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Prince Charles leads silver jubilee tributes to UK's largest temple

Prince Charles has issued a special video message to mark the 25th anniversary of the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in north London

Coronavirus: Croatia among 3 more countries added to UK's quarantine list

The Portuguese government welcomed the changes as "useful for all those who travel between Portugal and the United Kingdom"

UK inflation unexpectedly rises to highest since March on oil prices

Consumer price inflation rose to 1.0 per cent in July from 0.6 per cent in June, the Office for National Statistics said

UK launches £3 mn innovation challenge in India to tackle Covid-19 pandemic

Applicants are required to submit bids as an academia-industry consortium, ideally with an international member

UK plans new specialist pandemic response health institute: Report

The UK government is planning to replace Public Health England (PHE) with a new specialist pandemic response insititute based on a German model in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak

Britain lines up more potential Covid-19 vaccines with J&J, Novavax deals

Britain and the United States are in the lead with six vaccine deals with drugmakers each, as companies and governments worldwide work overtime to find a vaccine against the pandemic disease

Airlines unhappy over UK reimposing quarantine on France, Netherlands

European airline shares tumbled on deepening concerns that the weaker than hoped travel recovery could yet stall or be reversed by new outbreaks and restrictions

Novavax to deliver 60 mn Covid-19 vaccine doses to UK for phase 3 trial

The trial will be a study in about 9,000 adults between 18 years and 85 years of age

World Coronavirus Dispatch: 90% spike in infections among American kids

UK's first recession since 2009, France's champagne industry goes flat, How China controlled Coronavirus, and other pandemic-related news across the globe

Hard times here, jobs will be lost, says Sunak as UK plunges into recession

It marks the first time in 11 years that the UK has tipped into a recession, which is defined by two consecutive three-month periods of falling GDP

World Coronavirus Dispatch: UK to send contact tracers door to door

Infections stabilise in Australia's epicentre, big US firms to boost hiring of minorities, UK job losses worst since 2009 and other pandemic-related across the globe

OCI card holders from US, UK, Germany, France can visit India: Govt

Other foreigners from these countries have also been allowed to avail Indian visa facility for business, medical and employment purposes

US lifts Covid-19 travel advisory; urges citizens not to visit India, China

India remains on the Level 4 of the travel advisory along with more than 50 countries, including China

UK lawmakers urge govt to impose sanctions over Hong Kong police violence

UK lawmakers have urged the govt to sanction Hong Kong's leader for allowing excessive police violence toward humanitarian workers helping those injured in pro-democracy protests

Wockhardt plans to supply Covid-19 vaccines to UK; shares jump 10%

The firm has reserved fill-and-finish capacity - the final manufacturing step of putting vaccines into vials or syringes and packaging them - as part of the agreement, it said

UK rolls out 2 new rapid Covid-19 tests to increase testing capacity

Oxford Nanopore will be making 450,000 90-minute LamPORE swab tests available across adult care settings and labs in Britain from next week

Indian-origin Prem Sikka, Ian Botham new peers in UK's House of Lords

Indian-origin academic Prem Sikka, an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Sheffield in northern England, is among 36 new peers in the UK's House of Lords

Punjab National Bank's UK unit wins court battle over unpaid loans

The case by the UK subsidiary of PNB is seen as a landmark decision for similar cases involving wilful defaulters who are residing in or have assets in the UK

UK PM Boris Johnson rides made-in-India bike at launch of cycling drive

Hero Cycles took over the brands Viking, Riddick and Ryedale and redesigned the range under the brand name Insync

Covid-19: Boris Johnson accepts he could have done things differently

He has pledged to hold an inquiry into his handling of the coronavirus crisis but not yet.