Vijay Mallya, the high-flying owner Kingfisher Airlines, on Thursday, lost his leave to appeal his extradition to India in the UK Supreme Court, triggering a 28-day clock on his removal from the UK. The extradition case regarding the alleged bank fraud of Rs 900 crore in IDBI Bank/ The liquor baron also faces probe in…
A new drone service developed by Southampton University for delivering urgent medical supplies is being trialed on the Isle of Wight. The drone has been designed and built by the University of Southampton to transport medical supplies to St Mary’s Hospital in Newport from the mainland via Solent airport in roughly ten minutes much faster…
Austrian princess Maria Galizine, who had married Indian origin chef Rishi Roop Singh in 2017, died of a sudden cardiac aneurysm at the age of 31 at Houston, US. She was born in Luxemburg City to Russian aristocrat Prince Piotr Galitzine and Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria – the daughter of the Archduke Rudolf of…
There are now 230,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and 33, 164 people have died and 428 dead in the UK yesterday. Care homes in the UK account for 40 per cent of all Covid-19 deaths. UK follows the EU and US to approve Roche’s Covid-19 antibody tests. Game-changing tests are given go-ahead as…
There had been 627 coronavirus related deaths in the UK in all settings bringing the total to 32, 692. There has been 8312 Coronavirus related deaths reported up to 1 May. The number of people who have died because of Covid-19 is nearly twice as high as the figure announced today. Looking back at death…
Today marks 200thyear of the birth of Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC, DSU was a British reformer and statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale, born on 12 May 1920 in Florence , Italy, ided on 13 August 1910, Mayfair , London, attained prominent by trailblazing modern nursing became popular while serving as a Manager…
Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the UK furlough scheme to pay wages of workers on leave because of coronavirus has been extended to October. He further said the government-backed workers and companies going into the lockdown, and would support them coming out and confirmed that employees will continue to receive 80 per cent of their monthly…
The UK’s Covid-19 death toll is now 32, 065 following a further 210 deaths. The public are advised to wear face coverings in PM’S 50-page plan for lifting lockdown. From Wednesday, you can travel to an outdoor open space irrespective of distance but not with someone from outside your household unless you can practise social…
Time for Love? A Saturn Herald Short Story by Penny Nair Price. Bob and Jessie were in love – they’d been in love for years and had a weekly tryst at a fairly top London hotel which lasted a matter of hours only as they were both married to other people with children and weren’t…
Boarding School Pranks and Hilarity, a Saturn Herald Short Story by Penny Nair Price. Ann and Amanda were best friends at their multicultural co-educational boarding school in the wilds of the Dorset countryside. They got on well with the boys who were aware that the girls at the school thought of Ann and Amanda as…