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India's growth is expected to accelerate to 5.6 per cent in the current fiscal and further to 6.5 per cent in 2015-16, buoyed by strong investments and political certainty, rating agency Fitch said.

24 year-old Haroon Ashraf of Bordesley Green stabbed his wife after three years of marriage when she refused to let him have his cannabis. The mother, Neelam Ashraf wanted to protect her children. Judge Murray Creed ruled that 'she did not want you taking drugs in her presence or the presence of your son (…) you lost self control and lunged at her, she put her arm up to protect herself from the knife (…) you would have hit her in the face if she had not put her arm up.'

Microsoft will have local data centres for its commercial cloud services in India by the end of 2015, CEO Satya Nadella announced in New Delhi

Birmingham police were commended for the way they handled the EDL demonstration which took place on Broad Street last week. Unlike last year's abysmal protest which saw mass violence and numerous arrests on the grounds of public order, this year's protest was calm and controlled with police making only 5 arrests.

Subrata Roy, the jailed head of Sahara conglomerate, is back in a cell after living in a makeshift prison office for two months while working on the sale of three luxury hotels in New York and London, a deal that is still hanging

Belgrave Circle was set alight with festivity last Sunday 12th. With last year's celebration seeing more than 35,000 people filling the city's Golden Mile, a collection of new lighting columns should guarantee at least a few hundred more in 2014.

Travel industry body International Air Transport Association (IATA) said India's domestic market increased by 7.4 per cent in August over the previous year