LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has tested positive for Covid, his wife said on Monday, as she battles his extradition to the United States. “Julian was feeling unwell last week but started feeling sick on Friday,” Stella Assange was quoted as saying by the Press Association news agency. “He started coughing and had a fever. […]
LONDON: The pound briefly jumped on Monday on news Britain would reverse plans to cut the highest rate of income tax, one contentious part of a package of financial measures that last month sent sterling and British government bonds tumbling. “It is clear that the abolition of the 45p tax rate has become a distraction […]
On Monday, an embattled Kwarteng announced he would not go ahead with plans to abolish the 45p additional tax for those who earn above £150,000 (Rs 1.3 crore) annually in the UK following a growing backlash from the members of his own Conservative party and the public who had branded the move as a tax […]
LONDON: The Indian High Commission here has said that it is investigating reports of unauthorised agents illegally charging fees to get visas processed for travellers to India, amid reports of a severe visa crunch faced by British tourists to the country. While British travellers booked to fly out to India in the coming weeks have […]
LONDON: The Indian high commission here has rejected claims from travel agents that it changed its UK tourist visa rules at the last minute, throwing the holidays of thousands of British holidaymakers into doubt, and instead maintains British applicants have always been required to present themselves in person at VFS Centres. The mission said: “Individual […]
LONDON: More than 300,000 members of Britain’s largest nursing union will begin voting on Thursday over a strike to demand a pay rise that keeps up with soaring inflation, the biggest ballot in its 106-year history. The Royal College of Nursing said it had been forced into the move after years of real-terms wage cuts […]
LONDON: Thousands of British holidaymakers are being forced to cancel holidays in India owing to a last-minute change in visa rules requiring them to present themselves in person at visa centres in the UK to apply for tourist visas, but there are no appointments available before their flights depart. Until now thousands of British holidaymakers […]
LONDON: Britain’s Indian-origin Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has cast doubts over a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) with India over the issue of migration and branded Indians as the “largest group of people who overstay” their visas in the UK. Expressing concerns over what she feared would be an “open borders” migration policy in an […]
LONDON: The Indian High Commission here on Thursday countered UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman‘s claim that the Migration and Mobility Partnership (MMP) had not “worked very well” to say that India had initiated action on all cases raised with it under the agreement. In response to a PTI query about Braverman‘s interview in ‘The Spectator’ […]
LONDON: Three people were stabbed in Bishopsgate near Liverpool Street Station in central London, however, the case is not being treated as terror-related, said London Police. The police received the information pertaining to the stabbing at 9:46 am. Soon after the police reached the spot at 9.51 am. The three victims of the stabbing were […]
