- Wednesday, April 16, 2025
LIQUOR tycoon Vijay Mallya yet again requested Indian banks to take back 100 per cent of the principal amount owed to them at the end of his three-day British High Court appeal on Thursday (13) against an extradition order to India. The 64-year-old former Kingfisher Airlines boss, wanted in India…
SCOTLAND YARD officers are preparing to hand over alleged bookie Sanjeev Chawla to their counterparts in Delhi Police by Thursday (13) to face match-fixing charges in Indian courts. The 50-year-old British national is a key accused in the match-fixing scandal involving former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje in 2000.…
By Amit Roy THE QUIP by former prime minister David Cameron that Indians living in the UK have helped to put the “Great” back into “Great Britain” may not be so far-fetched, judging by the findings of a report which focuses on some of the impressive achievements of the Indian…
By Nadeem Badshah BRITAIN'S biggest companies have been slammed for their "painfully slow" progress in meeting targets for ethnic minority directors. Ahead of the 2021 deadline, only 53 of UK's largest listed firms on the London Stock Exchange have at least one director from a BAME background. The figures, published…
Two Indian crew on board the cruise ship Diamond Princess off the Japanese coast have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the Indian Embassy in Japan said on Wednesday (12). A total of 138 Indians, including 132 crew and 6 passengers, were on board the ship. All the infected people…
THE White House has announced that the US president and First Lady Melania Trump will visit India from February 24 to 25. Trump and the First Lady will attend official engagements in the national capital and Ahmedabad, and interact with a cross-section of Indian society. The main outcome of Trump's…
A 'plastic cafe' has been set up in front of the Dahod tehsil panchayat in Dahod district, Gujarat, to provide free snacks and tea in exchange for plastic waste. This is the first such cafe in the state of Gujarat. The 'plastic cafe' has been set up as part of…
WITH a thrust on counter-terrorism operations in urban and semi-urban areas, the Indian and British armies will conduct a joint military exercise at Salisbury Plain from February 13 to February 26. This will be the fifth edition of the joint military exercise, named Ajeya Warrior-2020, which is held annually in…
A BRITISH court has ordered shutdown of a company which used Indian call centres in India to sell vitamins and healthcare supplements using “aggressive sales tactics”. The UK's Insolvency Service said on Monday (10) that it had conducted confidential investigations after receiving complaints on the business modus operandi of Young…
LIQUOR baron Vijay Mallya on Tuesday (11) appeared before the Royal Courts of Justice in London for his appeal against extradition to India, where his lawyer claimed “multiple errors” in a magistrates’ court order favouring the Indian government. The former Kingfisher Airlines boss, who remains on bail since his arrest…
