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'Brexit' can open up opportunities for India: Report
May 15, 2016, 05:26 PM ISTAn exit of Britain from the European Union, referred to as 'Brexit', will create a lot of uncertainty within Europe, but can open up opportunities for India
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‘Chinese officials very rude’: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II caught on camera
World | May 11, 2016, 04:50 PM ISTBritian’s Queen Elizabeth II has been overheard on video calling Chinese officials "very rude" in a conversation with a senior police officer at a Buckingham Palace event.
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'David Cameron won't say sorry for calling Trump stupid, divisive'
World | May 05, 2016, 04:27 PM ISTLondon: British Prime Minister David Cameron will not apologize to US presidential hopeful Donald Trump for calling him “divisive, stupid, and wrong”, a spokesperson for 10 Downing Street has said. Cameron made the comments after
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Indian-origin Siddhartha Dhar a senior commander of ISIS: Report
World | May 02, 2016, 03:56 PM ISTLondon: Indian-origin Islamic State terrorist from Britain Siddhartha Dhar, dubbed as the “New Jihadi John”, is a senior commander of the dreaded outfit, according to a media report. Nihad Barakat, a Yazidi teenager held as
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We cannot continue to bleed, find a buyer soon, Tata Steel CEO tells UK MPs
Apr 29, 2016, 07:34 AM ISTTata Steel UK's chief executive Bimlendra Jha has told a British Parliamentary Committee that the Indian conglomerate ‘cannot continue to bleed’ from its loss making steel units in the country and that the British government needs to do more to help
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Indebted Vijay Mallya lives in a mansion worth $15 million in Britain
Apr 25, 2016, 04:17 PM ISTLondon: Indian liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who owes Rs 9,000 crores to various banks in the country, has been living in a $15 million mansion in England's Hertfordshire county, The Sunday Times reported. The mansion
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Panama Leaks: David Cameron admits he benefited from father’s offshore holdings
World | Apr 08, 2016, 07:21 AM ISTAfter days of pressure following publication Panama Papers, British Prime Minister David Cameron has acknowledged that he had a stake in his father’s offshore trust but says he sold it in 2010 before he became country’s Premier.
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Junior medicos in Britain strike work for 3rd time since last month
World | Mar 09, 2016, 09:31 PM ISTJunior medicos in Britain strike work for 3rd time since last month
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France, Germany, Britain warn on Syria peace talks
World | Mar 04, 2016, 09:32 PM ISTParis: Top diplomats in France, Germany and Britain on Friday warned that Syrian peace talks would fail unless humanitarian aid was granted and a ceasefire respected."We wish for rapid resumption of negotiations in Geneva. But two
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12 Pak rapists, a minor victim and the ugly truth of UK's Asian gangs
World | Feb 13, 2016, 08:55 PM ISTNew Delhi: In a shocking incident, 12 men of Pakistani origin have been held guilty of the rape and abuse of a 13-year-old minor girl in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. The crime was not one-off
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Lahore High Court admits petition to bring Kohinoor from UK to Pakistan
World | Feb 09, 2016, 02:59 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Lahore High Court has accepted a petition calling for the British Queen to hand over the Kohinoor diamond, the world famous precious stone which India has been trying to get from the
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Number of online dating rape soars sixfold in Britain
World | Feb 07, 2016, 02:33 PM ISTLondon: The number of people reporting being raped by someone they met on a dating app or website has risen six-fold in five years in Britain, official figures revealed on Sunday.There were 184 rape allegations
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Julian Assange detained arbitrarily, should be freed, rules UN panel
World | Feb 05, 2016, 08:57 PM ISTGeneva: A human rights panel of the United Nations has said that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been “arbitrarily detained” by U.K. and Sweden since December 2010 and he should be freed and compensated.The U.N.
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Britain financial sanctions list confirm Dawood Ibrahim is in Pakistan
World | Feb 03, 2016, 08:53 AM ISTLondon: Britain has updated its list of financial sanctions that includes underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's name and a few Sikh terror groups.The UK Treasury department's 'Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets', updated on January 27,
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Tareena Shakil: First British woman found guilty of joining ISIS
World | Jan 30, 2016, 11:10 AM ISTLondon: A British woman has been found guilty of taking her 14-motn-old son to join the Islamic State group, becoming the first woman to be convicted of the offense after returning to the UK from
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Muslim women must learn English or face deportation, says British PM
World | Jan 19, 2016, 12:25 PM ISTLondon: British Prime Minister David Cameron has said that Muslim women must learn English language to integrate better into the society and suggested some migrants who cannot pass an English test within 2-1/2 years of
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Britain's intelligence services tried to recruit 'new Jihadi John' as double agent with ISIS
World | Jan 11, 2016, 07:47 AM ISTLondon: Britain's intelligence services had tried to recruit Indian-origin IS terror suspect Siddhartha Dhar as a double agent before he managed to flee to Syria, a media report here claimed on Sunday.Dhar, who was dubbed
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ISIS releases video showing execution of 5 men 'accused of spying' for Britain
World | Jan 04, 2016, 08:11 AM ISTNew Delhi: Militant outfit Islamic State has released a new video showing the killing of five men 'accused of spying' for Britain in Syria.The footage bore the markings of the ISIS media wing, and shows
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British Asian teenage girl thrown off bus for too much makeup
World | Dec 30, 2015, 12:03 AM ISTLondon: British Asian teenage girl was thrown off a bus by a woman conductor for 'wearing too much make-up' to have a child's ticket, according to a media report.Zahra Sadiq was told by the conductor
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Britain launches airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria
World | Dec 03, 2015, 11:45 AM ISTLondon: Royal Air Force Tornado jets on Thursday carried out their first air strikes against the Islamic State (IS) in Syria, hours after MPs voted in favour of British air strikes in Syria.The MPs backed