A set of 24 paintings, which depict Tipu Sultan’s victory over the British at the Battle of Pollilur in 1780, will be auctioned by Sotheby’s next week.

The UK Commonwealth teams — England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Jersey — could be on the verge of pulling out of the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi due to fears over the safety and security of their athletes. Three English athletes already pulled out of the championships on Wednesday.

Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, has offered an unparalleled glimpse into its operations with its first authorised history published in London Tuesday.
Currently headed by Sir John Sawers, MI6 is the world’s oldest continuously operating foreign intelligence service.

The Pakistan cricket team was hit by new allegations of spot-fixing on Saturday as the International Cricket Council launched an investigation into the third one-day international between England and

A prominent Pakistani politician, Dr Imran Farooq, was stabbed to death near his home in north London on Thursday evening.

World War Two heroine Noor Inayat Khan, a descendant of Tipu Sultan, will become first British Asian woman to get a memorial in Britain.
Noor Inayat Khan, who was executed by the Nazis at Dachau, was posthumously awarded the George Cross as one of only three women agents recruited by Britain’s S

First-time director Kiran Rao’s film Dhobi Ghat, aka Mumbai Diaries, is leading the Indian selection of seven films at the London Film Festival, which will take place from October 13 to October 28.

Britain will honour the one-and-a-half million Indian soldiers who fought for the British Empire during World War 1 with a new war memorial at the downs in Patcham, on the outskirts of Brighton, Sussex, on September 26.

Pakistan cricketer Yasir Hameed was on Sunday afternoon questioned at his country’s high commission in central London after a newspaper published details of an interview in which the opening batsman h

Pakistan high commissioner Wajed Shamsul Hasan, in an exclusive interview to this newspaper, admitted on Saturday afternoon that the Scotland Yard officers had seized a huge amount of cash from the hotel rooms of three cricketers.