Rahul Singh
PRime Minister Narendra Modi has excelled himself by getting the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, as the chief guest for Republic Day. There is some bit of uncertainty over his visit owing to the pandemic-induced restrictions in place in the United Kingdom, but it is a good occasion to reflect on India-UK ties, especially since 1947.
For a start, Johnson has a close family connection with India. His second wife, Marina Wheeler, is half-Indian. In fact, Marina’s mother, Dip Kaur, was a Sikh. She was married to my father Khushwant Singh’s youngest brother, Daljit. They divorced and Dip then married Sir Charles Wheeler, the BBC correspondent in New Delhi. They had two daughters, Marina and Shirin. Marina met Boris when she was studying at The European School in Brussels. After his brief first marriage was annulled, he married Marina. The marriage lasted 25 years, and they had four children. The couple was formally divorced just over a year ago, and Boris married
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Group kicks against calls for dismissal of Chief Imam’s spokesperson
A group, the Independent Zongo Communicators Team have described as misplaced calls for the dismissal of the Spokesperson of the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Aremeyaw Shaibu.
According to the group, the Coalition of Progressive Muslim Youth Organisations – Ghana, had no locus within the scheme of administration arrangements of Office of National Chief Imam to be ordering the National Chief Imam to dismiss individuals working in his Office.
In a petition addressed to the Office of the National Chief Imam, the Progressive Muslim Youth Organisation – Ghana, said the Chief Imam’s Spokesperson in discharging his extra duties as the Acting Chairman of CODEO towed a political line when he in his assessment of the 2020 election results asked Ghanaians to give confidence to the presidential election results declared by the Electoral Commission (EC) as it reflected accurately how citizens voted on December 7, 202