Johnson Government In Trouble: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson named Education Secretary, Nadhim Zahawi, as the new Finance Minister late on Tuesday. Earlier, Rishi Sunak of Indian origin had resigned from the post of Finance Minister. Downing Street said that Queen Elizabeth II has approved Jahavi’s appointment. Born in Iraq, Jahvi came to Britain as […]
Boris Johnson in Crisis: After a crushing defeat in the by-election to the ruling Conservative Party in Britain, another rebellion started on Saturday against Prime Minister Boris Johnson among the party leadership. Johnson suffered three major setbacks when the party suffered defeats in Tiverton and Honeyton in southern England and Wakefield in northern England, considered […]
Monkeypox In UK: UK health officials have detected another 104 cases of monkeypox in the country and cases are now emerging outside Africa as well. Britain’s Health Protection Agency said on Monday that there are now 470 cases of monkeypox nationwide, most of them in gay or ‘bisexual’ men. Scientists have warned that any person […]
Monkeypox Virus: A UK health official said on Sunday that Britain is seeing daily infections of the rare monkeypox virus. This is related to any travel to West Africa, where the disease is endemic. After 20 cases were reported on Friday, the UK Health Protection Agency (UKHSA) said new figures would be released on Monday. […]
In India, of course, people flout the traffic rules fiercely, the police avoid taking action against expensive cars, but in Britain, there is a lot of strictness regarding traffic rules. How strictly the rules are followed here, it can be gauged from the fact that the Land Rover owner has to pay a fine of […]
Vijay Mallya’s family will be able to retain possession of their luxurious house in London. A UK court has ruled that debt refinancing by a family trust company is an acceptable transaction. Rose Capital Ventures (RCV), a British Virgin Islands company affiliated to the Mallya family trust, had filed an application in this regard in […]
LahorePrime Minister Imran Khan on Friday admitted that allowing former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to go abroad for treatment is the “biggest mistake” of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government. Sharif, 72, is currently in London, where he is undergoing treatment since November 2019. The health of the former prime minister and the main opposition Pakistan Muslim […]
UK citizens detained: The UK government said on Saturday that a large number of British nationals were being detained in Afghanistan and raised the issue with the country’s Taliban officials. The statement by the foreign ministry came a day after the Taliban released two detained foreign journalists, including a former BBC correspondent. The ministry said, […]
The ironic response from Richard Moore, the director of the British secret service, comes in a context of tensions between the United Kingdom and China caused in particular by the treatment of the Uyghurs and the resumption of political control of Hong Kong. “Pond, James Pond“: China parody 007 and MI6 does not find it […]