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UK Website Apologises To Pak's Shehbaz Sharif For Corruption Allegation
A prominent British publication and news site has apologised to Pakistan rime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for an "error" in an article it published in 2019 - in which it had accused the premier of "stealing British foreign aid money".
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5th Aide Quits Boris Johnson's Number 10 Over Lockdown Parties
Another aide of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has quit. This takes the total number of resignations at Downing Street to five as the embattled British premier struggles to reset his government following the "Partygate" scandal.
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India Best Suited To Decide How Covid Relief Is To Be Used: UK Envoy
British High Commissioner to India Alex Ellis on Wednesday said that the Indian government is better positioned to work out where the goods, ventilators or oxygen concentrators procured from the United Kingdom are best applied.
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UK PM Appoints Chief Of Staff After Aide's Stormy Exit
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday appointed a low-profile former Treasury official as his new chief of staff to steady the Downing Street ship after the stormy exit of his Brexiteer right-hand man.
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"We're Sponsoring Indian Moon Launch": British MPs Question Financial Aid
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.
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British Scientists On Verge Of HIV Cure, Says Report
British scientists are on the verge of confirming a treatment for HIV, an incurable virus that leads to deadly AIDS disease, if a new treatment trial proves successful, a media report claimed today.
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Indian-Origin Writer's Book On Queen Victoria To Be Made Into A Film
An Indian-origin author's book on Queen Victoria's relationship with her trusted Indian aide in the late 1800s would soon be made into a film in which Oscar-winning British actress Judi Dench will play the protagonist.
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Actor Orlando Bloom Deported, Sushma Swaraj Comes To His Aid
British actor Orlando Bloom was today deported to the UK soon after his arrival in Delhi as his E-visa had been rejected following which External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj came to his help to get a visa.
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Britain Aid to India to End This Month
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.
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Osama Bin Laden's Ex-Aide Urges British Muslims Not to Join Islamic State
A former aide of Osama bin Laden has appealed to British Muslims not to join Islamic State for the so-called jihad in Syria as he denounced the group's beheadings and mass rape as "completely against Islam".
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Indian Origin Woman From UK Stranded at Kathmandu Airport After Being Barred From Boarding Relief Flight
Even as India successfully brought home nearly 1000 people from Nepal, an Indian- origin British citizen is stranded at the Kathmandu airport after she was stopped from boarding a relief flight allegedly because she is a British Passport holder.
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Aarushi murder case: CBI court rejects Talwars' plea to send 'khukri' to England for forensic test
A CBI court trying Rajesh and Nupur Talwar for the murders of their daughter Aarushi and domestic aide Hemraj today rejected the couple's plea to send a 'khukri' to a British forensic lab for another round of DNA testing.
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India's Mars mission sparks another UK aid row
The announcement of India's Mars mission has sparked another round of tabloid-driven controversy over the wisdom of sending 280 million pounds of British aid to India every year when the country can afford such costly space programmes.
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Clamour to stop aid to India grows louder in Britain after Dassault Rafale deal
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...
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Mirchi claims charges against him in UK dropped
British prosecutors, investigating the case against Iqbal Mirchi, have dropped charges that he threatened to kill a man in the UK and has discontinued proceedings against him, the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's close aide claimed today.
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UK Website Apologises To Pak's Shehbaz Sharif For Corruption Allegation
A prominent British publication and news site has apologised to Pakistan rime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for an "error" in an article it published in 2019 - in which it had accused the premier of "stealing British foreign aid money".
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5th Aide Quits Boris Johnson's Number 10 Over Lockdown Parties
Another aide of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has quit. This takes the total number of resignations at Downing Street to five as the embattled British premier struggles to reset his government following the "Partygate" scandal.
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India Best Suited To Decide How Covid Relief Is To Be Used: UK Envoy
British High Commissioner to India Alex Ellis on Wednesday said that the Indian government is better positioned to work out where the goods, ventilators or oxygen concentrators procured from the United Kingdom are best applied.
-
UK PM Appoints Chief Of Staff After Aide's Stormy Exit
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday appointed a low-profile former Treasury official as his new chief of staff to steady the Downing Street ship after the stormy exit of his Brexiteer right-hand man.
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"We're Sponsoring Indian Moon Launch": British MPs Question Financial Aid
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.
-
British Scientists On Verge Of HIV Cure, Says Report
British scientists are on the verge of confirming a treatment for HIV, an incurable virus that leads to deadly AIDS disease, if a new treatment trial proves successful, a media report claimed today.
-
Indian-Origin Writer's Book On Queen Victoria To Be Made Into A Film
An Indian-origin author's book on Queen Victoria's relationship with her trusted Indian aide in the late 1800s would soon be made into a film in which Oscar-winning British actress Judi Dench will play the protagonist.
-
Actor Orlando Bloom Deported, Sushma Swaraj Comes To His Aid
British actor Orlando Bloom was today deported to the UK soon after his arrival in Delhi as his E-visa had been rejected following which External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj came to his help to get a visa.
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Britain Aid to India to End This Month
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.
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Osama Bin Laden's Ex-Aide Urges British Muslims Not to Join Islamic State
A former aide of Osama bin Laden has appealed to British Muslims not to join Islamic State for the so-called jihad in Syria as he denounced the group's beheadings and mass rape as "completely against Islam".
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Indian Origin Woman From UK Stranded at Kathmandu Airport After Being Barred From Boarding Relief Flight
Even as India successfully brought home nearly 1000 people from Nepal, an Indian- origin British citizen is stranded at the Kathmandu airport after she was stopped from boarding a relief flight allegedly because she is a British Passport holder.
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Aarushi murder case: CBI court rejects Talwars' plea to send 'khukri' to England for forensic test
A CBI court trying Rajesh and Nupur Talwar for the murders of their daughter Aarushi and domestic aide Hemraj today rejected the couple's plea to send a 'khukri' to a British forensic lab for another round of DNA testing.
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India's Mars mission sparks another UK aid row
The announcement of India's Mars mission has sparked another round of tabloid-driven controversy over the wisdom of sending 280 million pounds of British aid to India every year when the country can afford such costly space programmes.
-
Clamour to stop aid to India grows louder in Britain after Dassault Rafale deal
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...
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Mirchi claims charges against him in UK dropped
British prosecutors, investigating the case against Iqbal Mirchi, have dropped charges that he threatened to kill a man in the UK and has discontinued proceedings against him, the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's close aide claimed today.
