- Wednesday, April 09, 2025
THE UK government is likely to extend its furlough scheme – reportedly at a lower rate of 60 per cent of the wages – until the end of September, say reports. Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to make the final announcements on Tuesday (11) as part of its plans to…
British prime minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday (10) the coronavirus lockdown will not end yet, urging people to “stay alert” to the risks as he outlined plans to begin slowly easing measures that have closed down much of the economy for nearly seven weeks. While his government was giving…
An Indian pharmacist died and his boss was left hospitalised after the pair drank a chemical concoction they had developed in an effort to treat coronavirus, police said Saturday. The men worked for a herbal medicine company and were testing their treatment — a mix of nitric oxide and sodium…
Villagers placed the bodies of three victims of a deadly gas leak from an LG Polymers plant in southern India at the gates of the site on Saturday, and demanded the factory be shut down immediately and its top management arrested. Toxic styrene gas spewed out of the plant near…
There have been a lot of rumours and speculations about Hrithik Roshan’s forthcoming projects after the humongous success of Super 30 and War last year. Though the superstar has been flooded with offers from several renowned filmmakers, he is yet to sign his next on the dotted line. If fresh reports are to be…
Indian companies in the UK, with a cumulative turnover of £41.2 billion, employed 110,793 people in 2020, compared with 104,783 employment they generated in 2019, said a latest report. The seventh edition of ‘India meets Britain’ report by the Grant Thornton UK, in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII),…
The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 2,109 and the number of cases climbed to 62,939 in the country on Sunday, registering an increase of 128 deaths and 3,277 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at…
The magical atmosphere will be missing if the cricket season currently stalled by the Covid-19 pandemic resumes in empty stadiums, India captain Virat Kohli has said. The spread of the novel coronavirus has brought sport to a standstill and staging games without spectators has been suggested as one way to resume professional…
MORE commuters should consider cycling or walking when Britain’s coronavirus lockdown is eased to take the pressure off public transport capacity that is likely to drop by 90 per cent under social distancing requirements, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Saturday (9). He also announced a “once in a generation”…
THE first Air India flight from the UK, scheduled as part of the “Vande Bharat Mission” to repatriate Indians stranded overseas due to the coronavirus lockdown, took off from London’s Heathrow Airport on Saturday (9). About 250 Indian students and tourists were seen queuing with their luggage at the airport…
