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The British boarding schools show, to be held in October seeks to expose discerning Indian families to the concept of UK boarding school education, and the benefits for a student. The show will be held in Delhi and Mumbai and will bring the registrars from selected leading boarding schools of UK.

Four UK's Members of Parliament (MPs) have asked the British government to make it a priority to strengthen trade relations with India after Brexit. During a debate on Thursday in Westminster Hall of Parliament on Commonwealth Trade, Jake Berry, a Conservative party MP led calls to focus on India as the UK exits the European Union (EU).

Forty-eight MPs have lodged formal letters of no confidence to trigger the spill, but to push her out requires 159 votes. If her opponents win, a longer process kicks off to elect a new leader. Cabinet ministers have publicly rallied around the besieged Mrs May, but a number of her ministerial colleagues and former colleagues…

The details of the great escape of Thai junior football team and their coach 'wild boars' are emerging out slowly. The boys and their coach entered the caves to explore on June 23rd and were trapped deep inside the cave complex as rains flooded the caves. Till July 2nd their whereabouts were not known. The British divers found them alive on a ledge in darkness. What struck the divers is their calm demeanour. In spite of staying in the darkness and with very low levels of food the boys did not panic. There is a reason for that. When the wild boars were found they were all meditating. Their coach, the real hero of the whole high drama that followed, was a Buddhist monk before he took the responsibility to coach the football team. Earlier the coach Ekapol Chanthawong spent a decade practising as a monk and is a practitioner of meditation. The coach and his team remained calm by meditating. Meditation kept the team healthy and strong. Mother of one of the trapped boy Chanin, Aisha Wiboonrungrueng was all praise for the coach. She was astonished watching the first video of the boys and said "Look at how calm they were sitting there waiting, No one was crying or anything. It was astonishing. Meditation kept the Thai boys trapped in a cave astonishingly calm". READ:Thai cave rescue to be made into a film A meditation expert Leah Weiss who was taught by the Dalai Lama said that the practice of meditation played a key role in keeping the group composed and alive. She was of the opinion that the meditation imparts mental training that improves focus and compassion. Weiss said " "For Buddhists, meditation is a go-to when distressed or in danger. Cognitive resources that would otherwise be hijacked by the threat can be accessed once again, meaning that problem-solving capacities increase." She further added that " Given that insufficient air and food was a major issue for the trapped boys, meditation is actually a very practical response to both of these c

British manufacturers on Monday urged Prime Minister Theresa May to relinquish her threat that she might pull out of the European Union without a new trade deal, underscoring that they would be the biggest loser of the trade barriers with the EU.

ROME: A military operation to catch migrant traffickers begins Wednesday, with European warships patrolling international waters in the Mediterranean to arrest smugglers dubbed the "mafia of the sea". The European Union's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini announced last month that EUNAVFOR MED, an operation launched to dismantle the network of smugglers abetting the migrant boat crisis, was to enter its second phase.

Yet, this practical-minded biologist possesses the boldest of visions, one she insists is rooted in solid science. It may be technologically possible, she

World renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.He died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday, his family said.The British scientist was famed for his work with black holes and relativity, and wrote several popular science books including A Brief History of Time.

The UK government has banned the entry of visitors from Denmark amid concerns over a new coronavirus strain that has transferred from minks to humans.