Britain Aid To India

The figure of '45 trillion' first came to limelight after a research done by economist Utsa Patnaik claimed that Britain drained a total of nearly $45 trillion from India during the period 1765 to 1938.

Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Tuesday promised to provide more money to help people cope with soaring household energy bills if he is elected Britain's Prime Minister next month.

Britain announced Wednesday it was sending three oxygen generation units to Covid-struck India following a first consignment of aid this week, but said it had no spare vaccines to offer.

Vital medical supplies began to reach India on Tuesday as hospitals starved of life-saving oxygen and beds turned away coronavirus patients, and a surge in infections pushed the death toll towards 200,000.

Some of Britain's lawmakers from the ruling Conservative party on Monday questioned the British government's financial assistance programme for India, which will involve 52 million pounds for 2018-19 and 46 million pounds for 2019-20.

India's most-wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim owns a number of hotels, mansions and houses in London and elsewhere in UK, 'The Times' in a report said quoting data from Indian dossier to records held by Companies House and the Land Registry, as well as the Panama Papers.

The British government is set to cut millions of pounds in aid to India by the end of this year as the two countries develop "a new kind of relationship" centered around "technical assistance", an official said on Friday.

Cipla Ltd, India's fourth-largest drug maker by revenue, expects sales from its respiratory drug portfolio to more than double by 2020 and remains on track to launch a keenly awaited inhaler in Britain, its chief executive said.

Britain's Nepalese community will hold prayers at London's iconic Trafalgar Square for those affected in the devastating earthquake which has killed over 4,000 people in Nepal.

Against the backdrop of the UK announcing its decision to halt all aid to India in 2015, the US has said it has no plans to follow Britain's lead, though its assistance to New Delhi has dropped by over 25 per cent since 2010.

Against the backdrop of the UK announcing its decision to halt all aid to India in 2015, the US has said it has no plans to follow Britain's lead, though its assistance to New Delhi has dropped by over 25 per cent since 2010.

Britain will stop giving financial aid to India by 2015, the government said on Friday, marking a shift in ties between the one-time imperial power and its fast-growing former colony.

Britain will stop all aid to India in 2015 and the assistance budget will be reduced by around £200 million ($320 million) a year until then, the international development minister said Friday.

Prime Minister David Cameron has re-affirmed Britain's decision to continue its aid programme to India, amidst a row sparked by some ruling Conservative MPs demanding an end to it, and reports that India did not need it. The Prime Minister's spokesman said: "We have reviewed our aid commitments to India. We continue to think it is right to stick to...

The clamour to stop the aid reached a new high when India last week decided to prefer the French fighter jet Dassault Rafale to the Typhoon, which is partly manufactured in Britain. The debate was passionately renewed with two major British newspapers reporting that Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had stated in the Rajya Sabha last August that In...

The figure of '45 trillion' first came to limelight after a research done by economist Utsa Patnaik claimed that Britain drained a total of nearly $45 trillion from India during the period 1765 to 1938.

Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Tuesday promised to provide more money to help people cope with soaring household energy bills if he is elected Britain's Prime Minister next month.

Britain announced Wednesday it was sending three oxygen generation units to Covid-struck India following a first consignment of aid this week, but said it had no spare vaccines to offer.

Vital medical supplies began to reach India on Tuesday as hospitals starved of life-saving oxygen and beds turned away coronavirus patients, and a surge in infections pushed the death toll towards 200,000.

Some of Britain's lawmakers from the ruling Conservative party on Monday questioned the British government's financial assistance programme for India, which will involve 52 million pounds for 2018-19 and 46 million pounds for 2019-20.

India's most-wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim owns a number of hotels, mansions and houses in London and elsewhere in UK, 'The Times' in a report said quoting data from Indian dossier to records held by Companies House and the Land Registry, as well as the Panama Papers.

The British government is set to cut millions of pounds in aid to India by the end of this year as the two countries develop "a new kind of relationship" centered around "technical assistance", an official said on Friday.

Cipla Ltd, India's fourth-largest drug maker by revenue, expects sales from its respiratory drug portfolio to more than double by 2020 and remains on track to launch a keenly awaited inhaler in Britain, its chief executive said.

Britain's Nepalese community will hold prayers at London's iconic Trafalgar Square for those affected in the devastating earthquake which has killed over 4,000 people in Nepal.

Against the backdrop of the UK announcing its decision to halt all aid to India in 2015, the US has said it has no plans to follow Britain's lead, though its assistance to New Delhi has dropped by over 25 per cent since 2010.

Against the backdrop of the UK announcing its decision to halt all aid to India in 2015, the US has said it has no plans to follow Britain's lead, though its assistance to New Delhi has dropped by over 25 per cent since 2010.

Britain will stop giving financial aid to India by 2015, the government said on Friday, marking a shift in ties between the one-time imperial power and its fast-growing former colony.

Britain will stop all aid to India in 2015 and the assistance budget will be reduced by around £200 million ($320 million) a year until then, the international development minister said Friday.

Prime Minister David Cameron has re-affirmed Britain's decision to continue its aid programme to India, amidst a row sparked by some ruling Conservative MPs demanding an end to it, and reports that India did not need it. The Prime Minister's spokesman said: "We have reviewed our aid commitments to India. We continue to think it is right to stick to...

The clamour to stop the aid reached a new high when India last week decided to prefer the French fighter jet Dassault Rafale to the Typhoon, which is partly manufactured in Britain. The debate was passionately renewed with two major British newspapers reporting that Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had stated in the Rajya Sabha last August that In...