Terror suspect Rashid Rauf, arrested by Pakistani authorities in connection with a plot to bomb airliners in Britain last year, escaped from police custody shortly after being produced in a court on Saturday.
Earlier, Rajagopal had surrendered before a local court to serve life sentence in a murder case and had been shifted to Vijaya Hospital, after the Madras high court passed an interim order on a petition filed by his son.
The properties overseas include two luxury hotels - one in New York and one in London - two residential apartments in London valued at 15 million each, and a yacht stationed in the UK. In India, Kapoor's six bungalows in Delhi's upscale localities, including Jor Bagh, Hauz Khas, and Kautilya Marg, were also identified.
A three-member Bench of the court ruled that the order by the Department of Health regarding employment of doctors on the High-Skilled Migrant Programme was not lawful, after a 16-month-long legal battle led by the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin.
Scores first in UK's 'WAGatha Christie' soccer wives' libel trial.
Perhaps the BJP will win the UP elections, but that will be a political win and will leave the problems on the ground from the economy to national security to disaffected farmers and minorities intact, asserts Aakar Patel.
A Manchester-based Indian-origin delivery van driver has been convicted of assaulting his police officer-wife, who later died of cancer, and is likely to face a jail sentence.
Abu Qatada, the radical cleric and terror suspect facing deportation to Jordan, has been denied bail by a London court due to the security challenges he might pose during the forthcoming Olympics.
The six are Ali Mustafa, Pardip Saini, Paresh Shah, Neten Shah, Bijal Shah, and Truptesh Patel. The six, who were arrested 2008, are due to be sentenced on Friday.
An Indian-origin mother who beat her son "like a dog" for not being able to memorise passages of the Quran, has been found guilty by a British court of murdering him and setting his body on fire to hide evidence.
'It would have been easy to make a small film with Tiger in a basti or an action film like Pushpa which was all mud, grunge and a repeat of what I had done before.'
A radical Muslim cleric described as Osama bin Laden's right hand man in Europe has been released by a local court in London, but has to wear a 'electronic tag'.
A 75-year-old Indian-origin Maoist cult leader was on Friday found guilty of rape, child cruelty and falsely imprisoning his daughter for 30 years by a British court.
India must learn from the missteps made by financial regulators in the US and UK.
Mallya, who flew out of India in March 2016, has been living in the United Kingdom since then.
A British court has sentenced a 23-year-old Indian man to nine years in prison for raping a teenage girl in April last year.
Three Indians have been charged with the attempted murder of Praveen Reddy, an MBA student in London, who was critically stabbed on Friday night in Newham.
The girl was rushed to a nearby hospital in Tooting where she is in a serious but not life-threatening condition, Surrey Police said.
An Indian trio -- a solicitor and his two wives -- have been jailed in London for their alleged involvement in the biggest ever visa scam in the United Kingdom. A city court on Wednesday sentenced Jatinder Kumar Sharma, 44, and his second wife Rakhi Shahi, 31, for seven and eight years respectively for running a fraud firm called Univisas, where they helped hundreds of immigrants apply for visas using bogus documents and false identities.
Auckland in New Zealand has been named the world's most liveable city.
Four non-resident Indians and two Ghana citizens of Indian origin, who were charged by Scotland Yard on May 18 for allegedly trafficking an Indian woman from Hyderabad for sex, will now face trial in October.
"There is sufficient evidence to prove prima-facie case against Kohli. The review petition filed by Kohli has no merit and we dismiss it," a Bench comprising Justice Mukul Mudgal and Justice P K Bhasin said.
Faced with prospect of its assets across the globe being seized just like Pakistan and Venezuela, the government decided to scrap retrospective taxation but the international embarrassment could have been avoided had 'attached' shares of Britain's Cairn Energy Plc not been sold, according to tax and legal experts. On Thursday, the government introduced a Bill in Parliament to scrap the tax rule that gave the tax department power to go 50 years back and slap capital gains levies wherever ownership had changed hands overseas but business assets were in India. The 2012 legislation was used to levy a cumulative of Rs 1.10 lakh crore of tax on 17 entities, including UK telecom giant Vodafone, but substantial punitive action was taken only in the case of Cairn.
A union representing British sportsmen and women has launched legal action in Switzerland to try to ensure more sympathetic treatment for athletes caught using recreational drugs.
An Indian-origin accountant was killed by her former boyfriend who stabbed her 20 times after he found out that he had been dumped, a court was toldin London. Camille Mathurasingh, 27 was knifed 20 times in the kitchen of her home in Bow, after her former boyfriend flew in from Trinidad to try to win her back, the jury was told at the Old Bailey.Paul Bristol, 24, admits manslaughter but denies murder in April 2009.
Huge success in their careers -- or divorce courts -- has made them extraordinarily wealthy.
A British court will review whether open air cremations are unlawful.
'The MEA, hopefully, made it clear that the Indian PM can't be seen in Xi Jinping's company when China has, for all intents and purposes, annexed over 1,000 sq kms of Indian territory in eastern Ladakh, and essentially that the Wuhan spirit and the Mamallapuram spirit have turned into vinegar.'
The British home secretary has granted permission for jeweller Nirav Modi's extradition to India. During their arguments in a London court, his lawyers claimed Modi suffers from mental illness and is a suicide risk if he was sent to Mumbai's Arthur Road jail. A fascinating excerpt from Danish Khan and Ruhi Khan's Escaped: True Stories Of Indian Fugitives In London.
Westminster magistrates' court judge Nina Tempia confirmed that Modi's extradition trial is scheduled between May 11 and 15 next year and that he must re-appear via videolink every 28 days for "call-over hearings" until the case management for the trial kicks in from February next year.
As lobbying and counter-lobbying intensify, right now, it looks like a T20 match, discovers Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
The bribes were paid by several international companies, including Errostaal of Germany and India's Tata as part of Abacha's 'system of systematic corruption, according to the Swiss sentencing order, a copy of which FT claims to have obtained.
'Life has been full of rewards, full of sadness.'
When the highest court gave a decision on the Navtej Singh Johar case, it held that LGBT citizens have a right to not be discriminated against on the basis of their sexual orientation. It was keeping this in mind that this same sex couple approached the Delhi high court.
An Indian origin woman who pleaded guilty to being a courier of heroin worth 50,000 pounds in Britain, has been jailed for three years.
A British socialite who was accused of indulging in obscene acts while being drunk during a Bangalore-London Kingfisher flight on March 2006, has been acquitted.
A British man went on trial on Thursday accused of screaming abuse at Usain Bolt and hurling a beer bottle onto the track as the Olympic men's 100 metres final was starting, a climactic moment of the London Games in August.
This property has all the hallmarks of being owned and occupied by Vijay Mallya. A fleet of supercars making their way down the drive, hordes of people descending to party all night long and a constant delivery of goods and services.
