The UK government has launched a pilot scheme offering universities a range of specialist immigration services such as helping them check whether or not a potential student is eligible to come to the UK. 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
UK Border Agency officers have arrested eight illegal Indian workers and caught three more Indian men after an unannounced raid in two factories in West Midlands on August 15, India's Independence day. Read more
The UK’s HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has published photographs of Britain’s “most wanted” tax fugitives online for the first time. The list of tax criminals features an Indian, UK Pakistanis, UK Tunisian and Ukrainian among others. Read more
India's first multilateral social science research project launched
The Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR, India) has collaborated with the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK) and three other European research organisations to launch India’s first multilateral social science research project. Read more
Despite reassurances from Indian Home Secretary RK Singh, as many as four thousand people from Assam, India’s north-eastern state, have fled from the southern city of Bangalore amid fears that they will be targeted in ethnic and religious attacks. Read more
UK Indian entrepreneurs Alok Mathur and Melvin D’Souza are men with a mission – they want the Indian wine industry to make it big on the international stage, just like the Indian curry industry. Read more
On India’s Independence Day, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised economic growth, transparency, inflation control and improvements in poverty and education but did not provide the government’s strategy to overcome these challenges. Read more
Capita IT's plans to offshore work to India irks staff, trade union
IT workers at computer services firm Capita have voted for strike action over work being sent to India as well as for a compulsory redundancy plan. Unite, the British trade union, has called on Capita to withdraw its offshoring plans. Read more
Union minister for Science and Technology and former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has passed away on Tuesday, August 14 in Chennai. Deshmukh was 67. Read more
