early September after he lost the support of ministers and lawmakers following months of scandals, including parties at the heart of government when the rest of Britain was under a strict lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bloomberg, a former New York mayor who ran for president in 2020, apologised on Thursday at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore, a business gathering whose speakers included Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan and whose delegates included Chinese businessmen.
The two countries need each other now more than ever as "we live in dangerous and turbulent times", he said.
The Mail on Sunday said that the hack was discovered when Truss was running to become Conservative Party leader and prime minister in the summer.
A runoff between the two could have proved divisive for the Conservative Party because many of Johnson's supporters blame Sunak's resignation in July for sparking the downfall of his government.
The investment banker-turned politician is the youngest British prime minister in 210 years.
While the October timeline was set by former prime minister Boris Johnson during his India visit in April, Sunak is on the record expressing his commitment to an FTA with India while Chancellor of the Exchequer at No. 11 Downing Street.
In the end, all of Boris Johnson's bluster couldn't hide the facts: He didn't have the votes to win the Conservative Party leadership contest and stage a political comeback just weeks after being forced out as prime minister.