Some useful information based on the journey experience (London Heathrow BA – Hyderabad) – 17July. Long read for those planning to travel to India/Hyderabad. Covered our experience into 3 categories. A.Before the travel 1. Give Covid test within 72 hours of your flight (RT-PCR Fit to Fly Test), we paid £99 each but later realised…
UK health officials said the Delta variant of COVID-19 continues as the dominant strain of coronavirus and marked a sharp increase in the UK with 54,268 more cases logged on Friday, which marks a 32 per cent increase over the previous week. Public Health England (PHE) said its weekly analysis shows the continued rise in infections is…
Based on average fully-loaded employee costs of USD 25,000 per annum for India-based resources and USD 50,000 for US resources, this will release around USD 100 billion in annual salaries and associated expenses for corporates, the report says. With automation taking place at a much faster pace across industries especially in the tech space, domestic…
Millions of people need a home office for the first time. Some have perched at kitchen tables or made do with a laptop on the sofa for months. But even if vaccines ave arrived, many people may never go back to the office full time. And the early signs of how the pandemic has affected…
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…
Taihei Kobayashi has gone from sleeping on the streets of Tokyo to heading a technology startup whose market value topped $1 billion. His rags-to-riches story is among the most remarkable to emerge from a small-cap stock boom that’s minting fortunes in Japan. Kobayashi’s company, which helps startups and other firms to design and create new…
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…
