The British prime minster on the Kashmir issue, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Describing India as a new technology and economic power, Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday told his cabinet colleagues to focus on Britain's future.
India is looking to increase co-operation with the EU, of which Blair is the current president.
Blair won't contest next general elections: Report
The explosions came as Bush and Blair were meeting over breakfast and answering questions from reporters.
Video tributes will be recorded by President George W Bush, his predecessor Bill Clinton, the ex-president of South Africa Nelson Mandela, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general. \n
The new House of Commons will see a record number of 127 women members- of which 97 are from Labour Party.
The Blair model, used to turn the Labour Party's flagging fortunes around in Britain over a decade back, has come in handy for India's grand old party, which is in search of a winning formula after successive electoral defeats including in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh.
They will try to reassure Iraqis that the West condemned torture of Iraqi prisoners.
Grewal personally handed over a memorandum to Blair in this connection.
Former British prime minister Tony Blair was paid a whopping $1.5 million to advise Kuwait's royal family and had made great efforts to keep it a secret, a media report has claimed. Blair, currently the official envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East on behalf of the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia, received the amount for advising the first family of the oil-rich country and the deal was kept secret at the request of the Kuwait government.
As many as 87 public sector servants in the United Kingdom, including a leading NRI financial wizard Zarin Patel, earn more than British Prime Minister Tony Blair, according to the first 'Public Sector Rich List' released on Friday.
Lending her support to Donald Trump's leadership prowess, the Italian PM said that the Left Wing is nervous about leaders from conservative parties winning and collaborating globally.
With India and China becoming more powerful and tilting the balance to the East, it is necessary for the West to seek partnership with them instead of struggling "for hegemony" in the "new world", former British premier Tony Blair has said. "In the next two decades China and India will undergo industrialisation four times the size of the United States and at five times the speed," Blair, now a special envoy to the Middle East, told the Yale alumni.
"I have tried to do anything I can to help this situation in the past. In the end it is going to be resolved by India and Pakistan. There was a hopeful side," he said.
The US president and the British Prime Minister face massive drops in popular support.
US President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday defended the attack on Iraq and condemned the ghastly bombings on British targets in Turkey.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair wants India, along with four other developing countries, to be included in G8 for securing multilateral deals on climate change, trade and a common line on Iran.
British police have foiled a plot to abduct Prime Minister Tony Blair's five-year-old son Leo, security sources said in London Wednesday.
The mother of nineteen-year-old Gordon Gentle who died in a bomb blast in Basra claims his life could have been saved if the government had invested money in signal jamming equipment.
If Blair--who celebrates his 52nd birthday Friday-- wins Thursday's election, he would be the first Labour leader to win three successive elections.
"Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, but the fear of repressive States linking up with terrorist groups justifies robust action against any Weapons of Mass Destruction programmes, even if evidence is scanty"
The former UN weapons chief inspector accused the British prime minister of dramatising pre-war intelligence on Iraq's supposed WMDs.
He was a storyteller who made me feel the pulse of history, the stakes of human ambition, and the thrill of a well-told tale. Prem Panicker recalls his debt to Frederick Forsyth, who passed away on Monday.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair braved an assassination threat from al-Qaeda and went ahead with the plans to attend the Queen's 2002 Golden Jubilee celebrations.
Blair, however, stopped short of a full apology for the war, saying, "I find it hard to apologise for removing Saddam. I think, even from today in 2015, it is better that he's not there than that he is there."=
Prime Minister Narendra D Modi on Saturday blessed the newly wed couple Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant after their wedding that was attended by global celebrities, business tycoons and politicians.
Barring a few, such as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu (74), Union Minister C R Patil (69) and Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Suresh Khanna (71), most other ministers attending the WEF represent the next generation of India's politicians.
Cameron also said Modi has a very clear plan about technology and the future of India and his third consecutive term in office demonstrates the ability to bring real change in a consistent way.
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