India

A poor government clerk from a poverty-stricken area of India has been dubbed a real life Slumdog Millionaire after winning more than £1 million on an Indian game show

Oct 28, 2011

It's official! If there is one 'best' place in the world where you should be in 2012, it is London for all reasons. Influential travel guide publisher Lonely Planet has named London the "best city" in the world to visit in 2012.

Oct 28, 2011

London has been named the top city in the world to visit next year in the seventh annual ‘Lonely Planet Best in Travel guide.

Oct 28, 2011

Ra.one, India's most expensive film starring Bollywood's superstar Shah Rukh Khan as a superhero was released worldwide Wednesday, coinciding with the Hindu festival of Diwali.

Oct 27, 2011

Diwali – or Deepavali – is an important Hindu festival and is known as the festival of lights. It is famous for the stunning images of colour and celebrated by one billion Hindus in India and around the world.

Oct 27, 2011

Nokia has finally unveiled its first set of new Windows Phone devices, pegging its new Lumia 710 and Lumia 800 devices with a November release date.

Oct 26, 2011

Christopher Moran, a senior figure in the City of London and Conservative supporter has said: “Britain must support the Euro” to improve the ailing economic climate.

Oct 21, 2011

In 2007, Indian-born Booker Prize-winning author, Salman Rushdie, established a new high for Asian Muslims living in the UK, when he was honored with a knighthood. More recently, Abdul Arain, a Non Resident Indian and Cambridge-based grocery-store owner, shot to fame when he was nominated in the Cambridge University Chancellor elections. Though he lost, there continues to a lot of hype about the commoner with an MBA from Cambridge.

Oct 18, 2011

Blackberry is still suffering severe disruptive issues with a number of users receiving emails in bulk, yet the makers of the Blackberry handsets, RIM refuse to give another statement as to why BBM, Facebook, Twitter and other internet services are unavailable.

Jamie Lewis Oct 12, 2011

BlackBerry has finally released a statement explaining the data outages of the last two days which saw millions of users left in the dark; a 'core switch failure' is to blame.

Oct 12, 2011

BlackBerrys are still not working to their full capacity Wednesday after a 72-hour server collapse at their Slough data centre hit service across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Jamie Lewis Oct 12, 2011

With India's population greater than that of the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan and Bangladesh combined, the Roman Catholic church has urged the devout to increase the numbers of Christians in the country.

Oct 11, 2011

Hundreds of people have marched through the streets of the Afghan capital Kabul, demanding the immediate withdrawal of foreign military forces a day before the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion.

Oct 06, 2011

With Russia and China vetoing a UN Security Council resolution threatening action against Syria following the deadly and brutal crackdown on protests, cracks within the UN Scecurity Council are becoming more apparent.

Oct 05, 2011

As the relationship between Afghanistan continues to erode, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has arrived in India for talks over strategic security agreements and development aid prompting allegations Afghan is taunting Pakistan by seeking rapprochement with its regional competitor.

Oct 04, 2011

Pakistan is still hitting back at allegations from Afghan officials that its intelligence agency masterminded the assassination of Kabul's chief peace negotiator with the Taliban, threatening the region's stability and pointing the finger at their neighbour rather than looking at the lack of efficiency of domestic forces.

Oct 03, 2011

A senior leader of one of the largest Bangladeshi Islamic party has been charged with war crimes for his alleged involvement in the country's 1971 independence war against Pakistan.

Oct 03, 2011

The news that Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed in Yemen, courtesy of a U.S. drone attack, must surely round off a pretty poor week in an even worse year for the followers of Al-Qaeda.

Sep 30, 2011

Millions of pounds worth of fake drug and medicines have been seized across the wold, with over half confiscated in the UK.

Sep 29, 2011

One of the reasons why Chris Christie is becoming the new Republican darling is his willingness to talk about foreign policy and to bring about the subject of American exceptionalism.

Sep 28, 2011

The Indian telecom regulator has imposed a limit which means that no one can send more than 100 text messages per day, in an attempt to curb marketing messages.

Sep 27, 2011

After 60 years of designing, a driverless, battery powered and laser-guided pod is ferrying passengers between terminals at London's Heathrow Airport.

Jamie Lewis Sep 26, 2011

Here is all the latest travel news for UK commuters for the 26 September 2011. Here you will find all the latest up to date travel news for your journey this morning. Here we will cover all the latest travel information on the buses, train, tube and motorway networks across the United Kingdom.

Sep 26, 2011

he war of words between Washington and Islamabad has reached a new high after the U.S. claimed that the Pakistan's spy service is backing violence against U.S. targets in Afghanistan and put the spotlight on the Pakistani government.

Sep 23, 2011

Almost half (49%) of students consider the internet to be as importance as water, food, air and shelter in their lives, and more than half (55%) indicate they could not live without the internet, a study has found.

Sep 22, 2011

The Tata Nano, the model that lies beneath the glinting bodywork, is marketed as the world's cheapest car with a price tag of a little over £1,300. The gold version is worth an estimated 220 million rupees (£2.9m).

Sep 21, 2011

Twin Babies Born From Separate Uteruses ‘Shocks’ Mother. The chances are said to be one in five million but a woman in Florida has given birth to two babies from two separate uteruses

Sep 20, 2011

Two Babies Born From Two Separate Uteruses. The chances are said to be one in five million but a woman in Florida has given birth to two babies from two separate uteruses.

Sep 20, 2011

About 300 local people and 23 tourists were rescued by Indian troops after a powerful earthquake hit the northeast Indian state of Sikkim Sunday, said local media on Monday.

Sep 19, 2011

The new edition of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World shows how a large area of Greenland has become "green", proving how much the ice has retreated in the space of ten years.

Sep 15, 2011