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BAe mulls price cut for Eurofighter

British defence firm BAE Systems said on Tuesday it is considering all options, including a price cut, in order to get a chance to win back the Indian contract for 126 fighter jets for the Indian Air

London kicks off Dickens’ 200th b’day bash

A manuscript by Charles Dickens on display in central London. 	— AFP

Britain rang in the bicentennial birth celebrations for novelist Charles Dickens, author of English literature classics like David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol,

Aid to India won’t stop: UK minister

The Tory-led coalition government in the UK is trying to play down the debate in the media over the aid to India.

Britain plans big party for Elizabeth’s jubilee today

Queen Elizabeth II, who will mark 60 years on throne on Monday, with two public meetings although she usually spends the day privately.

In UK, Commons removes a totty ale

An ale created a furore in the UK on Thursday, leading to some women MPs asking the House of Commons to withdraw it from sale.

4 admit to London Stock Exchange bomb plot

Four British Muslims on Wednesday admitted in court that they had been involved in an Al Qaeda-inspired plot to unleash a Mumbai-style atrocity in London.

Where can you play Quidditch?

Conceived by J.K. Rowling as a sport for young wizards and witches in her Harry Potter series of books, the magical sport of quidditch has been adapted for normal people like you and me.

Leaving life in style

The biggest cliché for death is that it’s “the great leveller,” but the unspoken taboo of talking about the death has led to a global culture of silence about the inevitable.

Gates to help India combat diseases

Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates in London on Monday launched an initiative along with 13 pharmaceutical firms, World Health Organisation, World Bank and the US, UK and UAE governments

Dahl, Hitchcock refused honours

A member of staff (centre) poses with waxwork models of US actor Taylor Lautner (right) and British actor Robert Pattinson

Writers Roald Dahl, Aldous Huxley, Graham Greene and C.S. Lewis were in the till-now secret list of Britons who had refused to accept honours from the reigning monarch, between 1951 and 1999.

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.