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UK India Business Council launches Defence Vertical
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 29 (ANI/NewsVoir): The UK India Business Council has announced the establishment of an Aerospace and Defence Industry Group to promote UK-India collaboration, at a reception hosted by the British High Commissioner.
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63 pc increase in Indian student visas for UK
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 28 (ANI): Over 30,000 Indian students were granted Tier 4 study visas to the United Kingdom in the year ending September 2019, recording a 63 per cent hike as compared to the previous year, according to the latest UK immigration statistics published on Thursday.
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UK top defence officials to visit India later this month: Envoy
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 15 (ANI): In a bid to strengthen defence cooperation, United Kingdom's top defence officials will visit India later this month, British High Commissioner, Dominic Asquith, told ANI on Friday.
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Britain envoy congratulates India for improving its rank in ease of doing
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 15 (ANI): British High Commission to India Dominic Asquith on Friday congratulated India for improving its rank in World Bank's ease of doing business.
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HMS Queen Elizabeth to operate in Indian Ocean on its maiden voyage: UK en
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 15 (ANI): British High Commissioner to India, Sir Dominic Asquith announced that UK's aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth will operate in the Indian Ocean region on its maiden voyage.
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Prince Charles concludes 10th official visit to India
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 14 (ANI): Britain's Prince Charles' tenth official visit to India, packed with a diverse range of engagements over two days in New Delhi and Mumbai, concluded on Thursday, the British High Commission here said.
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Kate Middleton, Prince William arrive for dinner at Pak's National Monumen
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Oct 15 (ANI): The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate Middleton reached the National Monument in Islamabad for a dinner hosted by the British High Commissioner in Pakistan in a specially painted motorised rickshaw. Yes, you read it right! The royal co
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Meet Ayesha Khan, the 22-year-old Gorakhpur woman who became British High
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 11 (ANI): Becoming a British High Commissioner is a very hectic job and a 22-year-old woman had a rare chance of taking up the post for a day and getting to experience what it is like to be the UK's envoy to India.
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Decriminalisation of Sec 377 a stepping stone, say LGBT activists
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 11 (ANI): A year since the Supreme Court overturned Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, the LGBT community, which gathered for a celebration here on Wednesday said as far as equal rights for the group was concerned, there still remains a long way to go.
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Jaitley, a man people in Britain treasured: British High Commissioner to I
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 25 (ANI): British High Commissioner to India Sir Dominic Asquith on Sunday paid tribute to former Union Minister Arun Jaitley at the latter's residence and recalled him as 'a man people in Britain treasured'.
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Protests outside Indian Embassy in London were 'overwhelmingly peaceful':
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 16 (ANI): The British High Commission in New Delhi said on Friday that the protests outside the Indian Embassy in London were "overwhelmingly peaceful", amid reports of a tense face-off between Indian and Pakistani diaspora outside the embassy campus.
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Applications for Chevening Scholarship programmes for Indian students open
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 7 (ANI): The UK government on Wednesday announced that the application window for Chevening Scholarship and Fellowship programmes for the year 2020-21 is now open.
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