Desi students pay 3x pre-Covid fares for winter trip home from US, UK
Indian students studying abroad continue to bear the brunt of travel restrictions imposed by India on scheduled airline international flights. The latest comes in the form of high airfares for return to India during the winter holiday around year-end. With high demand and low supply, return airfare for travel to India from countries such as... Read More
Afghanistan, Indo-Pacific on agenda of British Foreign Secretary, Chief of Defence Staff visit agenda
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and outgoing Chief of Defence Staff General Nick Carter will visit India this week even as the Indo-U.K. naval exercises involving the Carrier Strike Group (CSG) in the Bay of Bengal gets underway from October 21-27, and ahead of a pending visit by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, sources said... Read More
Authorities call fatal stabbing of UK lawmaker terrorist act
Police say the stabbing of a long-serving member of Parliament during a meeting with constituents was a terrorist incident, and that they believe the attacker acted alone. The Metropolitan Police said in a statement released early Saturday that the early investigation into the slaying of Conservative lawmaker David Amess “has revealed a potential motivation linked... Read More
Not just UK, over 30 nations now recognise India’s Covid-19 vaccine certificate
Meanwhile, India on Thursday administered more than 27 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccines; with this, the number of vaccine doses given so far across the country has crossed 97 crores. Apart from Britain, more than 30 countries across the world have now agreed to mutually recognise India’s Covid-19 vaccine certificate, according to officials familiar with... Read More
UK to Allow Cheaper Covid ‘LFT’ Test Instead of PCR for Returning Vaccinated Travellers, Including India
Fully vaccinated travellers returning to England from countries, not on the travel ban red list can take a COVID-19 negative Lateral Flow Test (LFT) instead of the more expensive Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test under new rules effective from October 24. Travellers vaccinated in over 100 countries and territories, including India, will also be treated... Read More
After Malabar, UK carrier strike group comes to India for exercise
Even as the high-voltage quadrilateral Malabar naval exercise in the Bay of Bengal concluded on Friday, the UK’s aircraft carrier strike group led by the new 65,000-tonne HMS Queen Elizabeth entered the waters for a bilateral exercise with India. The first tri-Service exercise with the UK, centred around aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth with its... Read More
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Air India Unions raise concerns about cash, leave, medical benefits, accommodation of employees & arrears
Air India Unions have demanded that employees should be allowed to stay in airline flats till monetization or at least for a year as Tatas are giving a one-year employment guarantee Air India Unions in a joint letter to Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation raise concerns about cash, leave, medical benefits, accommodation of employees &... Read More
India resumes vaccine exports as domestic stocks build up
Tata Motors will invest over $2 billion in its electric vehicle (EV) business over the next five years, a company executive said on Tuesday after the automaker announced it had raised funds from private equity firm TPG. Tata Motors said TPG’s Rise Climate Fund and Abu Dhabi state holding company ADQ had agreed to invest about $1... Read More
UK foreign secy’s visit Boosting trade, Indo-Pacific security to top agenda
Truss is expected to review bilateral ties with her Indian counterpart S Jaishankar and meet top business leaders in New Delhi and Mumbai during her three-day visit. Boosting trade and investment, including negotiations for an interim early harvest deal, and security cooperation across the Indo-Pacific are expected to top the agenda during UK foreign secretary... Read More