UK PM Johnson looks set to confirm July 19 lockdown end, with cautionUK Health Secretary Sajid Javid will update Parliament on the plans from next Monday and lay out that the government's four tests to lift l...
13 Jul, 2021, 07.58 AM IST
Indian variant got to be monitored, says Boris Johnson as UK lockdown easesAddressing a Downing Street press conference, Johnson declared that the tests he had set for the country to move to the next stage of reope...
10 May, 2021, 11.10 PM IST
UK finds 77 cases of COVID-19 variant first found in IndiaPublic Health England (PHE), which releases weekly updates on the number of confirmed new cases of Variants of Concern (VOC) and VUI in the...
16 Apr, 2021, 02.48 PM IST
SEC to reconvene on January 1 to consider emergency use authorisation for COVID-19 vaccinesThe subject expert committee on Covid-19 of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) on December 9 had sought additional saf...
31 Dec, 2020, 07.52 AM IST
UK plans Vitamin D rollout to vulnerable as COVID-19 protection: ReportA number of studies have indicated that poor Vitamin D levels are associated with a higher risk of death from the coronavirus. The vitamin ...
08 Nov, 2020, 03.56 PM IST
Bank of England to unveil more stimulus as lockdown resumesThe BoE is widely predicted to pump out an extra £100 billion ($130 billion, 111 billion euros) under its long-running quantitative easing ...
05 Nov, 2020, 09.40 AM IST
Tata Motors says JLR June quarter retail sales significantly hit by Covid-19It said the sales recoveries in June for China and North America were particularly encouraging.
09 Jul, 2020, 06.34 PM IST
UK postal operator Royal Mail cuts 2,000 jobsBritain's postal operator Royal Mail, whose workers have helped the nation cope with the coronavirus lockdown, said Thursday it will axe 2,...
25 Jun, 2020, 04.32 PM IST
India's GDP to contract 3.1% in 2020: Moody'sThe global rating agency lowered it's estimates for almost all major economies. For the G20 advanced economies, the report projected a cont...
22 Jun, 2020, 09.52 PM IST
Indian students' UK post-study work visa rights safe amid COVID-19 crisisThe UK Home Office said the Graduate Visa route, commonly referred to as a post-study work visa and designed for overseas students to be ab...
18 Jun, 2020, 09.15 PM IST
Lockdown, Day 57: Jet, set, goThe government is slowly charting out ways to bring back life on track even as the coronavirus pandemic rages on. After a two-month long sh...
20 May, 2020, 06.29 PM IST
No end to lockdown yet but 'careful' easing begins, British PM Boris Johnson says"This is not the time simply to end the lockdown this week," PM Boris Johnson said in a televised address but added that some primary schoo...
12 May, 2020, 05.26 PM IST
UK universities reach out to Indian students for COVID-19 supportAir India will operate 64 flights from May 7 to May 13 to bring back around 15,000 Indian nationals stranded abroad amid the COVID-19-induc...
07 May, 2020, 01.35 PM IST
UK will recover 'quickly and strongly' after COVID-19 crisis: Rishi SunakThe economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis would be "significant, but temporary", UK's Indian-origin finance minister Rishi Sunak has said,...
15 Apr, 2020, 10.48 AM IST
Boris Johnson continues to improve in ICU with Covid-19The 55-year-old was shifted to the ICU of St.Thomas' Hospital in London on Monday night as his condition worsened over 10 days after he had...
09 Apr, 2020, 06.32 PM IST
Rishi Sunak next in line as UK PM deputy after foreign ministerGiven the rapid spread of COVID-19 in the UK, where the death toll has crossed 6,000, and its impact on frontline ministers, questions arou...
08 Apr, 2020, 09.14 PM IST
NISAU working with Indian embassy to help students stranded in UK lockdown due to coronavirusWith thousands of Indian students stranded in the UK with lockdown and travel disruption in both the countries following the coronavirus pa...
30 Mar, 2020, 12.37 PM IST