London: A man, who is believed to be a stowaway, fell thousands of feet to his death from a Heathrow-bound jet liner on a car parked in a quiet residential street here. A bloodied body of the young man, who crash-landed on the car parked in the street, was found in the Heathrow flight path, police said on Monday. Horrified residents living in west London, just a few miles from...
04:02 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Glasgow: Scotland and Serbia opened their bids to qualify for the 2014 World Cup with a 0-0 draw at Hampden Park on Saturday. The Scots created enough scoring chances but stubborn defending by Serbia and a lack of finishing kept the Group A game deadlocked. Robert Snodgrass was denied from close range by a save from Vladimir Stojkovic at the near post, while Steven Naismith sent a header wide at...
11:22 PM, Sep 08, 2012
Los Angeles: Reality TV star Kourtney Kardashian and her fiance Scott Disick have been blessed with a girl, on July 8. They have named her Penelope Scotland. Baby Penelope was born at The Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre and weighed seven pounds and 14 ounces. "Scott and I are overjoyed to welcome our precious angel Penelope Scotland Disick into our lives. We are forever blessed. Mommy and baby are resting comfortably," said...
11:25 AM, Jul 10, 2012
London: A woman was arrested in London on Saturday on suspicion of terrorism offences as part of an intelligence-led operation in which six persons were held on Thursday, but police said the drill was not linked to the upcoming Olympics in the British capital. Scotland Yard said that the officers from the Counter Terrorism Command on Saturday morning arrested the 22-year-old woman at a residential address in the London borough...
03:56 PM, Jul 07, 2012
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was served with a "surrender notice" by Scotland Yard on Thursday, just days after he dramatically took refuge at the Ecuadorean embassy in London seeking political asylum to block his extradition to Sweden to face sexual assault charges. Earlier in June, 40-year-old Assange had lost his final bid to avoid his extradition to Sweden when Britain's Supreme Court dismissed his appeal to re-open the extradition...
07:13 PM, Jun 28, 2012
London: Four NRIs and two Ghana citizens of Indian origin, who were charged by Scotland Yard on May 18 for allegedly trafficking an Indian woman from Hyderabad for sex, will now face trial in October. The six London-based individuals were produced before the Westminster Magistrates Court last week and no pleas were entered. Magistrates deemed the offences so serious that they sent the case for trial to Southwark Crown Court...
06:20 PM, Jun 12, 2012
London: Scotland Yard on Friday charged four Indian citizens and two Ghana citizens of Indian-origin all based in London for allegedly trafficking a woman from Hyderabad for sex. Official sources confirmed that four of the suspects were Indian citizens while two were Ghana citizens of Indian-origin. The six suspects include a computer professional, an optician, a butcher, a supermarket manager and a secretary, they said. The four Indians are "...
10:18 PM, May 18, 2012
London: A hitherto unknown collection of photographs capturing life and times of 1912 Calcutta has been discovered in a shoebox in Edinburgh. The century-old collection of the Royal Commission of Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), includes rare and fragile glass plate negatives, which show life at the high point of the British Raj. The 178 negatives were found in a shoebox for a pair of grey, size 9,...
03:57 PM, May 08, 2012
Mumbai: The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) India will offer philanthropy services as a part of its wealth management segment in the country. "We started providing philanthropy services under wealth management in Britain from 2005. As India is one of our key international markets, we will soon provide this service to our clients under our wealth management portfolio," RBS Executive Director for philanthropy services, wealth management division, Maya Prabhu, said....
02:53 AM, Apr 16, 2012
London: Vijay Mallya-owned troubled Kingfisher Airlines owes Bank of Scotland $ 21.6 million in overdue lease payments for 10 ATR 72-500 aircraft, the UK High Court has ruled, paving the way for potential action by the bank to recover the outstanding sum. According to flightglobal.com, Bank of Scotland had brought the action on behalf of a consortium of lenders against Kingfisher's parent company, United Breweries Holdings, which had guaranteed the...
