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Bernard Looney, the chief executive at BP (British Petroleum) is the latest to resign over an investigation launched into alleged relationships he may have had with colleagues.(Representational Image: DC)

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Will Gulf sheikh take over ManU?

18 Sep 2023 12:00 AM

A woman runs across London Bridge, backdropped by Tower Bridge, as she exercises in central London. (Representational image / AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Of free speech and the Left, of Asians in UK & ‘cancel culture’

All The Spectator’s writers, boobies and cry-babies, protest against the “cancel culture” which denies the likes of Suella a platform

25 Mar 2023 12:14 AM

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Bleak Christmas in Sunak’s Britain

Mr Sunak has little cause to celebrate his days at 10 Downing Street surpassing the short-lived tenure of his predecessor Liz Truss

17 Dec 2022 12:15 AM

The goal of a digital government is to transform the analogue, paper-based, legacy systems traditionally used to interact with citizens and to make public services work better, faster, smarter and centred on citizens’ needs. — By arrangement

Global Firm SILVERSEVEN Fighting Corruption using Emerging Technologies

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07 Sep 2021 9:18 PM

As the saying goes, Britannia may have ruled the waves and now it has disastrously decided to waive the rules (Representational Image: AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | At last, Britain is free of EU… Now see who’ll make it great!

The EU was the insurance and safeguard against the global dominance of the American and Chinese hegemonies

02 Jan 2021 12:15 AM

Participants wave British and U.S. flags during a rally demanding electoral democracy and call for boycott of the Chinese Communist Party and all businesses seen to support it in Hong Kong. (AP)

UK and China fight over Hong Kong security law

Britain’s decision to offer refuge to millions in Hong Kong, UK's former colony, was met with a stern telling-off by China

12 Jul 2020 1:00 PM

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had warned that new cases may come up in the future as New Zealanders return home. (AFP Photo)

New Zealand confirms two new cases ending coronavirus free run

The two new cases were women aged in their 30s and 40s who visited a dying parent in Wellington, the director general of health said

16 Jun 2020 3:22 PM

People sunbathe in Ostia beach, near Rome. (AP)

Europeans soak up the sun but travel rules cause confusion

European countries aim to open their borders for European travel in mid-June, but it isn’t clear when intercontinental travel will resume

25 May 2020 9:47 AM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson participates in a national "clap for carers" to show thanks for the work of Britain's NHS (National Health Service) workers and other frontline medical staff around the country as they battle with the novel coronavirus pandemic. (AFP)

UK confident COVID-19 tracking system will be in place before lockdown eased

Health workers have warned that any failure in tracing people with the virus and their contacts would result in a second deadly wave

22 May 2020 4:23 PM

A woman runs across London Bridge, backdropped by Tower Bridge, as she exercises in central London. (AFP)

Work and exercise restrictions ease in England

The pandemic has killed more than 36,000 people in Britain, according to official statistics

13 May 2020 2:52 PM

A medical staff member prepares to collect samples from a woman at a COVID-19 testing centre set up in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AFP)

French coronavirus death toll overtakes Spain's

France now stands as world's fourth-highest number of fatalities after the United States, Britain and Italy

13 May 2020 11:33 AM

Nirav Modi's extradition trial in PNB fraud case to begin in UK

The 49-year-old jeweller has been lodged at Wandsworth Prison in south-west London since his arrest in March last year

11 May 2020 12:54 PM

Britain's prime minister Boris Johnson. (Handout image released by 10 Downing Street)

No end to lockdown yet: Boris Johnson

Britain has, however, announced a limited easing of restrictions as the death rate and hospital admissions keeps falling

11 May 2020 11:12 AM

Clinical staff wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as they care for a patient at the Intensive Care unit at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge. (AFP)

UK overtakes Italy, reports highest coronavirus death toll in Europe

Only the United States, with a population nearly five times greater, has suffered more confirmed fatalities from the virus than Britain

06 May 2020 10:28 AM

A woman wearing a face mask as a precaution walks past a shop window on Oxford Street in London. (AFP)

Johnson readies plan to ease lockdown in UK with new office guidance

A total of 28,446 people have now died in Britain, almost on a par with Italy, Europe's worst affected country

04 May 2020 3:33 PM

A medical worker takes a swab to test for the novel coronavirus COVID-19 from a visitor to a drive-in testing facility at the Chessington World of Adventures Resort, in Chessington. (AFP)

UK shadows Italy as worst hit in Europe

United Kingdom’s COVID-19 death toll rose by 621 on Saturday to a total of 28,131 as of May 1

03 May 2020 11:04 AM

A medic wearing a protective suit collects a swab sample of a woman for COVID-19 testing. (PTI)

Indian origin doctors in UK at greater risk of virus infection

While 37 per cent of the UK’s doctors are foreign-born, nearly one in 10 are from India, all currently on the frontline of Covid fight

02 May 2020 12:09 PM

US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told the Munich Security Conference that Washington was already working with vendors to develop and test new 5G technologies. (Photo: AP)

Rebuffed by UK, US pitches 'big tent' for Huawei rivals in Europe

Huawei has repeatedly and vehemently denied the espionage allegations.

17 Feb 2020 7:13 AM

Ola is also launching the ‘Start Code’ security feature, a UK ride hailing first.

Ola launches market-leading safety features to set new standards for UK ride-hailing

Ola is piloting flagship feature, Guardian – which uses AI and machine learning to automatically detect irregular vehicle activity.

08 Feb 2020 12:06 PM

Such vendors will be excluded from core parts of development such as safety-related networks and sensitive geographic locations, such as nuclear sites and military bases. (Photo: AP)

Government won't ban 'high risk' Huawei in 5G development

UK said that it wants to take steps that would mitigate the risks of systems getting compromised, instead of banning high-risk vendors.

29 Jan 2020 6:39 AM

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