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Britain offers lockdown-hit firms extra 4.6 billion pounds of help

Britain offered a new 4.6 billion pound ($6.2 billion) support package for businesses struggling to cope with a third national lockdown

Brexit a new world that British businesses are still figuring out

It took just nine months to strike a trade deal with the EU. It will take more time to get to grips with the details

British lawmakers approve Brexit trade deal as both sides look to future

Parliament's lower house voted 521 to 73 in favour of the deal

Brexit 'big bang' to trigger tectonic trading rift in Europe

While the landmark trade deal agreed last week set rules for industries such as fishing and agriculture, it did not cover Britain's much larger finance sector

Britain, Turkey reach post-Brexit agreement, to come into effect from Jan 1

The U.K. left the EU on Jan. 31 of this year but remained subject to the bloc's business regulations and within its customs union during a transition period that ends on Dec. 31

Explainer: Brexit ends British citizens' right to live and work in EU

So far, the large majority of British and EU citizens have not felt the realities of Brexit

Brexit to benefit Indian firms only in the long run, say analysts

Auto, pharma, IT, chemicals among sectors with significant reliance on UK and European nations with Tata Motors, Motherson Sumi, Tata Steel, TCS, Wipro, Infosys and Tech M among key names

British hospitals scramble for space as Covid cases soar despite new curbs

British authorities are blaming a new variant of the coronavirus for soaring infection rates in London and southeast England

Brexit trade deal published as UK calls for end to 'ugly' divisions

The two sides finally clinched a trade deal on Christmas Eve that explicitly recognizes that trade and investment require conditions for "a level playing field for open and fair competition."

8 Britain returnees to Kerala test positive; samples sent to NIV, Pune

Eight people who recently returned from the UK to Kerala, have tested positive for coronavirus and their samples have been sent to the National Institute of Virology, Pune for genomic analysis

Coronavirus new variant: Genomics researcher answers key questions

Boris Johnson said that the new variant could increase transmission of Covid-19 by as much as 70% and increase the R or reproduction number by 0.4

Brexit deal done: What's in it and where next for the Britain and EU?

The negotiators ignored the background noise and succeeded in drafting a dense legal document on which the future of UK-EU relations now hangs

Nine more Britain returnees test coronavirus positive in Telangana

A total of nine more returnees from the United Kingdom, who arrived in Telangana after December 9 tested positive for Covid-19, taking the tally of coronavirus cases among the returnees to 16.

What happened with Brexit? The inside story of how the deal was done

For about 200 officials agonizing over the minutiae, it was time to finally emerge from the darkness

Japan confirms first cases of new coronavirus variant identified in UK

Health Minister Norihisa Tamura said the five were sent to quarantine straight from the airports

How does Britain's parliament approve EU and UK's Brexit trade deal?

Britain's parliament only has days to scrutinise and pass the laws needed to implement the deal before a December 31 deadline

How does Britain's parliament approve the Brexit trade agreement?

There could be a core of pro-Brexit lawmakers in Johnson's party who vote against the deal on the grounds that it doesn't deliver the kind of clean break they wanted.

Seven UK returnees test Covid-19 positive in Telangana, hospitalised

Seven people who returned here recently from the UK tested positive for COVID-19 and their swab samples have been sent for screening to ascertain if they carry the new variant

With time running out, European Union and UK near post-Brexit trade deal

EU and British negotiators inched their way to within touching distance of a trade deal early Thursday, raising hopes a chaotic economic break between the two sides on New Year's Day could be averted

AstraZeneca submitted data for MHRA approval, says UK Health Minister

UK health secretary said that AstraZeneca had submitted a full data package about its Covid-19 vaccine to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for approval