A hectic schedule awaits Singh who leaves on the eight-day trip on September 19 with a stopover at London where he will meet British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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.
The blast was reported at the Liverpool train station and the London fire brigade was rushed to the spot.\n\nTelevision reports said a second blast ripped through a bus in Central London.
The explosions came as Bush and Blair were meeting over breakfast and answering questions from reporters.
This will give the opposition another opportunity to question his use of "seriously flawed" intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
The Pakistani president claimed 'there is no proof' of terrorist activity.
The National Security Adviser during his visit to the US had an unscheduled substantive meeting with US President George W Bush.
The blasts caused minor damage to four branches of HSBC bank in Ankara and Istanbul.
They will try to reassure Iraqis that the West condemned torture of Iraqi prisoners.
The England and Wales cricket board (ECB) has been in a political battle with the government and the ICC over the tour.
Britain intends to raise the number of scholarships offered to Indians under the Chevening programme to 3,000 a year from the present 130, its Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Saturday.
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.
The team of weapons inspectors sent in by Washington and London at the end of the war to comb Iraq has admitted in its final report that there were no stockpiles.
The former BBC director general has accused PM of trying to force the corporation to change its tone of coverage of the Iraq war and the issue of WMD.
'Life has been full of rewards, full of sadness.'
A giant effigy of embattled FIFA president Sepp Blatter will be set alight as part of the Bonfire Night celebrations of a small English town.
Nelson Mandela, the hero of South Africa's struggle to end apartheid and establish democracy, is being honoured in a new visitor attraction on London's South Bank. Mandela: The Official Exhibition traces the story of the 20th century's most iconic freedom fighter and political leader through previously unseen film clips and photographs. It includes artefacts such as one of his hand-printed batik shirts and the ceremonial headdress awarded to Mandela upon his release from prison in 1990. The exhibition is designed to tour the world: after closing in London in June it will go to Paris. Here's a glimpse of what you can expect at the exhibit.
A 26-year-old terror suspect currently under trial may have been planning an attack in the UK similar to the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks a British court was informed on Tuesday.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Friday that India and China are going through a 'particularly bad patch' in their ties because Beijing has taken a set of actions in violation of agreements for which it still doesn't have a 'credible explanation' and it is for the Chinese leadership to answer where they want to take the bilateral relationship.
Bilateral cricketing ties between them have remained suspended since 2008 and relations further soured in February this year after a suicide car bombing that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police in Pulwana district in South Kashmir.
Bury, one of English football's oldest clubs, were expelled from the Football League (EFL) on Tuesday after failing to resolve their financial problems or find a new buyer, the EFL said in a statement.
'Seen in the context of world turmoil in face of the pandemic and the Chinese 'miracle' of being the only country in the world to control it, this is not merely a 'Sputnik' moment, but a 'Sputnik Plus' moment,' argues Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
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During his last visit to India, Khosla had said the focus of Khosla Labs would be to fund innovations around Aadhaar.
It was amusing to hear Minister Jaishankar's argument of tech companies being influential non-State actors. If only he looked at his own party before saying what he did, notes Shyam G Menon.
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