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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Topic: United Kingdom

‘Show us the science’: UK wants more transparency in Boris Johnson’s Covid strategy

Support is slipping for Johnson as UK recorded the world's second-highest number of deaths after a week of confused messages over relaxing the lockdown.

UK GDP shrinks by 2% amid Covid-19 crisis, biggest quarterly decline since 2008

The fall was the biggest since the financial crisis of 2008 and included a contraction of 5.8 per cent in the March GDP alone, the biggest monthly fall on record.

UK set to ease lockdown on 11 May as PM Johnson comes under pressure to get economy running

UK govt is drawing up guidance for employers on how to return to work safely as it tries to mitigate the economic damage caused by the coronavirus crisis.

Covid-19 deaths decline in Europe as countries begin to ease out of lockdown

UK reported 315 deaths from Covid-19, down from the 621 confirmed a day before. Italy, Spain, Germany and France also reported their lowest fatalities since March.

PM Boris Johnson returns to work today but it still isn’t clear when UK can

With lockdowns being partially lifted on the European continent, PM Boris Johnson is under pressure to move Britain also to the next phase.

Boris Johnson won’t have to pay hospital bills. And it’s not because he is PM

Johnson must thank former PM Clement Attlee and his three main goals for the UK.

UK begins world’s biggest Covid-19 trial to zero in on treatment, results likely by June

The RECOVERY trial will be conducted by Oxford University researchers, and has already enlisted around 5,300 coronavirus patients.

It won’t be ‘business as usual’ with China after Covid-19, UK says

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said UK has seen good cooperation from China but there were ‘hard questions’ to be answered about how it started.

UK prepares to extend lockdown as coronavirus cases continue to rise

UK Foreign Secy Dominic Raab, standing in for British PM Boris Johnson, will chair a crucial meeting Thursday during which the Cabinet will finalise plans for an extension.

UK coronavirus death toll rises to 12,868

The latest figures reveal that out of the 313,769 who have been tested across the country, 98,476 people have tested positive for Covid-19.

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.