A 51-year-old former British soldier has been jailed for 10 months for racially abusing his women Sikh neighbours by calling them “ISIS slags” and “dirty Pakis”. Christopher Blurton was found guilty at Derby Crown Court […]
RIYADH (TIP): Simon Collis, Britain’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, has performed Haj after recently converting to Islam, it was reported on September 14. The diplomat was pictured with his wife in the traditional white garments […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain’s Prince Charles was reportedly involved in a car crash with a deer on his mother Queen Elizabeth II’s estate in Scotland, a media report said on September 156. The 67-year-old heir to […]
Britain’s former Prime Minister David Cameron has resigned his seat in the House of Commons, he told in an interview earlier this week. Cameron stepped down as prime minister in June, hours after Britain voted to […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain is to start building a wall in the northern French port of Calais to stop migrants jumping on trucks, under a deal agreed earlier this year, the interior ministry said on sept […]
India is on the path of becoming a “pivot” for high-tech world manufacturing even as global manufacturing growth is expected to remain low in 2016 due to weakened financial support for productive activities, a new […]
LONDON: Keith Vaz, a well know Indian-origin lawmaker in Britain, was today embroiled in a sex scandal after a newspaper claimed he had paid for male sex workers. The Labour MP from Leicester since 1987, who is […]
London: A 16-year-old Indian-origin boy in the UK has claimed to have found a treatment for the most deadly form of breast cancer which is unresponsive to drugs. Krtin Nithiyanandam, who moved to the UK from […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain may remain a member of the European Union (EU) until 2019, a year longer than previously estimated, a media report said on Sunday. Prime Minister Theresa May has been expected to enact […]
A 10-year-old Indian-origin girl has been crowned as Britain’s brightest child after she won a popular television quiz competition in the UK. Rhea shot ahead in Tuesday’s final of ‘Child Genius 2016’ on Channel 4 […]
DOVER (TIP): British holidaymakers spent hours sweating in their cars as 15-hour queues snaked back from the port of Dover on July 23 due to heightened entry checks by French border police. Stationary vehicles tailed […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain’s Lloyds Banking Group said it plans to eliminate 3,000 jobs and close 200 branches — the first big cuts announced since Britain voted to leave the European Union. Lloyds is expanding its […]
BERLIN (TIP): Prime Minister Theresa May made her first overseas trip as Britain’s leader on July 20 to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who will be a key figure in negotiating Britain’s exit from the […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Large US banks got a lift from the June “Brexit” vote in the second quarter, but could face long-term pain from a British retreat from the European Union. Earnings released by JPMorgan […]
Washington (TIP): Britain’s vote to exit the European Union has raised a cloud of uncertainty that could prove a headwind against the US economy, a senior Federal Reserve official said Thursday. Dennis Lockhart, president of […]
LONDON (TIP): The Bank of England kept its interest rate at 0.50 percent on Thursday, but signalled a possible August cut in response to Britain’s vote to exit the EU. At its first monetary policy […]
Three weeks after a majority of Britons voted in a referendum to leave the European Union, the British political landscape looks entirely different. David Cameron, who called the referendum, is no more the Prime Minister. […]
LONDON (TIP): In her first public remarks, June 13, the new British Prime Minister Theresa May struck a populist tone, saying she planned to continue predecessor David Cameron’s “true legacy” of social justice. The Conservative […]
British Prime Minister David Cameron is expediting his departure from 10 Downing Street, paving the way for Home Secretary Theresa May to take the reins and steer the country out of EU. Theresa May promised […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US employers added new workers at a surprisingly strong rate in June after an unnerving stall in May, delivering a fresh sign of US economic strength, the Labor Department reported Friday. The much […]
The invasion was ostensibly on the specious ground of Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction, based on conjectures and intelligent reports, in the face of men in the know pleading for patience. President Bush’s decision […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Britain’s decision to leave the European Union (EU) will trim economic growth this year and next across the 19 countries that share the euro currency, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says. The global […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain is poised to get its first woman Prime Minister in more than a quarter of a century since Margaret Thatcher as the race to succeed David Cameron after the Brexit vote narrowed […]
It was certainly a black Friday – not the kind that we are used to after thanksgiving holiday – for the stock markets. The reason for that was not some economic news but rather political […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): RBI governor Raghuram Rajan, whose three-year term comes to an end this September, pitched for a longer tenure for the central bank head, saying on June 30 that the global practice has […]
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