Rahul Gandhi, who was tipped as the prime ministerial candidate from Congress party for 2014 Lok Sabha elections, got one step closer to it on Saturday, January 19 when he was appointed the vice president of Congress - the second biggest role within the party. Read more
India has accused neighbour Pakistan of crossing the Line of Control (LOC) and killing two of its soldiers in the region’s most tense and disputed territory – Kashmir . India has also summoned Pakistan High Commissioner to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs to complain about the attack. Read more
BJP leader Narendra Modi has secured a thumping victory in the Gujarat state election to become its chief minister for the fourth consecutive term. Modi, the representative of BJP for Gujarat, won 115 seats out of the 186 assembly seats, making it a landslide victory for the Hindu nationalist politician. Read more
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, is set to visit India in the last week of November along with a group of London business leaders. He will visit capital city Delhi, financial capital and Bollywood hometown Mumbai as well as emerging IT hub Hyderabad as part of his India trip. Read more
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has congratulated US President Barack Obama on his re-election. Singh told Obama that the president’s re-election has given both countries opportunities to carry forward the bilateral partnership of the last few years. Read more
British government’s Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State, William Hague is in the Indian capital city of New Delhi on Thursday, November 8 to strengthen UK-India ties. Read more
In a bid to boost its public support amid corruption allegations against ministers as well as to defend its unpopular economic reforms such as the recent FDI reforms, prominent Congress party members held a mass rally in New Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan on Sunday, November 4. Read more
In its bid to clampdown on the increasing number of tax evaders as well as to curb the circulation of black money in the country, India has signed a pact with the UK to exchange information between tax authorities of both the countries. Read more
Indian government’s foreign minister SM Krishna, who played a big role in improving India and Pakistan’s bilateral relations in the recent months, has resigned ahead of the cabinet reshuffle on Sunday, according to reports.
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The UK has ended its boycott of controversial Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, ten years after the 2002 religious violence in Gujarat which killed over 1000 people. The British High Commissioner to India, James Bevan, met Modi on Monday, October 22 marking UK’s first meeting with the leader in a decade. Read more
