A British woman stranded in inclement weather conditions at Padam Valley in Zanskar ranges of Ladakh was on Wednesday rescued by a Leh-based helicopter unit of the Indian Air Force.
British national Kiaran Stapleton was found guilty of the murder of an Indian student Anuj Bidve on December 26.
Allan Johan Water was booked for child sexual abuse by the Colaba police in south Mumbai in 2001 along with another British national Duncan Grant.
A former British envoy has deposed before a special court through video conferencing in connection with a post-Godhra riot case, where four persons, including three British nationals, were killed in Sabarkantha district.
The UK has banned Indian Mujahideen, citing the "indiscriminate mass casualty attacks" carried out by the Lashkar-e-Tayiba-linked terror group in India and the threat it posed to British nationals there.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter has said he "would die" if he saw another World Cup blunder such as Frank Lampard's disallowed goal for England against Germany in South Africa in 2010.
The body of a British employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross, who was kidnapped in January, was found by police in Quetta city of southwest Pakistan on Sunday.
Vectra chairman Ravinder Rishi was on Monday questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with alleged irregularities in the supply Tatra all-terrain trucks as it prepares to quiz the BEML Chairman V R S Natarajan on Tuesday.
China has suspended Bo Xilai, a top politician who was once regarded as the rising star in the ruling Communist Party of China hierarchy, from all party posts and also detained his wife over the suspected murder of a British national.
Citing the complaint, the Bharatiya Janata Party said in New Delhi asked Gandhi to come clean on the matter.
Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has issued a public apology following his eight-match ban for racially abusing Patrice Evra, but the Uruguayan has not said sorry to the Manchester United defender.
The Sri Lankan police has arrested a British national for allegedly providing "false video footage" to a British TV channel to produce a documentary that accused Lankan troops of war crimes. The Channel 4 documentary 'Sri Lanka's Killing Fields' was slammed by the government, which said it was false and doctored. A Colombo court on Friday allowed the CID to detain and interrogate the Briton of Sri Lankan-origin -- Kandanam Jegadishwaram -- in connection with the case.
Irom Sharmila, the woman who was on a hunger strike for 16 years, leads a quiet life, and recently became a mother of twin girls.
May told the House of Commons that the UK remained in regular contact with both countries and was working towards de-escalating tensions.
The action against the two journalists came as a privately-owned television station in the Maldives went off the air, citing threats during the country's current state of emergency.
Australian and English swimmers are complaining of illness at the Delhi Commonwealth Games and the reason might be "contaminated" water in the pool.
Officials said the agency seized a number of documents during the searches from the premises of the firms and entities brought under the action as they were 'connected'.
Two British nationals were detained in New Delhi for allegedly recording the conversation between pilots and Air Traffic Control prompting government to explore the possibility of booking the duo under a suitable law.When confronted about the recording, the sources said, the duo told interrogators that it was their hobby which is known as "plane spotting".
The HC judge in a letter to the Centre said it would be a good deterrent in wake of increasing crimes against minors.
A British national of Serbian origin, who had 10,000 hours of flying experience and had been operating in India for the last two years, commandeered the Air India aircraft, which crashed at Mangalore airport on Saturday.
Two British nationals were detained by security agencies at a five star hotel near the Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi after they were believed to be indulging in 'suspicious' activities, police said today.
Britain expelled a senior Israeli diplomat on Tuesday, amid a diplomatic row with Tel Aviv over the cloning of UK passports to plot the assassination of a top Hamas militant by suspected Mossad agents.
The home ministry's notice to Gandhi was sent in response to a complaint filed by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy.
An inquiry by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has been ordered into the Mangalore air crash and an Air India team will assist it in the probe, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said today.
Disgraced former Communist Party leader Bo Xilai was Thursday charged with bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power by prosecutors in China's eastern Shandong Province.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has appointed former Pakistan off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq as a spin consultant to the national cricket team for its upcoming tour of India. Saqlain will reach India on November 1 and remain with the English team for 15 days, helping them prepare for a Test series, which is expected to be played on spin friendly pitches. The five-Test series is starting on November 9.
The last unnamed member of the so-called Islamic State 'Beatles' gang was on Tuesday identified as a 27-year-old from west London.
43-year-old Pankesh Patel, managing director of a UK firm that acts as a sales agent for companies in law enforcement and military products industries, and two more Britons --David Painter (56) and Lee Wares (43)-- were among 22 people arrested, the US Department of Justice said. Wares is the chairman and director of a British company that markets armoured vehicles.
Formula One's governing body is to investigate an incident that saw cars cleared to race while a marshal was still on track following a Singapore Grand Prix safety car period on Sunday.
The men in custody had accumulated rocket-launchers, hand grenades and explosives for the attacks, a private TV channel reported.
A 32-year-old US-returned engineering graduate was arrested in Hyderabad when he was allegedly on his way to Dubai to join the Middle East terror group Islamic State, the Cyberabad police claimed on Friday.
The ED, in its chargesheet filed against Michel in June 2016, had alleged that he received 30 million (about Rs 225 crore) from AgustaWestland.
Six years to the day after a woman in filmmaker Kaizad Gustad's film unit was run over by a local train during a shoot, the director has been found guilty of negligence and has been sentenced to a month in jail.
Less than a year after he was shot in the chest and both his legs in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, Harnish Patel pulled out a personal miracle by completing the London Duathlon.
The Central Bureau of Investigation will soon approach United Arab Emirates authorities seeking extradition of British national and alleged middleman Christian Michel James in connection with its probe in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP choppers deal.
India's 16-member squad for Rio Olympics was announced on Tuesday in New Delhi. Goalkeeper PR Sreejesh will lead the side with SV Sunil as the vice captain.
A 26-year-old British national, who is a dancer and works in Bollywood movies, was allegedly molested by a salesman when she and her two female compatriots, boarded an auto rickshaw in Mumbai's suburban Oshiwara on Monday.
The United Kingdom will investigate the reports claiming two of the eight terrorists arrested in the Mumbai terror attack are British nationals.A nine-member team from Scotland Yard has left for Mumbai to probe the British links of the arrested terrorists. Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh had told a TV channel on Friday that two arrested terrorists were 'British citizens of Pakistani origin'.
Indian squash hierarchy will be put to the test in the semi-finals of the Granite Open when the country's top two players Dipika Pallikal and Joshana Chinappa.
"I want to know from the Congress as to why it is agitated and telling lies repeatedly. Is it because there is no Quattrocchi mama or Christian Michel in defence deals done by the BJP government," Modi said.
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