08:46 PM, Mar 12, 2012
London: The state-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has announced that it is to cut 215 full-time jobs, shifting nearly 300 back-office roles to centres in India, in a move that has incensed employee unions. "We have embarked upon a three-year transformation programme across our finance division which will increase efficiency and allow us to serve our customers better," a spokesman for RBS said. He added: "This includes looking at...
01:26 AM, Mar 06, 2012
London: Three Indians have been charged with the attempted murder of Praveen Reddy, an MBA student at the London Business School, who was critically stabbed on Friday night in the Newham borough of London. The Metropolitan Police told PTI on Sunday that the three are: Amareshwar Arava, 25, Sai Kishore Balguri, 25 and Nishanth Puttapaka, 23. "We are not treating the incident as racially motivated at this time," a police...
03:22 PM, Feb 12, 2012
London: Yet another Indian student has come under attack in Britain. Praveen Reddy, from Hyderabad, was a student of MBA at the London Business School. On Friday night, he was stabbed several times at a party he was attending in Newham, London, the Scotland Yard said. The boy is currently recuperating at the London Royal Hospital. Praveen suffered severe abdomen and chest injuries and is currently said to be in...
07:37 AM, Feb 12, 2012
London: An Indian student, Pravin Reddy, doing an MBA at the London Business School was stabbed on Friday in the London borough of Newham Scotland Yard on Saturday said. Eleven people have been arrested following the stabbing of the Indian student who was not named by the Scotland Yard. Pravin was admitted to the London Royal hospital with deep neck, abdomen & chest injuries. The family has been informed Pravin...
05:13 PM, Feb 11, 2012
London: Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet. Unfortunately for the cyber sleuths, the hackers were in on the call too - and now so is the rest of the world. Anonymous published the roughly 15-minute-long recording of the...
03:02 AM, Feb 04, 2012
New York: Standard & Poor's reduced its credit ratings on 15 big banking companies, mostly in the Europe and the United States, on Tuesday as the result of a sweeping overhaul of its ratings criteria. JPMorgan Chase & Co, Bank of America Corp, Citigroup Inc, Wells Fargo & Co, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Morgan Stanley, Barclays Plc, HSBC Holdings Plc, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and UBS AG, were...
09:53 AM, Nov 30, 2011
London: Twenty-two Indians have been arrested over the past five weeks by Britain's immigration authorities for working illegally in the country, and the UK Border Agency is now working to deport them from the country. The illegal workers were arrested in enforcement operations on businesses and private addresses across England, Wales and Scotland. These businesses now face fines of up to 10,000 pounds for each illegal worker, unless they can...
04:09 PM, Nov 01, 2011
London: One of the most talked about couples in cricket and showbiz alike, Australian spin legend Shane Warne and British actress Elizabeth Hurley reportedly got engaged in Scotland during a golf event. The 42-year-old Warne and the 46-year-old Hurley, previously married to Indian businessman Arun Nayar, got engaged after a dinner at a hotel in St Andrews, on Scotland's east coast, where the Aussie was taking part in a golf...
11:24 AM, Oct 02, 2011
London: A 35-year-old man on Wednesday became the sixteenth suspect to be arrested by British police as part of the investigation into phone hacking at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid of media baron Rupert Murdoch. Officers from Scotland Yard arrested the unnamed man early on Wednesday morning after a swoop on his home. He was taken to a north London police station for questioning on suspicion of conspiracy...
04:21 PM, Sep 07, 2011
London: In a fresh development in Britain's phone hacking scandal, a police officer has been arrested in relation to leaks during investigation into the unethical news gathering practices at the now defunct News of the World tabloid. The 51-year-old detective constable was arrested while at work and bailed as part of continuing investigations by Scotland Yard. He has also been suspended. A second man, aged 35, has been arrested by...
08:29 AM, Aug 20, 2011
