Thousands of students from India and Pakistan, however, have not been able to start their courses in British universities from September because of long delays in issuing students visas, prompting concern among vice-chancellors.
Cricket South Africa CEO Gerald Majola has said coach Mickey Arthur's resignation was not linked to disagreements over race quotas.
'Since the two successive drubbings of the Congress have rung the alarm bells about the party's future, the need to chart a new course cannot be delayed any further,' says Amulya Ganguli.
The House of Commons petitions committee has confirmed that 77,000 signatures were added fraudulently and have been removed.
'By manipulating India's electoral laws, the aim of the Modi government is to weaken democracy to such an extent that it ultimately crumbles.'
Portugal football team captain Cristiano Ronaldo has been voted as the No 1 footballer in the world overtaking Argentina skipper Lionel Messi for the top spot.
The Public Provident Fund is one of the safest and convenient modes of investment.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday that UN climate summit in Copenhagen was 'held to ransom' by a small group of countries, as his climate secretary accused China of hijacking the talks to block a legally binding treaty.
After 186 days in space on the International Space Station, it is time for European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake, American Tim Copra and Russian Yuri Malenchenko to return to Earth. But their return is fraught with danger.
The Vasundhara Raje government nominated the controversial sculptor and 11 others as the members of the governing board of Jaipur's Jawahar Kala Kendra on November 16.
A senior lawmaker from United States President Barack Obama's Democratic party has compared intelligence leaker Edward Snowden with Mahatma Gandhi, saying the controversial whistleblower was engaged in a "non-violent" act of "civil disobedience".
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Doctors at Cambridge University's Medical Research Council's cognition and brain siences unit made startling doscovery when they managed to communicate with a man who was in a coma for seven years, The Guardian reported. The doctors devised a technique to enable the 29-year old comatose patient to answer simple questions as a yes or no, through the use of a hi-tech scanner, monitoring his brain activity.
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On the eve of US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke's visit to the South Asia, The Guardian newspaper has said Pakistan is the greatest foreign policy challenge for the Barack Obama administration.
The site announced that it ran out of money.
It's been over two months since the flood waters receded, and it would seem with it so has anger against either the state government or the BJP-Sena candidates, reports Archis Mohan.
A senior Pakistani diplomat told the Guardian newspaper that the youth were "third-generation British... born, raised and taught in Britain" and UK should take "responsibility". "Sometimes for our British friends the truth is bitter. We have somehow turned out to be a whipping boy, there is a long history to that," the unnamed diplomat said.
The Attorney General said whatever is being said by this court is sent before the United Nations.
External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup, credited with expanding foreign ministry's social media outreach and handling sensitive issues deftly, was on Thursday appointed India's High Commissioner to Canada.
Many hurdles that investors could have faced after enrolling for the scheme have been removed.
"As citizens of the United Kingdom take stock of their relationship with the EU, you should be proud that the EU has helped spread British values and practices - democracy, the rule of law, open markets - across the continent and to its periphery," he wrote.
Jonas Bjorkman, the deputy coach of Andy Murray, says that he is relishing his partnership with the British ace and is happy to be a part of his team.
If a day-night format is the future of Test cricket going forward, then coloured balls will certainly have a role to play, believe the guardians of the sport -- the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). The ball was tried and tested for the first time in the country in a charity match in Mumbai on Tuesday in which India's international players like Suresh Raina, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma and Gautam Gambhir took part and tried the coloured balls.
The Marylebone Cricket Club is all set to become one of the owners of an Indian Premier League franchise, to be sold next month at a minimum base price of US $225 million, media reports said on Thursday. The Telegraph reported that the MCC, the guardians of the laws of cricket, are in negotiations to join a consortium bidding to buy one of two IPL franchises, likely to be based in Pune, Maharashtra.
The British government is under increasing pressure to order an inquiry into claims that the country's security services were covertly gathering a mass of personal data from some of the world's largest Internet firms through a US spy programme.
The film's director Danny Boyle had to fly down to India to warn the children's parents to stop demanding flash homes and cars.
Our resident cartoonist Uttam Ghosh gives us his take on a slightly more Indianised Valentine's Day. Check it out!
The 11-minute footage included a 'message' for United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron which is being read by a man in an English accent, threatening attacks in the UK.
It was a shot in the arm for thousands of protesting Iranians when the Guardian Council the religious body entrusted with overseeing the election in the country -- said the number of votes counted in about 50 cities exceeded the number of eligible voters there.
16 years after The Warrior, Asif Kapadia and Irrfan Khan will team up once again for the cinematic adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's Moth Smoke.
State television quoted Khamenei directing the Guardian Council to look into charges by Ahmadinejad's rival and pro-reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter has said that if Qatar was denied hosting rights because of the weather, the next step could be snatching rights from a nation because of arbitrary and discriminatory reasons, and he was not a party to this but moving the World Cup to winter was definitely needed.
Didier Drogba, who has so far scored 18 goals for Chelsea, could miss the club's game against Portsmouth because of an injured back.
A theory about players' initials is the latest among many coincidences that are being related to England's dramatic Ashes win over Australia. According to a report in leading British daily The Guardian, there is a pattern based on player's initials which decides who wins the Ashes.
There is not a single Australian in the side.
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