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Black-veined White Butterfly

The black-veined white butterfly, thought to be extinct in Britain for nearly a century, has recently made an unexpected appearance in the countryside on the edge of London....

June 5, 2023

What is Operation London Bridge?

With the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Operation London Bridge became active in Britain. This is a protocol that has been in place since the announcement of the...

September 12, 2022

AUKUS: Collaboration on Hypersonic Weapons

Australia, Britain, and the United States will begin collaborating on increasing defence capacity and hypersonic missile strikes keeping in mind that their rivals China and Russia are advancing...

April 7, 2022

UK Organization to Conduct First-Ever British-Indian Census

The India League, a UK-based diaspora group which was established in 1916, announced the launch of a first-ever British Indian Census to collect data points around Britain’s estimated...

July 23, 2020

Britain bans Huawei from its 5G network

After a lot of pressure from the United States, Britain has finally taken the call that phased removal will be implemented for the Chinese telecom giant Huawei, from...

July 15, 2020

China plans to Establish National Security Bureau in Hong Kong

On 28th May 2020, Beijing passed legislation that empowered the Chinese Parliament to draft security laws for Hong Kong. Now China continues to tighten its grip on Honk...

June 22, 2020

Election Ink allowed to stamp Corona Patients

The Election Commission recently allowed the use of Election ink for stamping “home quarantined” on infected or symptomatic patients. The Corona Virus infected patients are to be stamped...

March 26, 2020

How the Hong Kong Protests Started?

Hong Kong is a special administrative region under the People’s Republic of China since 1997. In 1842, after the end of the First Opium War, Hong Kong became...

November 28, 2019

CO2 emissions rose by 2% in 2018: Study

As per a closely-watched review by United Kingdom (UK) based energy giant BP, titled “The BP Statistical Review of World Energy”, the global carbon emissions grew by 2.0%...

June 12, 2019

International Nurse’s Day observed on May 12

International Nurses Day was observed globally on 12 May 2019. It is celebrated every year on birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, the foundational philosopher of modern nursing. About...

May 13, 2019

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