Finance Minister P Chidambaram has urged Britain to allow Indian banks to open more branches in that country.
The government said on Thursday it will bring a legislation next month to increase foreign direct investment in insurance sector to 49 per cent from 26 per cent at present.
The group has already sent an appeal to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to intervene in the matter.
It is time to formally recognise on a more consistent and regular basis the reality of the emerging new world order, he said.
'Obviously people who know me know that I will speak my mind. I'll be very frank, the British national interest is what I and my colleagues are about.'
The 'ageing tax' is a central plank of a consultation launched by the prime minister on Monday in the face of a growing crisis over who should meet the costs for the care of the elderly. Under proposal put forward by the government, the 'ageing tax' could run alongside the existing National Insurance levy. The Labour government would prepare a green paper early next year on ways to provide adequate non-medical care for the elderly, but legislation before 2010 is unlikely.
A majority of Labour voters want Prime Minister Gordon Brown to resign and make way for a more electable alternative.
Addressing a join press conference with British PM Gordon Brown, US President Bush said that failure in Iran would send a message to the world that the US cannot be counted upon. He added that it was important to succeed in Iraq to defeat the Al Qaeda and to thwart Iran's 'ambitions' of acquiring nuclear weapons. Bush and Gordon both dismissed speculation that the relationship between the two was not as 'special' as that between Bush and former British PM Tony Blair.
The country moved to its highest level of terror alert -- critical -- after a burning car crashed into the airport.
A London-based group campaigning to save Afzal Guru, sentenced to death for the attack on Indian Parliament, plans to seek the intervention of the new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to get a reprieve for him.
Dr Singh invited Brown to visit India in the next few months, saying it will "play an important role in taking forward the partnership between the two countries that we have worked hard to build."
"Now let the work of change begin," he declared before entering 10 Downing Street, marking an end to the tumultuous decade-long Blair rule.
When President Chirac arrived in Mumbai in 1998, he declared: 'In India, France is not at the level where it should be.' Ten years later, it is still true. France has a role to play in India, but will Delhi and Paris will be bold enough to seize the occasion?
British PM Brown asked IMF and World Bank to reflect India's rising contribution to world economy.
Favouring a greater role for New Delhi in the global arena, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday backed its bid for permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council and sought expansion to G-8 to include India in it in view of the "new realities".
Brown, who has pledged to accord 'very high priority' to strengthening and deepening relations with a 'pulsating, dynamic India,' leaves for China on Thursday en route to New Delhi -- his first visit as prime minister to the country after taking over from Tony Blair in June last year.
The operation in Musa Qala is one of the largest against the Taliban since the invasion in 2001. It was launched after weeks of air strikes and probing attacks had softened up their defences and killed hundreds of their fighters.
There was a late flurry of sympathy for Goody after she wept on last night's show and made an impassioned plea that she was not racist.
In his short visit to India earlier this year, he came back even more convinced.
Big hatch, small engine, low price. Now what else do you want?
Warning that the rising economic might of India and China poses a threat to Britain's prosperity, the country's Chancellor of Exchequer Gordon Brown has asked businesses to do more to meet the growing strategic threat to their markets.
A flurry of opinion polls paint a mixed picture of Labour's popularity among British voters.
The five include Abdel Aziz Rantissi, its new leader.
Britain, which currently heads the group, is expected to make an announcement in the regard soon.
Blair's declaration that he will carry on will be a blow to Chancellor Gordon Brown.
'Life has been full of rewards, full of sadness.'
Scotland will vote on whether it will be an independent country or will remain a part of the United Kingdom on September 18. With the vote coming up next week, a look at ten famous Scots.
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban, has been reunited with her friend who was injured in the same attack in Pakistan last year.
Paul is among the wealthy who hold legal accounts in Swiss HSBC Bank.
Here are some little-known facts about Indian child activist Kailash Satyarthi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize along with Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzay
Terming slavery and child trafficking the 'biggest scandal of our times', Indian Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi pn Wednesday launched a new campaign in London to end the menace posed by the trafficking 'mafia'.
Vandals on Monday defaced a memorial to the victims of July 7, 2005 London bombings hours before survivors and relatives were to gather there to pay tributes on the ninth anniversary of the attack.
Theresa May's visit to a Bengaluru aerospace systems supplier is seen as the UK's strategy to pursue new defence deals.
Pakistani teen activist Malala Yousafzai on Friday told the United Nations that she would not be silenced by terrorist threats, as she gave her first public speech since being shot in the head by the Taliban.
Britain's first Muslim MP, Mohammed Sarwar, has renounced his British citizenship to become the governor of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province.
India strongly condemned the 'barbaric' terror attack by the Taliban on a school in Pakistan that killed 141 people, mostly children, as United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council called for perpetrators of the blood-curdling attack to be brought to justice.
The flawed response to the crisis has fed a us-vs-them mentality in which the banker, the expert, the coastal entrepreneur, the immigrant, the foreigner are all villains. The crisis was not that much of a problem; the response -- the over-reaction, the sovereign debt build-up and the lasting anger -- is the problem, says Mihir S Sharma.
The 45-year-old former human rights lawyer also becomes the first Muslim Mayor of London.
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