To meet King Charles III, address the nation at 4 pm London: Indian-origin Rishi Sunak will be the new Prime Minister of Britain. On Monday, the Conservative Party’s parliamentary party elected Sunak as the leader. King Charles-III will hand over the PM’s appointment letter to Sunak today (Tuesday). Rishi Sunak, who describes himself as a…
Mysore/Mysuru: In separate cases, a student and a woman have been cheated to the tune of Rs. 11,39,696 by online fraudsters. In the first case, fraudsters have cheated a 24-year-old student of 2,000 pounds (about Rs. 1,85,696) on the pretext of getting him an accommodation in the United Kingdom (UK). The student, who has been…
If you find yourself with a decent period of free time, it is more than likely that someone is going to suggest to you that you try and go travelling. After all, this is in no way a bad suggestion. Being able to see different countries is one of life’s best enjoyments. People who travel…
By C.P. Belliappa Charles, Prince of Wales, the heir to the throne of United Kingdom (UK), has visited India 10 times till date. One of his visits was in 1980, and one of the States where he was a State Guest was Orissa. My father, C.M. Poonacha, was the Governor of Orissa at the time….
New Delhi: Minister of External Affairs (MEA) has said the Indian Government will liaise with authorities in the United Kingdom for the early extradition of Nirav Modi after a British Court ordered the jailed diamond merchant’s extradition to India to face charges of fraud and money laundering. The UK Court had ordered Nirav Modi to…
Earlier last week it was announced that after a five-day visit to Delhi, the UK has secured a long-awaited post-Brexit trade partnership with India. On 10 February, the Department for International Trade (DIT) confirmed that Liz Truss, Cabinet Minister had agreed to terms of an Enhanced Trade Partnership (ETP) and laid the groundwork for a…
Britain will start vaccinating people next week London: The United Kingdom (UK) today became the first country to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, paving the way for mass vaccinations against the deadly Coronavirus. The British regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), says the jab, which claims to offer up to 95…
By M.T. Yogesh Kumar Indian doctors have often been referred to as the backbone of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS), with an estimated 60,000 medics from India working for the State-funded health service. It is doctors like Mysuru-origin Sankeerthana Subramaniam who are the ones leading the fight against COVID-19. The frontline in this…
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC An email from an Indian in the UK: My salary in UK is 61,000 pounds per annum without tax. (61,000 x 80 = INR 48,80,000). I pay 40 percent tax on my salary. 48,80,000 – 19,52,000 = INR 29,28,000 balance. Then 700 pounds per month as house rent,…
Mysurean Swetha Singh crowned ‘Mrs. South India-2017’ first runner-up City’s Swetha Singh, who resides at Manchester in United Kingdom, emerged as the first runner-up in the recently concluded ‘Mrs. South India’ pageant organised by Mrs. India Pageants and Productions Pvt. Limited at Chennai. Being one of the top executives of a software company, Swetha has…
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