UK gets first new bank in 100 years Gulf News | London: Metro Bank, Britain's first new high street lender for over 100 years, opened its first branch to the public — and dogs — yesterday in a move aimed at shaking up the retail banking sector. | Co-founded by billionaire US businessman Vernon Hill, Metro Bank hopes to tap into publ...
UK to lift nuclear ban on India The Australian | AUSTRALIA is expected to come under pressure to lift its ban on uranium sales to India after British Prime Minister David Cameron agreed to allow the export of nuclear technology and components to New Delhi against official recommendations. | Britain's The Daily Telegraph reported that Mr Cameron ...
UK gets first new bank in 100 years Gulf News | London: Metro Bank, Britain's first new high street lender for over 100 years, opened its first branch to the public — and dogs — yesterday in a move aimed at shaking up the retail banking sector. | Co-founded by billionaire US business...
India-UK to cooperate in various sectors Zeenews New Delhi: India and Britain Thursday decided to launch a new phase of the India-UK Education and Research Initiative, as they discussed prospects of further cooperation in the field of education. | According to a joint statement issued at the end of...
India, UK to explore avenues for cooperation in space sector Zeenews New Delhi: India and the UK today decided to enhance cooperation in scientific research and explore possibilities for collaboration in the space sector. | British Minister for Universities and Science David Willets held discussions with Science and T...
'World's oldest Twitter user' dies in Britain aged 104 The Times Of India LONDON: A 104-year-old British woman thought to have been the world's oldest user of Twitter has died, her nursing home said Wednesday. | Ivy Bean, who had about 57,000 followers on the micro-blogging site under the name "IvyBean104", died in the ear...
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Ryanair to cut UK winter capacity by 16% Irish Times | MARK HENNESSY London Editor | RYANAIR SAID yesterday it would cut UK winter capacity by 16 per cent from November, blaming the British government's air passenger duty, adding tha...
Anand Sharma sees UK immigration cap affecting business, investors Newstrack India | London, June 29 (ANI): Visiting Minister of Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma has said Indian business leaders and investors have voiced concerns about the British government's ...
Essar buys UK’s Servosteel, deal seen at Rs 450 cr The Times Of India MUMBAI: The Ruias-controlled Essar Steel on Monday acquired the UK-based steel processor Servosteel for an undisclosed amount, making it their first buyout in the country where the...
Simon Carves Project âEuro" Ensus Biorefinery âEuro" Wilton Site UK Process and Control Today Europe’s Largest Wheat Biorefinery starts production using VLT® Automation Drives. | The first tanker of sustainably produced bioethanol has been dispatched to Shell from the UK’s and Europe’s largest wheat biorefinery, which recently started ...
Condoms, car parts, oilfields spice up UK mergers and acquisitions DNA India | London: A string of takeovers has enlivened Britain's near-moribund mergers and acquisitions (M&A) landscape this week, highlighting pent-up demand for deals among cash-rich corporations and private equity firms. | The timing of such a flur...
Socialite dinner for UK ministers The Telegraph India New Delhi, July 24: Blame it on the generation gap. | Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, will attend dinners hosted for him by some of India’s leading socialites rather than by Indian ministers during next week’s visit, with UK Pr...
A new energy source for Britain? Channel 4 Channel 4 News gains exclusive access to the UK's first shale gas well, a new way of extracting natural gas from underground rocks which could revolutionise the energy market. | These , and shale gas wells will soon be appearing all over Europe, repo...
UK reiterates BP not involved in Lockerbie release Zeenews London: The decision by Scottish authorities to release the only person convicted of the deadly bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 was "wrong and misguided," but there's no evidence to suggest that Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was returned to Libya in return for...
FTSE 100 may come to India; Nifty may go to UK The Times Of India MUMBAI: The National Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange (LSE) on Wednesday entered into an agreement to evaluate the options of cross-listing of their key indices on each other's platforms. | The move comes days after the NSE's benchmark Nifty Index started trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). The bourse launched the future c...
Questions Swirl About Damaged Japanese Tanker The New York Times | Shipping officials said Thursday that they were examining the hull of a Japanese oil tanker that was mysteriously damaged this week as it traversed a strategically vital waterway between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. The ship’s owner has said that it may have been attacked. | With the tanker docked in the United Arab Emirates, the owner a...
