UK: Voting begins in bitter Labour leader contest

Ballot papers were posted out as voting opened on Monday to decide if veteran leftist Jeremy Corbyn will remain the head of UK's Opposition Labour party, amid deep divisions within the 116-year-old......

David Cameron new British PM; Clegg his deputy

Conservative Conservative leader David Cameron took over as Britain's new Prime Minister, ousting the Labour party from power after a 13-year rule, after striking an agreement with the Liberal......

Britain's PM-to-be wants special ties with India

David Cameron, the man most likely to take over as the next Prime Minister of Britain, has promised to forge a "new special relationship" with India and support India's bid for a seat in the UN......

UK: Cautious response to 'Mahatma Gandhi Marg'

An appeal by a US-based Gandhi Monument Council to name streets in UK towns after Mahatma Gandhi has received cautious response in Leicester, the city widely considered to be a 'Little India'. The......

Lodha-owned Indsur Group acquires CDA Contracts

Mumbai-based S M Lodha promoted Indsur Group on Sunday announced the acquisition of a leading British thermal engineering company CDA Contracts Ltd.     The acquisition of CDA......

Jaguar stops making popular model, cuts 300 jobs

Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover announced on Wednesday 300 more job cuts at its Halewood Plant in Merseyside, where it plans to cease production of the Jaguar X-TYPE, an eight-year-old range of......

Shekhar Kapur joins UK millionaires' league

Non-Resident Indian film director Shekhar Kapur has joined the Asian millionaires' list spearheaded by NRI steel industrialist Lakshmi Mittal, even as the combined wealth of 300 Asian millionaires......

Calling all graduates

A Business Standard undercover team finds out how the business process outsourcing industry goes about hiring in the hundreds.India was once famous for being the land of unemployed graduates.You......

Ronaldo's family appreciate Liverpool fans' gesture

IMAGE: Liverpool fans applaud on the seventh minute for Manchester United 's Cristiano Ronaldo and his family during their EPL game at Anfield on Tuesday. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters Cristiano......

Top 20 Sports Photos of the Year

What an incredible year this was for sports fans and sports stars themselves. We saw Novak Djokovic rally from behind to shock Roger Federer to win the Wimbledon title, the NBA came to India with......

BEST Sports Photos of the Week!

Another week of sporting action has come to a close. From the 2nd Ashes Test at Lord's to all the soccer action in La Liga and the English Premier League, it was all happening in the sporting......

Could title win be the start of a Man City dynasty?

The dynasty will only be built on European success, though, and after the quarter-final exit to Liverpool, Manchester City's owners, who want a gilded continental powerhouse to match United's......

When sportsmen and the drug mafia made for strange bedfellows

IMAGE: Rafael Marquez. Photograph: Reuters/Files The world woke up on Thursday morning to the news for Mexico captain and former Barcelona defender Rafael Marquez as one among 20 people sanctioned......