Many Indian students who planned to travel back home to be with their friends and family in India over the Christmas and New Year period are among those caught up in Monday’s suspension of all flights to and from the UK as the world reacts to a new rapid-spreading strain of coronavirus detected in parts…
At a time when daily COVID-19 cases in India are topping 25,000, a new survey conducted by a Delhi-based citizen survey platform has found that as many as 69 per cent Indians are reluctant to take the coronavirus vaccine immediately after it becomes widely available. The percent of Indians hesitant to be vaccinated immedately has…
Fake “Covid-19 immunity boosters” are being sold over the counter in London shops, a BBC investigation has found. Coronil, a herbal remedy from India, was found on sale in shops in predominantly Asian areas across the capital. Manufacturers Patanjali Ayurved claim the pills protect against “respiratory tract infections”. Tests carried out for the BBC show…
Agricultural reforms are India’s internal matter but the protests here are part of British politics too, said the visiting British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who “discussed” the ongoing farmers protests at Delhi’s borders during talks with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar. Mr. Raab, who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, said the U.K. respected…
The mental well-being of those in the Indian ethnic group in the UK may have been particularly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, an official statistical review has revealed. The mental well-being of those in the Indian ethnic group in the UK may have been particularly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, an official statistical review has…
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The first thing you notice when you walk into the room is the nonchalance with which everyone is grooving to the beat. It’s a muggy Mumbai evening in April 2019, the coronavirus and social distancing are almost a year away and the mirrored room in this dance studio in suburban Andheri West is teeming with…
Indians are proud of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, the first woman to reach the apex of power in the United States, and wish her success, said V Muraleedharan, Minister of State for External Affairs on Wednesday. Muraleedharan was addressing a virtual Pravasi Bharatiya Divas conference on the theme “Role of Diaspora in Promotion of Indian…
A prominent social activist here has requested the Indian authorities to initiate measures such as granting emergency visas on departure to help Indian-origin families travel to their homeland for health or other emergencies amid the COVID-19 pandemic. India’s aviation safety regulator DGCA has extended the suspension of scheduled international commercial passenger flights till December 31….
With the United Kingdom government approving the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, travel agencies in India have already started planning ‘vaccine tourism’ packages for Indians who want to travel to England to take the shots. Travel agencies such as Zenith Holidays in Kolkata, Gem Tours & Travels in Mumbai and Chariot World Tours in Bengaluru confirmed that…
