UK university crisis is just getting startedBritish universities have never faced bankruptcy in their 900-year history, but the current financial distress suggests that might soon cha...
29 Jul, 2024, 10.35 AM IST
Sometimes U.S. and U.K. politics seem in lockstep. Not this year.British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called an early general election for the UK, announcing that he does not expect Britain's economic n...
26 May, 2024, 02.28 PM IST
Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah says many works of ‘Golden Age’ British authors were openly racistThe British-Tanzanian author won the 2021 Nobel Prize for books such as 'Paradise' and 'Memory of Departure' exploring Europe's colonial le...
13 Nov, 2023, 07.21 PM IST
Asian hornets devour honeybees, alarmed UK authorities make plan to eradicate menaceAsian hornets reached France and spread across Europe. They have crossed the Channel to Britain. Know the plan prepared by the UK authoriti...
17 Aug, 2023, 09.10 PM IST
Britain to see PIO at 10, Downing St soon: Former British PM Cameron told Modi 7 years agoPeople with Indian roots across the world celebrated as Rishi Sunak the swearing-in of Indian origin Rishi Sunak as the United Kingdom's Pr...
26 Oct, 2022, 10.00 AM IST
Accidental author, voice of displaced: Who is Abdulrazak Gurnah, the winner of Nobel Prize in Literature?Gurnah says he stumbled upon writing, it was unplanned.
08 Oct, 2021, 04.59 PM IST
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel Prize for literatureThe Nobel prize recognised Gurnah's "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee...
07 Oct, 2021, 06.51 PM IST
G7 leaders at UK summit target plan for 1 billion jabsUS President Joe Biden and his colleagues from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan will sit down for their first face-to-face...
11 Jun, 2021, 09.54 AM IST
Looking at solutions for COVID-19 variant first identified in India: UK PM Boris JohnsonDuring the weekly Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) session in the House of Commons, he was asked about the variant - named B.1.617.2 and c...
12 May, 2021, 09.48 PM IST
UK finds 2 further strands of Indian variant of coronavirus as case numbers rise to 400Public Health England (PHE) said it has tracked around 400 cases of the B.1.617 variant of coronavirus first found in India but added that ...
30 Apr, 2021, 07.38 PM IST
New findings may shed light on why the UK variant of COVID-19 is more infectiousThe B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2 was discovered in Kent, UK in December 2020, and has since spread across the globe, contributing to the i...
26 Mar, 2021, 05.23 PM IST
World faces around 4,000 COVID-19 variants as researchers explore mixed vaccine shots"All manufacturers, Pfizer-Biontech, Moderna, Oxford-AstraZeneca and others are looking at how they can improve their vaccine to make sure ...
04 Feb, 2021, 02.47 PM IST
London faces tightest restrictions; sees new virus variantThe surge of COVID-19 cases in southern England may be associated with a new variant of coronavirus, Hancock told lawmakers. He said offici...
15 Dec, 2020, 08.07 AM IST
Explained: The potential impact of Brexit without a trade dealThe shock result of Britain's referendum on leaving the EU in 2016 sent the pound down 8% against the dollar, its biggest one-day fall sinc...
08 Dec, 2020, 03.47 PM IST
- First evidence of Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain unearthed
London, Nov 29 (IANS) Archaeologists have discovered evidence showing that Roman statesman and general Julius Caesar first invaded Britain ...
29 Nov, 2017, 06.02 PM IST
UK universities want new immigration policy for international studentsThe most recent figures on international students in the UK showed a worrying decline in the number of new international enrolments over re...
14 Apr, 2017, 01.43 PM IST
- UK gets tough on pharma cos' clinical trials
Britain plans to force pharmaceutical companies to share more information with regulators about clinical trials after an investigation rece...
25 Mar, 2008, 12.45 AM IST