An Indian-origin Opposition Labour Party MP secured a debate in Westminster Hall of the UK parliament to call for justice for the victims of Bhopal gas tragedy, which will mark its 38th anniversary early next month.
Cameron is the second British PM to visit Kolkata after John Major about 16 years ago.
The United Kingdom's Department for International Development launched its biggest civil society project on Thursday to mark World Human Rights Day. The Poorest Areas Civil Society Programme and the International NGO Partnerships Agreement Programme is worth 45 million (Rs 360 crores) spread across the next five years.
Global agencies have shown interest in Bihar's developmental projects. They met Bihar CM Nitish Kumar to chart out an investment plan.
The Left Front government in West Bengal will close down two public sector enterprises (PSEs), offload shares in nine PSE to hive them off as joint ventures, retain 13 enterprises and decide on three more using a line of credit from UK's Department for International Development (DFID) worth 23 million pounds.
The finance ministry and the Reserve Bank are keeping a close watch on price movements in a bid to ensure that inflation remains moderate amid volatile global oil prices.
Three multilateral agencies -- the World Bank, UK's Department for International Development and the European Commission -- will provide $1 billion for the government's education project 'Sarva Siksha Abhiyan'.
Her departure from the cabinet marks an abrupt halt to the meteoric rise of the Gujarati-origin MP, often touted as a potential future leader of the Conservative Party and a prime ministerial candidate.
Over 5 million alumni from the Indian Institutes of Technology, Mumbai University and Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, plan to raise Rs 21,000 crore to start the world's largest infection testing lab in Mumbai.
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) led by Nobel laureate R K Pachauri on Wednesday has commissioned a solar micro-grid connection (SMG) in Tanda village of Jagdishpur block (about 80 km from Lucknow) in Rahul Gandhi's Amethi parliamentary constituency.
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