The keenly-contested presidential polls in Sri Lanka did not 'fully meet' key benchmarks for democratic elections and the arrest of opposition candidate Sarath Fonseka has increased tension in the country, according to a Commonwealth report.
A top court in the UK has ruled in favour of an Indian businessman that he can continue his claim of damages for $330 million against HSBC, which had refused to transfer money in his account to another bank on suspicion of money laundering.
"I have to come through the political process, through the process of elections. But I think it's very good - it's very good because I think I will have that legitimacy which I never had."
Bt brinjal is a genetically-modified vegetable which is infused with Cry1Ac gene from a bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis to make the plant resistant to the fruit and shoot borers and certain pests.
Business leaders warned that closing the offices to save money would send out the wrong signals to potential investors.
Liverpool is presently owned by American duo George Gillett and Tom Hicks, who acquired the club in February 2007.
Items to be stocked include furniture, chocolates, leather goods, fruit pickles and sushi.
India and the United Kingdom have agreed on the text of a landmark civil nuclear agreement and a formal pact may be signed within a week, Britain's Business Secretary Lord Peter Mandelson announced on Thursday. "The civil nuclear deal text has been agreed to and it will be signed soon, may be within a week after ministerial approvals," Lord Mandelson told a joint press conference with Commerce Minister Anand Sharma.
The Department for International Development-funded programme will support India's flagship Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission programme.
Unfazed by Shiv Sena's attack on him, Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan had a dig at the party and stuck to his stand of pitching for inclusion of Pakistani cricketers in Indian Premier League.
Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan found it difficult to buy an iPhone from British mobile service provider O2 for the simple reason that he spelt his first name as 'Venki' in the application form, a bizzare case that has led him to suspect an element of racism.
"We are all Indians first. Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi belong to all Indians. That is the reality," he said on Tuesday during a panel discussion at the London School of Economics organised to release Rajya Sabha MP N K Singh's book, Not by Reason Alone: The Politics of Change.
Hosted by LSE's India Observatory, the event included release of Rajya Sabha MP and economist N K Singh's book Not by Reason Alone: The Politics of Change by Shobhana Bhartia, chairman of HT Media, and an engaging panel discussion and interaction with students.
Paying tributes on the eve of the 60th anniversary of India's Republic Day, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said Britain will not be the same 'without our strong bond with India and the enormous part played by the Indian community.'
India needs to develop a strong brand strategy now to benefit from its growing importance in the global economy, according to a senior academic at the University of Oxford.
Tesco already has presence in India through a joint venture with Tatas. These stores are located in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad and Chennai. Greg said, 'we see a huge opportunity for future growth in India'.
The Indian community in Britain on Sunday mourned the death of Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu, with leading NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul saying that the veteran leader was the 'great prime minister India never had'. "In Basu, we have lost a great son of Bengal, a great Indian and for me a great friend and a great prime minister India never had," Lord Paul said in his heartfelt condolences.
The Joint Committee on National Security Strategy has now been formerly moved in the House of Commons and will be meeting informally before the end of this month.
Britain on Tuesday summoned the Chinese ambassador in London to the Foreign Office to protest the execution of a man of Pakistani-British decent convicted for drug smuggling, despite making 27 representations to China on the issue, including a last-minute appeal by Premier Gordon Brown.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday that UN climate summit in Copenhagen was 'held to ransom' by a small group of countries, as his climate secretary accused China of hijacking the talks to block a legally binding treaty.
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