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Human trial begins of Imperial College London's candidate Covid-19 vaccine

Imperial College London's vaccine candidate is being developed and trialled with the help of more than £41 million in funding from the UK government and a further £5 million in philanthropic donations

UK police launches probe after multiple stabbings reported in Reading

Police blocked off several roads, and photos showed two air ambulances nearby

UK ditches homegrown Covid-19 tracing app to use Google-Apple model

A smartphone app developed by the National Health Service (NHS) was initially expected to be rolled out nationwide in May but did not materialise.

India may not alter cornavirus treatment protocol to add drug hailed in UK

Trial results in Britain showed dexamethasone reduced death rates by around a third among the most severely ill Covid-19 patients admitted to hospital

After record loss, Tata Motors to scout for partner in car business

Company embarks on aggressive deleveraging exercise even as it has cut capex for India business this fiscal

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp to cut jobs in UK newspaper, radio biz: Report

"In the coming months, we will need to streamline the business and take some tough decisions, saying goodbye to some valued and talented colleagues," Brooks said in the letter seen by Reuters

Churchill's statue vandalised in London during Black Lives Matter protests

Activists surrounded the monument and jeered "Churchill was a racist", despite others intervening to protect it from further defacement

In pics: Protesters scrawled "was a racist" on the statue of Churchill

The same statue was also defaced with green graffiti during a huge anti-racism rally on Saturday, the 76th anniversary of D-Day

UK plans new 5G club of 10 democracies, including India, says report

The group will aim to create alternative suppliers of 5G equipment and other technologies to avoid relying on China

EasyJet to cut a third of workforce as Covid-19 pandemic hits travel

The airline said it expects to have reduced its fleet size by around 51 aircraft to approximately 302 by the end of September.

UK expands visa reprieve for Covid-19 stranded foreigners to July 31

Those who contact the Home Office for these visa extensions will be expected to return to their home countries as soon as possible once flight and border restrictions are lifted

PNB scam: Nirav Modi's extradition case in UK adjourned till September 7

From the legal documents submitted, prison conditions in India will once again play a major part in this extradition case, as in the past, when the hearing resumes in September

Suman Kumar: The decorated CBI officer who brought Vijay Mallya down

Kumar is now an additional superintendent of police in the country's premier investigation agency

Uber loses $2.9 bn in coronavirus crisis, drops bike and scooter business

Demand for the Eats business grew 89 per cent in April, excluding India, and we've seen an enormous acceleration in demand since mid-March, Khosrowshahi said

Govt likely to pledge Rs 3-trn in loans to MSMEs amid Covid-19 outbreak

Small firms will be eligible to borrow an additional 20 per cent of their credit limit. The extra debt will be fully backed by the government

Tata Group-owned Jaguar-Land Rover to revive largest plant by mid-May

JLR's factories around the world will opened in a sequential manner that will be determined by the conditions and government laws around the coronavirus epidemic

Story in numbers: Lockdown pushes tourism, hospitality to brink of collapse

Thus, foreign tourist arrivals in India, which saw a 9% decline in February 2020 (1.02 million) over January (1.12 million), and a 7% fall from February 2019 (1.09 million), further plummeted in March

Covid-19 Factoid: Surge in Iran's critical cases, and UK's grim milestone

While the UK has become the sixth country in the world to have more than 100,000 positive coronavirus cases, the share of critical cases in Iran's total is unusually high

UK High Court defers bankruptcy plea by SBI-led banks against Vijay Mallya

This bankruptcy petition is by any measure extraordinary. The banks are pressing for a bankruptcy order at a time when there are extant proceedings in India, read the judgment

Covid-19: Boris Johnson shifted to intensive care unit as symptoms worsen

The Prime Minister has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is the First Secretary of State, to deputise for him where necessary," the spokesperson said