One of the things I want to do as captain is continue the Seve legacy said the New Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley. ...
02:42 PM, Jan 16, 2013
The number of alleged crimes in Britain involving social media sites like Facebook and Twitter has spiked nearly eight-fold in four years, according to latest police figures. ...
02:47 AM, Dec 28, 2012
The staff of an Australian radio station, whose DJs made a prank call to a UK hospital that led to the death of an Indian-origin nurse, have received death threats, prompting some of them to move to safehouses. ...
01:00 PM, Dec 14, 2012
The two Australian radio presenters, who made a prank call to a London hospital for details on Kate Middleton's pregnancy that apparently led to an Indian-origin nurse's alleged suicide, are said to be in hiding amid global outrage. Mel Greig and Michael Christian, behind the prank call that has been linked to the nurse's death are said to be in a "fragile" state, undergoing intensive psychological counselling. ...
06:09 PM, Dec 09, 2012
New Delhi: Britain has assured India of its determination to bring the perpetrators of attack on retired Lt General KS Brar to justice and said it will continue updating Indian officials about the investigations in the case. In a letter to External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Office William Hague conveyed his "shock" at the attack on Brar in London on September 30...
12:48 PM, Oct 07, 2012
New Delhi: Retired Lt General Kuldip Singh Brar, who was attacked in London on Sunday, said the Khalistan revival movement is very strong and funds are coming from groups in Germany, Canada, US and UK. Brar reiterated that the attack was an assassination attempt on him and "not any message they were sending". The 78-year-old former Army officer, who is known for leading Operation Blue Star against Sikh militants in...
09:16 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Lieutenant General KS Brar, the man who led Operation Blue Star in 1984, came under attack from four 'burly, bearded' men on Sunday night. ...
09:23 PM, Oct 02, 2012
Lieutenant General KS Brar, the man who led Operation Blue Star in 1984, came under attack from four "burly, bearded" men on Sunday night. He said that CCTV footage and a mobile phone from the crime scene could help police find the men who attacked him at his London home. The Scotland Yard has appealed for information from members of the public on the assault, and described the four assailants ...
08:38 AM, Oct 02, 2012
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
