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Car crashes into barriers near UK Parliament in Westminster, wounds several pedestrians; man held on suspicion of terror offences
Fp Staff • 7 years agoWestminster Underground station, close to the UK parliament, was closed and the building was cordoned off. No one was being allowed entry to parliament. As parliament is in recess for summer, most lawmakers are not using the building.
'Modi Not Welcome': Hundreds protest PM's visit to UK, Indian Tricolour ripped as demonstrations turn violent
Fp Staff • 7 years agoSome groups protesting against atrocities in India during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to London turned violent after the Indian Tricolour was torn down from one of the official flagpoles set up for all 53 Commonwealth countries.
Scotland Yard arrests man armed with knives near UK Parliament
• 8 years agoA man armed with knives was on Thursday arrested near the UK Parliament on suspicion of planning a terror attack, Scotland Yard said.
British Parliament, Westminster Bridge attack: One dead, several injured; UK PM to hold emergency meet
Fp Staff • 8 years agoA car on Westminster Bridge mowed down at least 5 people while a man stabbed a police officer in the British Parliament Complex
Mahatma Gandhi statue unveiled at Parliament Square in London
Fp Staff • 10 years agoA historic bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled today at the Parliament Square here, standing adjacent to iconic leaders like Britain's war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela.
Meghnad Desai plans hunger strike for Mahatma's statue in UK
Fp Archives • 10 years agoEconomist Meghnad Desai will go on a Gandhian-style hunger strike to help raise £1 million required for Mahatma Gandhi's statue in London.
'Sexual weirdo', 'closet racist': Look who's opposing a Gandhi statue in UK's Parl Square
Hasan Suroor • 11 years agoSeveral Indian-origin groups are opposing the move arguing that Gandhi's "despicable sexual exploitation of women" to test his celibacy and his covert approval of the caste system make him unsuitable for such an honour.
Statue of Mahatma Gandhi to be installed in London's Parliament Square
Fp Archives • 11 years agoSixty-seven years after he led India to freedom from British rule, a statue of Mahatma Gandhi would be installed in Parliament Square in London by early next year.
London cabbies block road to protest at Olympics lane ban
Fp Archives • 13 years agoOver 200 London taxi drivers today brought Westminster to a standstill to protest at being banned from plying on dedicated Olympics traffic lanes from next week.