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Meenakshi Chakraverti
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The writer is a consultant in leadership development based in California
    UK visa fees is set for big hikeIndia
    UK visa fees is set for big hike

    The British government is set to increase visa fees across most categories of applications from March 18, in a move that...

    8 March 2016 12:39 AM IST

    ISIS targets wrong GoogleTechnology
    ISIS targets wrong Google

    Hackers affiliated to ISIS terror group who promised to take down international search engine giant Google has instead...

    4 March 2016 5:30 AM IST

    Wrong body flown to UK by mistakeIndia
    Wrong body flown to UK by mistake

    In a major goof-up, the body of an unidentified man has been mistakenly flown from India to the UK in the belief that it...

    2 March 2016 5:41 AM IST

    British Muslim girls being forced into online marriagesWorld
    British Muslim girls being forced into online marriages

    Minor Muslim girls in the UK as young as 11 are being forced to marry men living abroad via the Internet despite a ban...

    29 Feb 2016 5:40 AM IST

    Prince William and Kate Middleton. (Photo: AFP)World
    Prince William and Kate Middleton set Taj date April 16, will also...

    Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton will embark on their maiden visit to India on April 10, including a...

    27 Feb 2016 4:43 AM IST

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    Iran groups raise bounty on Salman Rushdie

    Hardline Iranian news media outlets have raised $600,000 to add to a bounty for the killing of Salman Rushdie, it...

    25 Feb 2016 7:48 AM IST

    Amnesty International condemns ‘growing intolerance’India
    Amnesty International condemns ‘growing intolerance’

    Authorities in India failed to stop “incidents of religious violence” and often “contributed to...

    25 Feb 2016 3:06 AM IST

    UK universities condemn ‘attack on dissent’World
    UK universities condemn ‘attack on dissent’

    Eight top universities in the UK, including Oxford and Cambridge, on Thursday came out in support of Jawaharlal Nehru...

    19 Feb 2016 1:28 AM IST

    UK site traces Netaji ashes to Tokyo templeWorld
    UK site traces Netaji ashes to Tokyo temple

    A website created in the UK to chronicle the final days of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on Monday released details of what...

    16 Feb 2016 3:02 AM IST

    Cambridge launches written admission testsWorld
    Cambridge launches written admission tests

    UK’s Cambridge University on Tuesday announced that written tests will now be part of the application process in...

    2 Feb 2016 11:46 PM IST

    Serena Williams (left) and Angelique Kerber during the awards ceremony in Melbourne on Saturday. (Photo: AFP)World
    Out of House, British MPs may have to follow Sharia law

    MPs and peers were told this week that they are likely to have to move out of the Palace of Westminster entirely for at...

    31 Jan 2016 12:14 AM IST

    ‘Jihadi Sid’ hails Hitler in his video monologueWorld
    ‘Jihadi Sid’ hails Hitler in his video monologue

    A video has emerged which shows suspected Indian-origin ISIS jihadist Siddhartha Dhar praising Adolf Hitler.

    28 Jan 2016 3:30 AM IST

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