While Meghan will be in California with son Archie, Prince Harry is expected to return to the UK for the first time to attend his grandfather's funeral

It was with great sadness that a short time ago I received word from Buckingham Palace that His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh has passed away at the age of 99, said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson

The Royal Family Twitter handle confirmed the death of the Duke. It said that Prince Philip passed away at Windsor Castle peacefully. He was 99 years old

Japan has twice declared a state of emergency that covered most of the country in the past year, most recently just after New Year as the pandemic's third and most deadly wave struck

The move will also affect supplies to the GAVI/WHO-backed global COVAX vaccine-sharing facility, through which 64 lower-income countries are supposed to get doses from SII, the programme's procurement and distributing partner UNICEF said

The appeal against a three-member tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague invalidating India's Rs 10,247 crore tax claim on Cairn Energy and ordering the government to return the value of shares it had sold, comes weeks before UK PM Boris Johnson's visit to India

Germany resumed administering AstraZeneca vaccine from Friday morning, while French Prime Minister Jean Castex said he would seek to promote a similar resumption in his country by getting the shot himself on Friday. Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Spain and Canada also gave their backing to vaccine

Concerns about reports of blood clots, along with low platelet levels, have led to some European countries including Germany to pause the rollout of the shot while the cases were investigated by the European Medicines Agency (EMA)

Johnson had planned an Indian trip in January as part of efforts to speed up trade talks between the two nations but was forced to cancel amid a surge of COVID-19 infections at home

In 2019, Britain spent $59 billion, or 2.1 per cent of national income, on defence, more than any other large European country but far below the 3.5 per cent of income spent by the US

A debate in a UK parliamentary committee room earlier this week over the issue was condemned by India as \"gross interference in the politics of another democratic country\"

Azaadi ka Amrit Mahotsav: PM Modi said that salt has never been valued by its cost in our country. Salt here means honesty. Salt means faith. Salt means loyalty

The High Commission of India in London criticised the debate, held on Monday evening inside the British parliamentary premises, as \"false assertions\" in a \"distinctly one-sided discussion

Nadhim Zahawi, in an interview with The Associated Press, confirmed reports that the Serum Institute of India, one of the world's largest vaccine makers, would be sending doses of the vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca to the UK

British lawmakers will debate the issue of press freedom and safety of protesters in India next Monday in response to an e-petition, which had crossed the 1,00,000-signature threshold required for such a debate

Call on bringing fuels under GST to be taken closer to GST Council meet: Sitharaman Amidst the rise in fuel prices, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said she might take a call closer to the GST Council meeting about proposing to the Council to bring petrol and diesel under the goods and services tax (GST). Sitharaman admitted that taxes on fuels should be brought down to reduce the burden on consumers, and called pricing a worrying issue. Dual airbags mandatory for new cars f...

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Some 500,000 doses made by SII, the world's largest vaccine producer, are set to arrive in Canada on Wednesday, a surprise boost for Canada's lagging vaccination drive

The Bombay Plan, authored by the doyens of industry in 1944 first envisioned state planning, state ownership and control of industries to make India \"self-sufficient\" long before Nehru's ideas took root

AstraZeneca's statement late in the day said the company was striving to increase productivity to deliver the promised 180 million doses