Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard who is on a three-day state visit to India between October 15 and October 17 has touched down in New Delhi. Gillard will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi, and senior ministers to discuss trade and investment ties. Read more
Labour party politician and Asian MP Keith Vaz has denied that the payments into his account were suspicious. Vaz's denial comes a day after British newspaper Daily Telegraph reported that a police investigation found that approximately £500,000 deposited in his bank account were of a "suspicious nature". Read more
The UPA-led coalition’s strongest ally, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress is leaving the coalition delivering a significant blow to an already troubled UPA government. Banerjee’s exit is in protest to the FDI reforms the government announced recently as well as the fuel price hikes. Read more
The UK Parliament Clock Tower which holds the great bell -- Big Ben -- is renamed the Elizabeth Tower to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee this year. Read more
Prime Minister David Cameron has reshuffled his cabinet in the first week of September which involved changes across various departments including the Home Office. Read more
India and Pakistan have both taken several measures to improve bilateral relations. The Foreign Affairs ministers of both countries have liberalised visa rules to ease travel between the two countries, signed an MoU for cultural exchanges, and reactivated the Pakistan-India Joint Commission to boost trade. Read more
The Supreme Court of India has rejected 26/11 gunman Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab’s plea and has upheld his death sentence. Kasab, of Pakistani national, was involved in the November 26, 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai and is the only militant in the custody of the Indian police. Read more
In his statement to the Parliament on the issue of coal block allocation that has been dubbed as coalgate, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that CAG’s allegations of impropriety are without basis and unsupported by facts. Read more
Micro-blogging site Twitter has blocked six accounts posing to be representative of the Indian Prime Minister’s Office after a government warning. Read more
Breaking his silence on the continuing exodus of north-eastern people living in the southern cities, the Indian Prime Minister has said that the government is committed to bring an end to this feeling of insecurity among people from the North-East. Read more