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COVID ‘firepower’: UK imposes six-month curbs against second wave

by Monitor News DeskLatest NewsLead StoriesSeptember 22, 2020September 22, 2020

LONDON:British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told people on Tuesday to work from home where possible and ordered restaurants to close early to tackle a fast-spreading second wave of COVID-19 with…

LeT militant linked to 2007 UK airport attack mastermind in NIA custody

by IANSIndiaIndiaLatest NewsNewsAugust 29, 2020August 29, 2020

New Delhi: In a major breakthrough, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant, who is closely related to the mastermind of the 2007 Glasgow airport attack, after…

US,UK,Germany should prepare for prolonged periods of instability: Study

by Monitor News BureauBusinessLatest NewsJune 29, 2020June 29, 2020

London: Countries like the US, the UK and Germany should prepare for a long slow recovery with prolonged periods of instability in the wake on Covid-19 pandemic, a new research has…

Covid-19: India surpasses UK to become fourth worst-hit country

by Monitor News BureauLatest NewsJune 12, 2020June 12, 2020

New Delhi: India recorded over 10,000 new COVID-19 cases in a day for the first time, taking the tally to 2,97,535, while the death toll rose to 8,498 with a…

Boris Johnson stable, spends second night in ICU

by AgenciesLatest NewsWorldApril 8, 2020April 8, 2020

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was spending a second night in intensive care battling the coronavirus which has infected more than 55,000 across the country and killed nearly 6,200.“He…

Covid19: Journalists designated among ‘key services’ in UK

by AgenciesLatest NewsMarch 20, 2020March 20, 2020

London, Mar 20: Journalists and broadcasters providing public service broadcasting have been included in the list of professionals engaged in essential services whose children will still be able to go…

22 lakh coronavirus deaths in US, 5 lakh in UK, predicts British study

by AgenciesLatest NewsMarch 18, 2020March 18, 2020

A piece of research that helped convince the British government to impose more stringent measures to contain COVID-19 painted a worst case picture of hundreds of thousands of deaths and…

UK Health Minister Nadine Dorries diagnosed with coronavirus

by AgenciesLatest NewsWorldMarch 11, 2020March 11, 2020

UK Health Minister and Conservative MP Nadine Dorries has said she has been diagnosed with coronavirus. Dorries, the first MP to test positive, said she had taken all the advised…