"We are strongly committed to build a strategic relationship. It is happening at various levels including business to business," Cable, who was Guest of Honour at a reception hosted by the Confederation of Indian Industry at Lancaster House here said. India's High Commissioner to the UK Nalin Surie, G P Hinduja, President of the Hinduja Group, Lord Navnit Dholakia, Lord Raj Loomba were among those who attended the reception.
Underlining that India has worked to promote better ties with Pakistan, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has said that the relations with Islamabad can only grow in an atmosphere free of terror and violence.
A cash prize of 20,000 pounds each were also given to them at a ceremony held in London on Thursday night.
British Prime Minister David Cameron told the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, a donors conference in London, that the new funding arrangement would help 'vaccinate more than 80 million children against diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhoea.'
The body of India's most acclaimed painter Maqbool Fida Husain was on Friday laid to rest with full Muslim religious rites at Brookwood cemetery in Britain, honouring his last wishes.
An impressive 21st century home for students and faculty of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was opened in the US, thanks to $1 million assistance provided by Ambika Paul Foundation headed by NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul.
Tougher entrance criteria, limits on work entitlements and the closure of the post study work route are some of the changes made to the student visa system in the United Kingdom, home secretary Theresa May has said. The announcement on Wednesday follows a major public consultation on the reform of Tier Four, which is the student entry route to the UK of the points based system, after a home office review revealed widespread abuse.
A British court on Thursday ruled that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations.
Touted as underworld's biggest money launderer Tanveer Jaffery, 65, funnelled crime lords' dirtycash through banks and his 'Remittance to Pakistan' money transfer firm, which let people send funds home to Pakistan through website R2PK.com, the Daily Mirror reported.
The government on Tuesday announced that employers filling a vacancy that attracts a salary of 150,000 pounds or more will not be subject to the limit.
A decision on the extradition of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange from the UK to Sweden will be announced by a London court on February 24, even as his lawyers doubted a fair trial in the Scandinavian country.
The Indian high commission in London has issued a blow-by-blow account on the alleged wife-bashing by its senior diplomat Anil Verma, who has been transferred back to India, saying the incident was 'provoked' by a row over a Christmas tree gift. Taking a tough stand on domestic violence, the mission said in a statement, "There is no question of condoning domestic violence which is totally unacceptable."
Even as India has transferred its London-based diplomat Anil Verma, Britain disclosed that it had pressed for Verma's diplomatic immunity to be waived which was declined by government.
Neilson, managing director of NHS Shared Business Services, said millions of pounds could be saved by outsourcing more National Health Services administration to India.
Kashmiri, described by The Sunday Times as the new Osama bin Laden and one of the most dangerous men on earth, was last week named as Al-Qaeda's chief military strategist in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He has been entrusted with the responsibility of spearheading attacks in the West, and has been assigned to bring western recruits into Al Qaeda, the paper said.
The British government has warned that its citizens in Pakistan, Iraq, Iran and other parts of the Muslim world could be targeted in a violent backlash over "anti-Islamic" views expressed in diplomatic documents being leaked this week, media reports said on Sunday.
"Cargo originating from some cities in India, Qatar, Pakistan, Iran, Bangladesh, Thailand, the Maldives, Sudan and Libya will have to be re-screened after arriving in Britain before being loaded onto onward flights," Britain's Transport Secretary Philip Hammond told newsmen.
Manju Kapur's The Immigrant, Neel Mukherjee's A Life Apart and Amit Chaudhuri's The Immortals have been shortlisted for the prestigious award.
Britain's Prince William, who is second in line to the throne, has successfully undertaken his first mission as a Royal Air Force search and rescue helicopter co-pilot, lifting an ill worker from an off-shore gas rig, his office said on Tuesday.
An Al Qaeda-linked plot to launch a Mumbai-style terror attack simultaneously on London and major cities in France and Germany was disrupted by intelligence agencies, a report has said.
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