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Sunday, September 14, 2025
TopicUnited Kingdom

Topic: United Kingdom

UK economy plunges into deep recession, shrinks 20.4% between April and June

Reacting to Office for National Statistics data, UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the figures confirm that hard times were here and warned about more job losses in the coming months.

Boris Johnson wants kids back in school so their parents can get back to work

Parents are bearing the brunt of the economic costs of the pandemic as they were forced to look after their children full time under lockdown in the UK.

Female sex hormone could offer protection against Covid, says study by King’s College London

The researchers, who studied around 6 lakh women for 5 weeks, also found that women who took contraceptive pills had a lower predicted rate of Covid.

Smell-loss survey suggests Covid is widespread in UK’s health workers

About two-thirds of the London NHS staffers surveyed reported diminished ability to taste or smell, a prominent, early Covid symptom, shows new research.

Twitter begins to label handles of govt officials, state media for more transparency

The policy will start with the UNSC’s 5 permanent members, where Twitter feeds of state-backed media and officials will be labeled as 'government accounts'.

‘Was too fat’, says Boris Johnson during launch of UK’s new health program to tackle obesity

Boris Johnson says the Better Health Strategy is a sympathetic understanding and approach to losing weight.

Why UK’s response to coronavirus has been world-class

The most important factor in the global response to Covid-19 has to be progress on the biomedical front, and on that score the UK receives stellar marks.

After Pompeo visit, British MPs to ask Boris Johnson to get even tougher on China

Pompeo is set to meet MPs who want sanctions on Chinese officials cut the Asian superpower from Britain’s nuclear power program.

UK suspends extradition treaty, imposes arms embargo on Hong Kong over security law

UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the suspension will stay until robust safeguards to prevent extraditions being misused under the new legislation are in place.

Boris Johnson wants Britons to get back to work – from office

UK PM Boris Johnson said he hopes to ease the remaining lockdown restrictions and return to normality by November, possibly in time for Christmas.

On Camera

Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous

It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.