Rome : Italy is appealing a decision that awarded the European Medicines Agency to Amsterdam after it was forced to leave London ahead of the UK’s planned withdrawal from the European Union on March 29, Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi ...
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Feed SubscriptionNigel Farage hints at joining new pro-Brexit party
London : Nigel Farage, former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and the most prominent campaigner for Britain to leave the European Union (EU), has announced that if the country’s exit from the EU was delayed, he would ...
Read More »Nissan abandons plans of X-Trail model in UK
London : Japanese carmaker Nissan confirmed it had abandoned plans to build the new model X-Trail in Sunderland, UK, Sky News reported on Sunday. According to a letter written by Nissan Europe chairman Gianluca de Ficchy to workers, the X-Trail ...
Read More »UK ministers battle to win over rebel MPs on Brexit deal
London : UK ministers were set to battle on Wednesday in an attempt to win over rebel MPs on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal, a day after the government suffered three parliamentary defeats on key votes. The start of ...
Read More »China’s Mobike suspends operation in UK city over vandalism
London : China’s bike-sharing firm Mobike has said it is pulling out of Manchester this week after losing 10 per cent of its bicycles each month due to theft and vandalism. It has already started removing the bicycles and will ...
Read More »UK publishes Brexit white paper for free trade area with EU
London : The British government on Thursday published the long-awaited white paper on Brexit seeking to create a free trade area with the EU. Prime Minister Theresa May said it delivers on the Brexit vote. The 98-page document, titled “The ...
Read More »Two Muslims near the very top in British politics’
By Saeed Naqvi, The three column, six inch-deep headline on page 1 of the Daily Telegraph caught my eye: “Doors open to thousands more skilled migrants.” Given the anti-immigrant rhetoric I had heard in Rome and elsewhere in Europe, the ...
Read More »UK turns blind eye to dirty Russian money: British MPs
London : The UK has been accused of turning a “blind eye” to Russia’s “dirty money”, putting national security at risk. A British parliamentarian body said London is being used to hide Russian President Vladimir Putin’s illegal assets, media reports ...
Read More »Facebook CEO refuses to face-off with British parliamentarians
London : Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has no plans as of now to face members of a British parliamentary committee probing the misuse of the firm’s data its practice of collecting user information, the media reported. In a letter to ...
Read More »Focus on employability, not just academics in choosing foreign varsity
By Sanjiv Kataria, Time was when, if you aspired to study abroad, you wouldn’t look beyond the US and the United Kingdom with their prestigious colleges and great institutions of higher learning, many of them with an Ivy League tag. ...
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