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Sunanda K Datta Ray | Amid pandemic, Britain, EU eye India trade deals

India desperately needs the emergency medical aid that is pouring in from several richer countries

12 May 2021 12:28 AM

Ms Symonds is accused, apart from crony appointments of interventions in policy areas that affect the country, decisions that very many Conservatives and people in government are convinced that BoJo would not have taken had it not been for her prevalent influence. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Is Carrie, UK’s First Girlfriend, the real driver of BoJo’s govt?

It is a fact that she has packed the staff and advisory phalanx of the PM’s office with her friends and people she agrees with politically

08 May 2021 12:00 AM

This is the second time in three months that the British PM has cancelled his visit to India. (Photo: AFP)

Boris Johnson cancels his visit to India

India on UK's red list, 103 cases of Indian variant had been identified in the UK

20 Apr 2021 1:23 AM

No wonder Britain’s response was limited to grieving rhetoric when Beijing imposed sanctions on five ruling Conservative Party MPs, two peers, a barrister and an academic. (AFP file photo)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Weak Britain reluctant to confront aggressive China

Ramping up criticism of Beijing not only risks deterring future Chinese investment but could undermine British businesses in China

31 Mar 2021 7:25 AM

Now the news that our vaccine supply may be interrupted because the new wave in India will impact vaccine exports to the UK has spread gloom. (Photo: AFP)

Kishwar Desai | India wave hits UK's vax drive, amid adulation for Poonawala

India was headlined on the front page — fortunately, in a way, it was a compliment, not a criticism

29 Mar 2021 4:01 AM

There are other ways in which BoJo’s government behaves in an unsurprising manner. (Photo: AFP)

BoJo facing flak over ‘legal’ graft, dodging of tax & the ‘nanny state’

Boris Johnson govt has, because of the Covid-19 crisis, done some peculiar things for a Conservative Party to have contemplated or proposed

27 Mar 2021 4:46 AM

Priti Patel, United Kingdom home secretary (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | How to apply for a job to home secy of Blunderland!

I guarantee Pritiji, these thoughts of yours which I have humbly attempted to put into words will get you to be PM

13 Feb 2021 12:00 AM

There is no harm in saying pass this year. Since this is an unusual period for all of the world, the pandemic provides us a perfectly good reason to not go scouting for a dignitary after the British leader has been obliged to drop out. (Representational Image:PTI)

AA Edit | Scale down the parade

It may be recalled that in the years 1952, 1953, and 1966 no invitation was extended to an international dignitary to be chief guest

07 Jan 2021 4:52 AM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson waves at the media as he arrives back in Downing Street after attending the weekly Prime Ministers' Questions session at the Houses of Parliament in London on Wednesday, December 9, 2020. (AP/Matt Dunham)

Following India protests closely, says UK after Boris Johnson gaffe

The gaffe occurred during the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session in the House of Commons on Wednesday

11 Dec 2020 11:54 AM

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Boris’ fumbling holds lessons for the world

While British waters are much richer in fish than the seas surrounding Europe, British trawlers make their money selling to European nations

10 Dec 2020 12:05 AM

Britain will ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars by 2030, a decade earlier than its previous commitment, the prime minister said Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. Boris Johnson made the pledge as part of plans for a "green industrial revolution" that he claims could create up to 250,000 jobs in energy, transport and technology. (AP)

UK to ban gasoline, diesel car sales by 2030 as part of green plan

The environmental push is part of Johnson's efforts to move beyond the tremors of the coronavirus pandemic and Britain's exit from the EU

18 Nov 2020 11:00 AM

People exercise in Green Park in central London on November 8, 2020 during a second national lockdown designed to contain soaring infections of the novel coronavirus. (AFP)

Kishwar Desai | London Diary

Locked down yet again, UK knows the rules but likes them less and less

09 Nov 2020 11:04 AM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking in the House of Commons in London on November 2, 2020 on new coronavirus lockdown measures. (Photo : AFP)

