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Who is Humza Yousaf? Pakistani-origin politician is first Muslim to lead Scotland

Scottish first minister Yousaf’s rise highlights changing political landscape in modern-day Britain, which has seen many South Asians including Rishi Sunak & Sadiq Khan assume positions of power.

British PM Sunak to raise Egyptian-British hunger strike’s case at the COP27 climate summit

Abd el-Fattah, who rose to prominence with Egypt's 2011 uprising, has been on hunger strike for 219 days against his detention and prison conditions.

Kejriwal goes ‘catfishing’ in BJP pond & London Bridge is falling down on Rishi

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Pretty astounding’: Biden says Sunak’s ascent as UK leader is ‘a groundbreaking milestone’

'Pretty astounding': Biden says Sunak's ascent as UK leader is 'a groundbreaking milestone'

All you need to know about Rishi Sunak, Britain’s next PM

Sunak, the 42-year-old former finance minister, will become Britain's third prime minister in less than two months.

Indians delight as Rishi Sunak becomes new UK PM on Diwali

Liz Truss, leader of the Conservative Party, quit as UK prime minister six weeks after she took office.

Rishi Sunak more suited than Conservative rivals to be PM—if UK can look past his skin colour

As Rishi Sunak gets another shot to be UK PM, the former Chancellor is holding back from announcing his candidature until he is sure party MPs and members really want him this time.

Truss’s disastrous spell as PM ends the revival of Thatcher’s libertarian economics

Truss's solution to UK's weak growth, productivity and low pay since 2008 crisis was to challenge economic 'orthodoxy' & demand faster, radical action to shake the economy out of its torpor.

UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after 6 weeks, done in by failed economic programme

Truss' measures to overhaul the British economy sent shockwaves through the market and deeply divided her Conservative Party.

UK PM Liz Truss rethinking tax-cut plans amid vocal criticism of economic strategy

The government has repeatedly said it would stick to most of her tax cut plans while also protecting public spending, but economists and critics say something has to give.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.