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Prince William and Kate welcome Ukraine president at palace

9:23 pm October 7, 2020

London: London’s Buckingham Palace held its first royal event in more than six months on Wednesday as Prince William and his wife Kate welcomed Ukraine’s president and his wife. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge greeted Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his wife Olena in a brief meeting at the palace’s Throne Room on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II. The two couples did not wear […]

Current job hard enough: Rishi Sunak dismisses UK PM role speculation

10:31 pm October 5, 2020

London: UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Monday dismissed speculation around him taking over as Britain’s first Indian-origin Prime Minister, as he stressed that his job as the finance minister of the country was hard enough. With his handling of a Covid-hit economy scoring high, there has been growing media speculation in recent weeks around Sunak, dubbed “Dishy […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

UK says tech glitch missed 15,841 COVID-19 cases

7:55 pm October 5, 2020

London: A technical glitch has resulted in 15,841 positive cases of coronavirus not being counted in the official daily of COVID-19 log in the past week, England’s health authority has admitted. Public Health England (PHE) said the issue had been identified overnight on Friday, and a rapid investigation calculated the list of cases that had […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Indian diaspora groups in UK rally against new ‘fringe’ group on Kashmir

10:13 pm October 1, 2020

London: Indian diaspora organisations are rallying against a new “fringe” Conservative Party group on Kashmir and have issued letters to the ruling party headquarters, copies of which have also been sent to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel. The protest follows the revival of a so-called “Conservative Friends of Kashmir” group, announced on social media last week by seven […]

British PM forced to defend India travel ban timing over Delta variant in Parliament

Boris Johnson says UK at ‘critical moment’ in coronavirus fight

11:59 pm September 30, 2020

London: Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday said the UK is at a “critical moment” in its fight to control the spread of coronavirus, as a further 71 deaths took the country’s death toll from the deadly virus to 42,143. Addressing a briefing from 10 Downing Street in London, Johnson struck a sombre note as he called for “collective forbearance, common sense […]