The Scotland Yard has appealed for information from members of the public on the Sunday night assault on Lt Gen K S Brar, and described the four assailants as wearing dark clothing, long black jackets and having 'long beards'.
"We are not afraid. An act of terrorism tried to silence our democracy, but today we meet as normal," May said.
Downing Street confirmed that the two senior-most United Kingdom government officials had received notification from the Metropolitan Police that they would be given "fixed penalty notices".
One of the two men being held by police over the murder of soldier Drummer Lee Rigby has been discharged from hospital and moved into custody in a south London police station, the Scotland Yard said.
Westminster magistrates' court judge Nina Tempia confirmed that Modi's extradition trial is scheduled between May 11 and 15 next year and that he must re-appear via videolink every 28 days for "call-over hearings" until the case management for the trial kicks in from February next year.
The two latest arrests were made under Operation Elveden, which is probing corrupt payments by journalists to public officials for information to be used in news stories.
Investigation into spot fixing scandal involving three Pakistan cricketers has gathered pace with London police submitting a second file of evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt will arrive in London on Tuesday to consult his legal advisers about replying to English demands that he apologise over allegations about match-fixing.
Four non-resident Indians and two Ghana citizens of Indian origin, who were charged by Scotland Yard on May 18 for allegedly trafficking an Indian woman from Hyderabad for sex, will now face trial in October.
Australia's spin legend Shane Warne and former England coach Duncan Fletcher on Thursday joined the growing clamour for life bans on Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir if they are found guilty of 'spot-fixing'.
International cricket was rocked by a match-fixing scandal on Sunday with as many as seven top Pakistani players, including captain Salman Butt, being under the scanner for their role in 'spot-fixing' in the ongoing fourth Test against England at Lord's.
In a dramatic incident, a 50-year-old man who created ruckus in central London today, after taking four people hostage in a building and threatening to blow himself up, has been arrested by Scotland Yard.
The wife of an Indian diplomat, who had reportedly sought asylum in the United Kingdom after allegedly being assaulted by her husband, has to leave the country along with her family, the British Foreign Office said on Wednesday.
Anil Verma, a senior diplomat in the Indian high commission in London, has been questioned by Scotland Yard on allegations that he assaulted his wife, but has escaped persecution due to diplomatic immunity. Verma, who is minister (Economic) in the high commission, is alleged to have attacked his wife after a heated argument in December, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday. The police were called to the couple's home in Golders Green in north-west London.
Explosive Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh has said that his body language while playing for the country is such that no bookie would dare approach him for match-fixing.
Scotland Yard might not have called him for questioning but Pakistani wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal remains under the International Cricket Council's scanner with cricket's world governing body reportedly writing to him in the wake of the 'spot-fixing' scandal.
In a sensational turn to the spot-fixing scam, the three Pakistani cricketers - Salman Butt, Mohammed Aamir and Mohammed Asif - on Saturday admitted that they took money from bookie Mazhar Majeed but came out with a bizarre defence that it was for for some sponsorship contracts.
More skeletons tumbled out on Monday in the match-fixing saga with reports saying that the first Test between England and Pakistan in the just-ended series and Pakistan and Australia in Sydney in January were also fixed.
Pushed to the wall by allegations of 'spot-fixing' in the Lord's Test, the Pakistan cricket team could find itself in more trouble as reports in London claim that the side's players also rigged the opening Test against England, which the hosts won by a massive 354 runs.
"The CBI Director should be empowered to report directly to the minister and the prime minister with exclusive powers like the Cabinet secretary and should act alone without being under the administration of the central government," the judgment further read.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) registered a case in connection with the audacious Mumbai serial attack that left over 180 people, including six Americans, dead and are helping Indian investigators in cracking codes of Internet telephony used by terrorists of Lashker-e-Taiba.
