Ø British Labour Party leader Ed
Miliband will visit India in the first week of October,
keeping the United Kingdom’s engagement with the Narendra Modi government at a
fast pace. British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will be in India between
August 24 and 27 and the Opposition leader will visit within a little over a
month from then. Chancellor George Osborne and former Foreign Secretary William
Hague had visited India in recent weeks. Trade has been the thrust in most of
these visits as both countries hope to increase bilateral trade from the
current levels of $16 billion per annum, but Mr. Miliband’s visit could also be
a signal to the Indian-origin voters in U.K. ahead of next year’s election. Mr.
Miliband, who became leader of the Labour Party in 2010 at the age of 40, is a
potential Prime Ministerial candidate.
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| Salman Rushdie |
Ø Salman Rushdie has received the Hans Christian Andersen
Literature Award, Denmark’s most important literature accolade. The 67-year-old
author was handed the prize by Danish Crown Princess Mary in the town of Odense
amid tight security due to his status as a former assassination target in
accordance with an Iranian fatwa.
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