A short video released by Islamic State militants on Friday night shows the apparent beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning, with the executioner blaming the death on the United Kingdom for joining the US-led bombing campaign against the group.
The new proposals, presented to the British Parliament by Minister of State for Borders and Immigration Liam Byrne, provides for a maximum six-month stay for those visiting Britain and also has special visas for businessmen, sportsmen, members of the entertainment industry and participants in cultural events. The sponsors, who will be given identity cards, will have the duty to ensure that their visitors comply with the terms of their visas.
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.
The protestors demanded that the promises made to them under the Highly Skilled Migrants Programme be kept.
We have only thought of acquiring a nuclear deterrence capability, but we have deluded ourselves into believing that we have already accomplished it.
The balloon will welcome Trump after the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan granted permission for the 6 metre inflatable, dubbed 'Trump Baby', to rise above Parliament Square Gardens for two hours on the morning of Friday July 13.
Bhutto plans to travel by Emirates Airlines with a two-hour stop-over in Dubai before landing in Karachi on October 18
A controversial 'baby Trump' blimp is flying near British Parliament on Friday morning as hundreds descend on London to protest against the US president's controversial visit to the United Kingdom.
Asserting that "an assault on one democracy is attack on all," a prominent Labour party MP has tabled an Early Day Motion.
'Things are now changing rapidly and the US is trying to get in before there is no way to,'feels British MP Jeremy Corbyn.
Johnson suspended, or prorogued, parliament for five weeks earlier this month, saying it was to allow for a Queen's Speech to outline policies of his new government.
The 29-year-old, who has studied electrical engineering in Sudan, lived in Birmingham's Sparkhill district. He describes himself as a shop manager.
France has now over-taken the UK as India's most visited European nation
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.
Indian may manage to export mangoes to the UK this year.
Stating that India is new bright spot of hope and opportunity for the world, the prime minister said India among other things is igniting the engines of its manufacturing sector and making its farms more productive and more resilient.
Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, has triggered an online rage with his tweet after a man wielding a meat cleaver tried to enter a police station in France claiming to avenge French military action in Syria, on Thursday, a year to the day since the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday unveiled in London a statue of Basaveshwara, the 12th century Indian philosopher and social reformer, praising him for giving the world ideals of democracy much before the Magna Carta.
Scotland Yard also conceded that they may "never understand" the 52-year-old attacker's motive.
She, however, did not name a departure date at the at the ruling party's influential 1922 Committee meeting.
'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.
Rediff.com takes a look at the top quotes of Prime Minister Modi from his address to the Indian Diaspora.
'Hello Namaste' has been described as a "festive upbeat Hinglish" number which highlights the UK-India friendship.
United Kingdom will go to the polls on Thursday. This election is being dubbed the most unpredictable of all time.
Indian mango growers are suffering daily and some have been bankrupted.
Three days after she was stopped from boarding a flight to London by immigration officials, Greenpeace India activist Priya Pillai on Wednesday addressed British MPs through video conferencing and talked about the "struggle" of people of Mahan area in Madhya Pradesh.
Keith Vaz, Britain's longest-serving Indian-origin MP was on Thursday re-elected as chair of the British Parliament's influential Home Affairs Select Committee.
Seventy-seven years ago, 338,000 British soldiers were rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk, a stunning great escape which helped Britain avoid defeat in World War II.
The documents show that HSBC opened Swiss accounts for international criminals, businessmen, politicians and celebrities, according to the ICIJ.
Making a strong attack against Narendra Modi, whom he termed a "megalomaniac psychopath liar", Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh on Sunday stoked a fresh controversy saying why can the Bharatiya Janata Party not field a "better leader" like Sushma Swaraj as its prime ministerial candidate.
Rishi Sunak, Sailesh Vara and Suella Fernandes were the three new Indian-origin MPs to be inducted into the Theresa May govt.
'It would have been much more appropriate if a law such as this, which all of the civilised world has given up, was struck down through democratic politics rather than five individuals sitting in judgement,' says Aakar Patel.
A man marched past the British Parliament cloaked in an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria flag with a young girl on his shoulders brandishing the flag's smaller version.
The Scotland Yard has said an "appropriate" policing plan is in place but no restrictions have been imposed on any London routes.
Harivansh Rai died on January 18, 2003, at the age of 96.
A lunch with Queen Elizabeth II, an address to the Indian diaspora at the iconic Wembley Stadium and a "warm" interaction with his British counterpart is part of the hectic schedule of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's maiden visit to the United Kingdom next month.
The iconic monument will fall silent for four months, the longest in its 156-year life.
'Prime Minister Modi is from Gujarat and so does not understand the importance of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre to Punjabis,' says the British MP fighting for an apology for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
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