During his visit, the mayor will open the London India Office in Delhi and the London India Office in Mumbai to promote business, trade, culture and tourism between the city and India and sign at least three agreements including a city-to-city partnership agreement with Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, a tourism agreement in Delhi and an agreement between Film London and the Film and Television Guild of India.
The Commonwealth on Monday gave an ultimatum to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf asking him to repeal the emergency provisions.
They performed 'abhishek' of Shri Nilkanth Varni before being escorted to the Haveli foyer to have a view of the building's architecture.
A three-member Bench of the court ruled that the order by the Department of Health regarding employment of doctors on the High-Skilled Migrant Programme was not lawful, after a 16-month-long legal battle led by the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin.
Indian-origin doctors on Friday won an appeal in the British high court under which international medical graduates on the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme visa can expect to be treated on merit for the 2008 recruitment process and onwards when they compete with UK and EU citizens for postgraduate training jobs.
Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said that Britain's treaty obligations meant the pledge could not be met and that it was "a false attempt to answer to right-wing propaganda." Vaz said he was horrified at the rise in "racist comments."
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, Commander of 4 Corps (Lahore) Lt Gen Mohammed Aziz and Chief of General Staff Gen Mohammed Yusuf had run a proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir in the early 1990s, a new book has claimed.
"Whatever treaty or agreement we do, if it helps... well and good, but the thrust should be to be self-reliance in thorium fuel-based reactors," Kalam told PTI in an interview in London.
Former president A P J Abdul Kalam has been conferred with a Honourary Doctorate of Science by the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom in recognition of his eminence in the international community as a scientist, educationist and statesman. This is the 33rd Honourary Doctorate received by Kalam from Indian and foreign universities.
Bhutto said she was expecting the National Reconciliation Ordinance -- which would grant amnesty to political leaders in corruption cases -- to come out on Thursday.
Hundreds of millions of people follow the Hindu religion and it is difficult to imagine a worse way to welcome visitors from the Indian subcontinent to London than sacking a woman for wearing a Hindu nose stud, he said.
Five persons of Indian-origin have been honoured by Indian Overseas Congress, UK, for outstanding work in their respective fields, in a ceremony organised to mark 60 years of Indian independence in London.
NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul has asked the youth to seize the immense opportunities offered by globalisation that can benefit all nations.
Asserting that Musharraf was 'breathing his last,' Sharif said, "So why he should be supported. The end of the dictatorship is necessary and it will be ended after all."
The Lords and Commons Joint Committee on Human Rights urged the immigration minister to change the rules to ensure that they apply only to new migrants rather than the 49,000 who have already arrived under the HSMP.
"Shambo was been put down by lethal injection on Thursday night," a spokesman of the Wales Assembly government said.
Among the items found on the students' computers include a video encouraging martyrdom, a US military guide giving instructions on how to make explosive devices and a suicide bombing manual.
The byelection, which will be the first popularity test for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, is being held due to the death of 82-year-old Labour Member of Parliament Piara Singh Khabra.
Bhutto, the Pakistan Peoples Party chief, said her party's talks with the military regime had focused on a level-playing field for all political parties for holding of fair elections for transition to democracy for an empowered Parliament.
Under the new curriculum to come into force next year, schools in Britain will no longer be specifically advised to focus on Churchill, Gandhi, Hitler, Joseph Stalin or Benito Mussolini in their lessons on 20th century history.
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