British Council

A similar gun attack took place in 2018, when a Colombian drug trafficker was fatally shot outside a British Council school a few kilometres away.

He first visited Edinburgh in 2007 on a British Council tour, when he was running the South African National Arts Festival.

Dr Shah will float the idea of a permanent BBC charter, which would bring the BBC in line with other institutions such as the British Council, the Bank of England and UK Sport.

A British Council report valued Durga Puja’s 2019 economic impact at over $4.5bn, nearly 3% of West Bengal state’s GDP.

A report from the British Council last week suggested the "post-Covid boom" in international-student numbers would end this year, because of "rising political pressure against migration" and the increasing cost of studying in the UK.