Workshop Engineer
£32,000 per annum, inc benefits Barking, Essex Permanent, full-time Be one of the first ten applicants Workshop Engineer Barking £32000+Van+Overtime Are you an engineer from powered access, plant, material handling or the armed forces that wants professional development and opportunities to progress? Do you want to continuous professional development and opportunities to progress into field service... Read More
Indian-origin student Anvee Bhutani elected Oxford Student Union president
ANVEE BHUTANI, an Indian-origin human sciences student from Magdalen College at the University of Oxford, has pledged to fight for students’ rights in her role as the new president-elect of the Oxford Student Union (SU). Bhutani, who was declared the winner at the end of a closely fought byelection at the Oxford SU on Thursday... Read More
Indian variant threatens 3rd wave in UK as cases rise
There are growing concerns across the UK that the Indian variant of the Coronavirus could introduce a deadly third wave of the pandemic as the highly contagious mutation spreads further across the country. Over 3,400 infections of the mutation have so far been recorded by Public Health England (PHE), the government agency that monitors the... Read More
Support Worker – Children
£10.46 per hour Bridgwater, Somerset Permanent, full-time or part-time Be one of the first ten applicants Do you have a passion for caring? Then we want you! We’re recruiting for a dedicated Support Worker to join our team in Bridgwater, Taunton, Wellington and the surrounding areas, delivering quality care in the home. This role involves working... Read More
Data Analyst
£50,000 – £60,000 per annum Camden, London Permanent, full-time Be one of the first ten applicants Data Analyst – FinTech Start-up A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Data Analyst to join a successful and growing FinTech startup company based in Central London. This innovative organisation are using advanced analytics, data driven insights and machine learning... Read More
UK pilot and Khalsa Aid volunteer Jaspal Singh honoured by Prime Minister Boris Johnson
A UK pilot and Khalsa Aid volunteer, Jaspal Singh, has been honoured by Prime Minister Boris Johnson with the Points of Light award. Jaspal, who is a pilot with Virgin Atlantic, volunteered to fly 200 donated oxygen concentrators to India to help in the country’s battle against COVID-19. PM Johnson wrote a personal letter to... Read More
Indian variant’s transmissibility edge might be smaller than feared, UK expert says
The transmissibility advantage of the B.1.617.2 variant first identified in India might be a little lower than first feared, a leading British epidemiologist said on Wednesday, but vaccines might be less effective at limiting its spread. “There’s… a glimmer of hope from the recent data that, whilst this variant does still appear to have a... Read More
India orders removal of content referring to ‘Indian variant’
India’s government has ordered social media platforms to take down content that refers to the “Indian variant” of the coronavirus. The B.1.617.1 (previously called B.1.617) variant was first detected in India last year and has been blamed for much of the devastating Covid-19 wave that has battered south Asian nations in recent weeks. It has... Read More
2 Vaccine Doses Effective Against Variant In India, 1 Shot Just 33%: UK
A study by Public Health England found the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was 88% effective against the coronavirus variant first found in India. A double dose of COVID-19 vaccines is almost as effective against the fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus first identified in India as it is against Britain’s dominant strain, English health officials said on Saturday.... Read More
Moving Covid shots to India could benefit UK children, suggests vaccine advisor
The United Kingdom has administered at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to more than 55 per cent of the country’s population. An expert on the immunisation advisory committee for the UK government has suggested that moving Covid-19 vaccines from Britain to countries like India could benefit children back home. Speaking at BBC Breakfast,... Read More