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London: British Indian journalist and author Anita Anand’s book that tells the story of a young man caught up in the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar has won a prestigious history-literary prize in the UK. The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj’ beat six other titles for the PEN […]

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have asked their Brexit negotiators to resume talks between the two sides will reconvene in Brussels on Sunday. “Significant differences remain on three critical issues: level playing field, governance and fisheries,” Johnson and von der Leyen said in a joint statement. […]

London: Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old woman from Northern Ireland on Tuesday became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine – marking the start of the UK’s mass vaccination programme against the deadly disease. Keenan, from Enniskillen, said she felt “so privileged” to receive the jab at University Hospital, Coventry. Keenan became […]

New Delhi: Five passengers from the UK who arrived here at Indira Gandhi International Airport on Monday night have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, sources told IANS on Tuesday. These passengers have been sent to Sardar Patel Covid Centre in Chattarpur. A total of 250 passengers who arrived last night and have undergone the […]

Bhubaneswar: Passengers with travel history of UK and transiting through the airports in UK and returning to Odisha will be advised to remain in mandatory 14 days home quarantine with self-monitoring and periodic monitoring by the Rapid Response Team. This is part of the SOP released by Odisha government as per the protocols issued by […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid growing concern over the detection of a more contagious strain of Coronavirus in the United Kingdom, a man, who has recently flown in from the European country, has been identified in Bhubaneswar. He has been asked to stay in home quarantine, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner Prem Chandra Choudhury informed. The UK returnee […]

London: Britain clinched a historic deal with the European Union on Thursday as both sides managed to thrash out a post-Brexit free trade agreement (FTA) just days before the December 31 deadline. Thousands of pages of legal text accompanies the deal, with details of the agreement set to emerge in the course of the next […]

Bhubaneswar: A four-year-old child, who had recently returned to Bhubaneswar from the United Kingdom (UK) has tested positive for COVID-19, official sources said on Friday. As per reports, the girl along with her parents had returned to Odisha from UK on December 20. Though the COVID-19 reports of the girl’s parents stated negative, she has […]

Puri: The health sector in Odisha has undergone a sea of transformation and strict observance of COVID-19 guidelines by people in Odisha can combat any spread of new mutant Coronavirus strain first detected in the United Kingdom (UK), said Suresh Mohapatra, the newly appointed Chief Secretary. In an exclusive interview to OTV, Mohapatra said that […]

London: Britain recorded more than 50,000 coronavirus cases overnight for the first time since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in the world, according to official figures released on Tuesday. Another 53,135 people in Britain have tested positive for Covid-19, marking a new record daily increase in coronavirus cases in the country, according to the […]

London: Britain and the European Union (EU) have started a new chapter in their relationship as the Brexit transition period ended on Thursday. In an earlier message, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged Britain to seize the moment as the country embarks on a new journey as an independent global trading nation. “The destiny of […]

New Delhi: Just when our hopes about the vaccine for COVID19 were becoming a reality, the UK government announced the discovery of a highly contagious new variant circulating in England. Citing the rapid spread of the virus through London and surrounding areas, Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed the country’s most stringent lockdown. Scientists are worried […]

London: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has invited his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for the G7 summit as he confirmed details on Sunday for the high-level meeting to be presided over by Britain in the coastal region of Cornwall between June 11 and 13. Johnson had extended an invitation to Modi during a phone call […]

New Delhi: BJP MP Ashwani Vaishnav on Monday raised the issue of racial discrimination in the UK — the latest being about an incident at the Oxford University. The issue concerns Rashmi Samant, a 22-year-old student from Karnataka’s Udupi. She contested the elections for Presidency of Student Union and won. However, following some of her […]

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to ensure high quality education for improved learner outcomes, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal has launched CBSE Assessment Framework for Science, Maths and English classes as part of CBSE Competency Based Education Project in New Delhi. The framework is aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP) vision of achieving global standard […]