British lawmakers will debate the issue of press freedom and safety of protesters in India next Monday in response to an e-petition which had crossed the 100,000-signature threshold required for such a debate, the House of Commons Petitions Committee confirmed on Wednesday.
India will either have to create a system in which certain geographical areas will wind up being permanent political outsiders at the Union level or it will have to create a system in which certain votes are weighted more heavily than others, observes Mihir S Sharma.
The Royal Assent authorises Prime Minister Theresa May to invoke Article 50 to begin the country's exit negotiations from the EU.
Johnson has set his hopes for getting his snap poll bill through the Commons threshold. His latest attempt may just succeed after the Opposition Labour Party said it would back an early election in December.
David Cameron will return to Downing Street as Britain's prime minister, after an extraordinary election night in which the Tories outperformed even their own expectations and Labour and the Liberal Democrats suffered painful losses.
Ballot papers were posted out as voting opened on Monday to decide if veteran leftist Jeremy Corbyn will remain the head of UK's Opposition Labour party, amid deep divisions within the 116-year-old organisation over the leadership challenge triggered by the 'Brexit' vote in June.
May now faces the final and biggest hurdle of getting the deal approved by the UK Parliament where many MPs from her own party remain vehemently opposed to it.
Climate change is real, and we need, need, need to do something about it. That's why, on March 15, tens of thousands of students worldwide have decide to skip class to demand that elected officials act on this awful crisis. The move is inspired by 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg from Sweden, who since last August has been striking outside the Swedish parliament building. She has been boycotting classes every Friday, demanding that her government step up the fight against climate change. Her message is simple: "Strike for climate". Take a look at the marches across the world.
Here's what you must know in the lead-up to the biggest political event of the past five years, and why it matters
There will be a House of Commons vote on Wednesday on the proposed election and May will need Parliament's backing to hold a vote before 2020.
Trump said she probably found this advice "too tough".
The UK voted to leave the EU by 52 to 48 per cent in Thursday's referendum but the majority of voters in London, Scotland and Northern Ireland backed the Remain side in a 72 per cent turnout.
England and Scotland are planning to defy a FIFA ban on players wearing poppies during their World Cup qualifier on November 11, their Football Associations said on Wednesday.
Britain is due to leave the European Union by October 31, with Johnson racing against time to strike a deal to meet that deadline.
The Conservative Party will form a minority government with the support of the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland
Her speech was laced with Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit and even Tamil verses.
Black will be the youngest MP since 13-year-old Christopher Monckton won in 1667 when she takes her seat at Westminster later this month.
Polling began on Thursday in the United Kingdom in one of the closest general elections seen in decades.
It would be the biggest Conservative victory since 1987, the poll suggests.
Millions voted in the United Kingdom on Thursday in the country's closest polls in decades as Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party and opposition Labour were locked in a dead heat electoral battle with migrant voters, including the Indian diaspora, expected to be the deciding factor.
Their warning came on the last official day of campaigning before polling booths open at 7 am local time on Thursday with the final result expected early on Friday.
'None of his grandparents, and only one of his parents, was born in the US or spoke English as their mother tongue.' 'Of his three wives, one was born in Czechoslovakia and one in Slovenia.' 'Where would Trump have been if they, too, had 'rejected the ideology of globalism and embraced the doctrine of patriotism'?' asks Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field.
The final pre-poll survey done by Comres for the Independent newspaper gives the Tories a 10-point lead over the Labour party.
Heineken could call a shareholder meeting to vote on his ouster from a company his father built into a family empire
'I would recommend every young Indian reads Shashi Tharoor's book to get a perspective of our colonial past in the present day mesmerising euphoria of the global village in spite of Donald Trump, says Shivanand Kanavi.
The United Kingdom has voted by 51.9 per cent to 48.1 per cent to leave the European Union after 43 years in an historic referendum.
Terrorism struck at the heart of London after a vehicle veered off the road and mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge and witnesses described men with large knives stabbing passersby at nearby Borough Market.
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