COVID CHAOS IN UK
Britain's Labour on track for landslide victory, exit poll suggests, amid anger with Conservatives The poll released moments after voting closed indicated that center-left Labour's leader Keir Starmer will be the country's next prime minister. He will face a jaded electorate impatient for change against a gloomy backdrop of economic malaise, moun...
05 Jul, 2024, 11.20 AM ISTBritain's Labour Party has won enough seats to have a majority in the UK Parliament Starmer will face a jaded electorate impatient for change against a gloomy backdrop of economic malaise, mounting distrust in institutions and a fraying social fabric. "Tonight people here and around the country have spoken, and they're ready for ch...
05 Jul, 2024, 11.20 AM ISTUK elections: Economic warnings dominate as campaign enters final day Britain's Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak warned voters of dire economic consequences ahead of the national election. Starmer's Labour Party is poised for a big win, potentially ending 14 years of Conservative rule. Labour urges voters not to be compla...
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In the UK election campaign's final hours, Sunak battles to the end as Labour's Starmer eyes victory Rishi Sunak, the current UK prime minister, is facing a national election on Thursday, marking the end of his 20-month tenure and the four Conservative prime ministers before him. The Labour Party is expected to elect a government that has not been ...
03 Jul, 2024, 10.39 AM ISTUK's Rishi Sunak offers more tax cuts as election polls refuse to budge With his Conservative Party consistently about 20 points behind Keir Starmer's opposition Labour in the polls, Sunak made a new appeal on Tuesday to what one Conservative lawmaker described as Britain's carpenters, bricklayers and electricians, by p...
12 Jun, 2024, 12.12 AM ISTCovid chaos in UK: Deaths skyrocket, patients pile into packed hospitals. Know what WHO has advised According to the UK Health Security Agency, an increase of 598 new hospitalization cases has been recorded in the last seven days. This is, an 18.7% rise on the seven days prior, a total of 3,800 for that week overall.
09 Jan, 2024, 10.15 PM ISTUK to toughen gambling rules for smartphone era British media have reported the measures will include banning under-25s from betting more than 2 pounds ($2.49) per spin online, as well as forcing gambling firms to better scrutinise the financial resilience of punters.
28 Apr, 2023, 01.04 AM ISTUK budget: Economy set to avoid recession this year, Hunt says Under a new set of forecasts, gross domestic product was set to shrink by 0.2% in 2023 rather than contract by 1.4% as projected in November by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), Hunt told parliament.
15 Mar, 2023, 08.01 PM ISTFed’s all-clear on global supply chaos spurned by logistics watchers Fed has said that the stress on the global supply chains has eventually returned to normal, in fact below normal levels.
10 Mar, 2023, 10.08 AM ISTWill it be high tea with Rishi? Here's what may work to Sunak’s advantage We should not forget that there is a reason why the ruling party has, since 2010, squandered its prestige with so many far-fetched experiments. Those experiments served a real electoral purpose in a rapidly declining country.
25 Oct, 2022, 10.33 PM ISTWHO: COVID triples across Europe, hospitalizations double WHO on Tuesday said that coronavirus cases have tripled across Europe in the past six weeks, accounting for nearly half of all infections globally.
19 Jul, 2022, 05.15 PM ISTNew UK finance minister Nadhim Zahawi pledges to boost economy Zahawi, who took over the Treasury on Tuesday after the resignation of Rishi Sunak in protest against embattled Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said "nothing is off the table". But the former education minister also faced questions about whether he wo...
07 Jul, 2022, 12.56 AM ISTEurope becomes the epicenter for this summer's travel chaos Governments are taking note and taking action, as are financial markets. Investors are selling airline bonds as an industry that was supposed to profit from pent up demand for travel instead contends with upheaval again.
02 Jul, 2022, 01.00 AM ISTSingapore's $14 billion mega-port takes aim at shipping chaos The just-in-time system for shipping has broken down as exporters in Asia face obstacles getting goods transported to customers in the US and Europe, and the situation has only worsened this year with Covid lockdowns in China and the war in Ukraine.
30 Jun, 2022, 09.13 AM ISTUK says it will work with aviation industry to solve travel chaos Airlines had hoped for a bumper summer for passengers after two years of COVID-19 travel restrictions. But they have struggled to recruit staff after the turmoil of the pandemic, and complain it is taking longer to recruit new employees and vet them...
05 Jun, 2022, 04.25 PM ISTExpect more shipping chaos as Omicron forces transport workers to quit The workers are facing weeks of quarantine combined with the fears of getting sick. This is leading to people refusing to take on work.
28 Dec, 2021, 09.46 AM ISTDelhi airport sets up 20 counters for international flyers who have pre-booked Covid test to ease 'chaos' Countries in Europe including the UK, South Africa, Brazil, Botswana, China, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore and Israel have been placed in the 'at-risk' category by the Union Health Ministry.
04 Dec, 2021, 09.23 PM ISTUK leaders hail a return to normal; their phone app disagrees In a week when Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised England a return to normality after months of lockdown, a coronavirus-weary nation has instead been battered by a new crisis.
23 Jul, 2021, 11.59 AM ISTUK-India flights resume, chaos at Delhi airport as govt modifies quarantine rule belatedly Passenger flights resumed from the UK to India in limited numbers from Friday onwards after remaining suspended for 16 days due to the emergence of a new coronavirus variant in that country.
08 Jan, 2021, 09.02 PM ISTChaos at Delhi, Mumbai airports as quarantine & testing resume The rule, according to the Maharashtra government circular, is that all passengers will stay at the hotels for seven days and tested between the fifth and seventh day when the viral load is supposedly high.
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