More lockdowns in Europe as virus outbreaks grow

Chancellor Sebastian Kurz had announced the measures on Saturday, describing them as

03 Nov 2020 2:15 PM

Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge wears a face mask as he visits St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London. - Prince William tested positive for coronavirus in April according to media reports on November 2, 2020. (AFP)

Prince William's COVID-19 positive kept secret in first wave of UK pandemic

Around the same time in April, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital after testing positive for the virus

02 Nov 2020 6:43 PM

A pedestrian walks past a poster of a person wearing a face covering, in the high street in west London. — AFP photo

Ill, Boris had a harder time; virus blow to James Bond

The only constant is that like the scientists, the government is also at a loss

12 Oct 2020 3:58 PM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds an electric vehicle charging cable during a visit to the headquarters of Octopus Energy in London, Monday Oct. 5, 2020. They visited the startup company to promote the company's plan to create 1,000 new technology jobs across sites in London, Brighton, Warwick and Leicester, and a new tech hub in Manchester. (AP)

Build back greener: UK's Johnson pitches wind-driven recovery from pandemic

Johnson is under pressure over his handling of the pandemic as his government’s response has been cast by opponents as poorly organised

06 Oct 2020 9:49 AM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street to attend the weekly session of Prime Ministers Questions in Parliament in London. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has strongly defended his controversial plan to override sections of the Brexit deal that he negotiated with the European Union, arguing that the bloc has an 'extreme' interpretation of the treaty that could jeopardize the future of the U.K. (AP)

UK's Johnson faces rebellion over plan to break Brexit treaty

The EU has ramped up preparations for a no-deal Brexit, which would be chaotic for business, markets and nearly $1 trillion in annual trade

14 Sep 2020 3:49 PM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Britain left the now 27-nation EU on January 31, 2020, three-and-a-half years after the country narrowly voted to end more than four decades of membership.(via AFP)

UK will quit Brexit talks if no deal by October 15: Boris Johnson

The European Union, in turn, accuses Britain of failing to negotiate seriously

07 Sep 2020 9:59 AM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (C) takes part in an induction session in the gymnasium with year sevens as he visits Castle Rock school, Coalville, central England. (AFP)

Europe is going back to school despite recent virus surge

While the US’ back-to-school saga has been politicized and chaotic, European governments have faced less of an uproar

27 Aug 2020 2:52 PM

Students hold placards as they protest outside the Department for Education in central London to protest against the downgrading of A-level results. AFP Photo

Farrukh Dhondy | UK’s 'Fair Grades Matter' movement, where BoJo performs abysmally

What I would call the Fair Exam Grades Matter movement now took to the streets

24 Aug 2020 4:58 PM

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Sunanda K Datta Ray | Amid pandemic, Britain, EU eye India trade deals

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Boris Johnson cancels his visit to India

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Weak Britain reluctant to confront aggressive China

Kishwar Desai | India wave hits UK's vax drive, amid adulation for Poonawala

BoJo facing flak over ‘legal’ graft, dodging of tax & the ‘nanny state’

Farrukh Dhondy | How to apply for a job to home secy of Blunderland!

AA Edit | Scale down the parade

Following India protests closely, says UK after Boris Johnson gaffe

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Boris’ fumbling holds lessons for the world

UK to ban gasoline, diesel car sales by 2030 as part of green plan

Kishwar Desai | London Diary

More lockdowns in Europe as virus outbreaks grow

Prince William's COVID-19 positive kept secret in first wave of UK pandemic

Ill, Boris had a harder time; virus blow to James Bond

Build back greener: UK's Johnson pitches wind-driven recovery from pandemic

UK's Johnson faces rebellion over plan to break Brexit treaty

UK will quit Brexit talks if no deal by October 15: Boris Johnson

Europe is going back to school despite recent virus surge

Farrukh Dhondy | UK’s 'Fair Grades Matter' movement, where BoJo performs abysmally

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