Hours after publicly announcing that he would be suing the Scotland Yard for racism, Britain's most senior Asian police officer has been asked by superiors to "shut up" and "get on" with his job. Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur went public on Thursday with a highly damaging legal action against Sir Ian Blair, accusing the Metropolitan Police chief of repeated acts of racial, religious and age discrimination.
In a development that may explain the disappearance of several Britons of Indian origin during visits to India, an investigation report on BBC says British Asians have been hiring killers in India to target their friends and family.
Officials spokesperson of the agency posted links to five videos of the incident that occurred on March 19 on its Twitter handle and urged the people to provide any information regarding the persons seen in the footage to the NIA.
Former managing editor of the News of the World, Stuart Kuttner, was on Tuesday apprehended and later released on bail, marking the 11th arrest in the phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct tabloid.
The police probing the phone-hacking issue on Tuesday arrested Stuart Kuttner, former managing editor of the now defunct News of the World tabloid of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, marking the 11th arrest in the case.
Coming hard at the suspended trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Aamir and Mohammed Asif, Pakistan's ODI and T20 captain Shahid Afridi on Sunday said they should be kept away from the dressing room in the best interest of the team.
Following the match-fixing scandal, the Pakistan cricket team looks set for further trouble after it was reported on Monday that large quantities of bank notes were found in the London hotel rooms of a few Pakistan cricketers and they could be arrested on charges of corruption.
Britain's Scotland Yard, which probed the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto, on Friday handed over a report on its findings to the Pakistani police. Officials said that the head of a three-member team of British detectives, which arrived in Islamabad on Thursday, handed over the report to senior Pakistani police officials.
The Scotland Yard team spent a little more than two weeks in the country, during which the they visited the site at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi where Bhutto was attacked, reviewed forensic and technical evidence and questioned eyewitnesses and doctors who treated her. They also reconstructed the attack on Bhutto several times.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has ruled out any possibility of rigging in the upcoming general elections and said his government has made "fool-proof" arrangements to put Pakistan on the path to "true democracy".
The total cost of hosting the crucial G20 summit in London's Docklands on April 2, at which global recession will be the main topic, may be about pound 50 million, including pound 10 million for security.
A senior officer of the Bangladesh Rifles, identified as the "ring leader" of the bloody rebellion, has been arrested and a massive manhunt was underway to track down about 1,000 fugitive soldiers facing murder charges.
A key suspect in the 1993 Surat bombing, hunted by police worldwide for over 17 years, was arrested from a north England grocery store and a London city court will decide over his extradition to India. 49-year-old Mohammed Hanif Umerji Patel alias Tiger Hanif was traced to the grocery store in Bolton by Scotland Yard and later arrested from a house in Astley Street in Halliwell on February 16, a spokesman of the Metropolitan Police said on Wednesday.
With the assistance of western investigating agencies including FBI and Scotland Yard, Indian investigators have found that the account was purchased on a fake identity card in Karachi and the payment of $300 (about Rs 15,000) was routed through a prominent money transfer service, official sources said.
A CBI spokesperson said Interpol India had received information from Interpol London to this effect in which Scotland Yard had denied reports suggesting Sheikh's detention at Heathrow airport
Tarique Ghaffur, assistant commissioner of police, who is at the centre of a row following his accusation that he has been racially discriminated by Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair, has been stripped of his duties and put on gardening leave, the Scotland Yard said.
According to the sources, the National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit of New Scotland Yard began investigations against Salim Mohammed Ghaus Sheikh following a 'suspicious account' report given by the Citibank group.The UK probe agency came to know from newspapers that Ghaus was a wanted by CBI in Ghutka case. The Citibank reported to the British authorities about suspicious transaction of Rs 19 crore of Ghaus.CBI was immediately approached by the New Scotland yard.
They are the third and fourth people to be charged with the murder of Nisha, 29, who was stabbed outside her home in Wembley last May
Cash used in the 150,000-pound Lord's Test betting scandal has been reportedly found in the belongings of Pakistan skipper Salman Butt.
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