A senior retired bureaucrat met Ranjan Mathai, then deputy high commissioner in London, and asked him casually where he was going to settle down after retirement. Mathai was frank. He didn't have a......
The body of India's most acclaimed painter Maqbool Fida Husain was on Friday laid to rest with full Muslim religious rites at Brookwood cemetery in Britain, honouring his last wishes. Husain was......
National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon and Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, both former ambassadors to Beijing, prevailed over the dominant view of the Karmapa, Ugyen Trinley Dorjee, being a......
President Pratibha Patil has said that bringing back Mahatma Gandhi''s memorabilia to India would be the most exciting occasion of her visit to the United Kingdom. The memorabilia includes signed......
For the first time, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Friday celebrated Diwali at 10 Downing Street, as the Labour leader and his wife lit a lamp placed amid idols of Lord Rama, Krishna from......
The protocol signed by India and Switzerland to amend their existing Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement so as to facilitate information sharing on black money stashed away in Swiss banks may come......
Britain is strongly committed to building a strategic relationship with India, which has transformed considerably over the last decade, Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and......
India has entered into a pact with the British Virgin Islands for exchange of information to check tax evasion and money laundering.This is the third Tax Information Exchange Agreement - as it is......
President Pratibha Patil began her first State visit to the United Kingdom by meeting prominent Indian-origin people, including Nobel Laureate V Ramakrishnan, and asked them to join in the......
India on Tuesday said that the European Union must liberalise its visa regime to allow free flow of businessmen and skilled professionals from the country to the continent and was looking forward......
A look at the week's hits and misses. Wazir did average business at the box office while the other release Chauranga was a flop. Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the latest box office......
Critically acclaimed Kannadadirector Girish Kasaravalli who has won many national and international laurels has added onemore feather to his cap. He has just received the South Asian Cinema......
Members of the Indian cricket team skipped a reception that was to be hosted by Indian High Commissioner Nalin Surie on July 18 to attend a fund raising event for the Sakshi Foundation, which is......
The Centre on Tuesday directed Suresh Kalmadi, convener of the Commonwealth Games, to relieve immediately T S Darbari and Dr Sanjay Mahindroo, senior officials holding high positions in the CWG......