Over 20,000 people had signed a petition to the British government calling on it to accept more refugees, as Europe faced an unprecedented influx of mainly Syrian refugees.
There is a global refugee crisis. The UK is not offering proportional asylum in comparison with European counterparts.
Opposition politicians have called on Prime Minister David Cameron to increase the numbers of refugees accepted in Britain, which accepts a lower number of asylum seekers as a proportion of its population than most other EU countries.
India and Others Won't Support the US if Iran Deal Fails
As per John Kerry, countries like India, China, and Japan major customers of oil from Iran would no longer side with the US if the historic Iranian nuclear deal is not approved by American lawmakers.
Kerry warned that if this plan is voted down, the US cannot predict with certainty what Iran will do.
The latest figures indicate that the Obama administration is inching towards support for the deal in the Senate.
As per a new satellite study, there are more than 3 trillion trees on Earth, around 422 trees for every person, although the number is believed to have dropped by 46 percent since the start of human civilisation. The Yale-led international research found the result of the tree count is around seven and a half times more than some previous estimates.
The government will auction 69 idle oil and gas fields of state-owned ONGC and Oil India to private firms on a new revenue sharing model and liberalised terms including pricing and marketing freedom.
The 69 small and marginal fields holding 89 million tonne of oil and gas resources, worth Rs 70,000 crore at current rates, will be given to explorers offering the maximum revenue from hydrocarbon produced to the government.
According to Dharmendra Pradhan, this is a paradigm shift from the controversial production sharing contract (PSC) and cost recovery model to a more equitable revenue sharing model that protects government interest in both low oil and high oil price scenarios.
Last Date for E-filing of Income Tax Returns Extended
The government has extended the last date for e-filing of Income Tax returns by a week to 7th September.
The government had received various representations that tax payers have faced difficulties in e-filing of returns across the country due to slowing down of certain e-services on August 31, 2015, the earlier due date.
Earlier, the due-date for filing of the return for Assessment Year 2015-16 was extended till 31st August 2015 in case of those taxpayers who were required to file their tax return by 31st July.
A Rusian manned spacecraft with three astronauts onboard was launched to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Veteran cosmonaut Sergei Volkov of Roscosmos is leading a team that also includes first ever Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency and Aidyn Aimbetov from Kazakhstan's Space Agency.
The three are set to dock to the station on Friday, September 4.
Envoys of five nations presented their credentials to President Pranab Mukherjee.
The envoys were Martin Ney, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, Jagdishwar Goburdhun, High Commissioner of the Republic of Mauritius, Tovar da Silva Nunes, Ambassador of Federative Republic of Brazil, Niankoro Yeah Smake, Ambassador of Republic of Mali and Gonchig Ganbold, Ambassador of Mongolia.