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UK PM Andy Burnham announces 20% business rates cut for pubs, clubs across England
Andy Burnham
Britain’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Thursday announced a fresh 20 per cent cut in business rates for pubs, clubs and live music venues in England from April, saying the move would give struggling businesses m Read More
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Scientists drill 33 feet into a vanishing glacier to recover a 2,000-year old record of…
Scientists working on Alpine glacier (AI-generated image)
Scientists drilled 33 feet into ice and recovered a 2,000-year climate record, a frozen capsule that can reveal how the atmosphere breathed long before modern measurements. Read More
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Burnham approves US use of UK bases for defensive strikes on Iran: Report
Andy Burnham approves US use of UK bases for strikes on Iran
Newly appointed UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has approved the use of British military bases by the US for what the UK calls defensive strikes against Iran, Bloomberg re Read More
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Oil prices hit $100 for the first time since May
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Michael Race and Ben King, Business reporters
23 July 2026, 14:55 BST
Updated 10 minutes ago
Oil prices hit $100 a barrel for the first time since May as the escalating conflict in the Middl Read More
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UK PM Andy Burnham announces 20% business rates cut for pubs, clubs across England
Andy Burnham
Britain’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Thursday announced a fresh 20 per cent cut in business rates for pubs, clubs and live music venues in England from April, saying the move would give struggling businesses m Read More
World
Scientists drill 33 feet into a vanishing glacier to recover a 2,000-year old record of…
Scientists working on Alpine glacier (AI-generated image)
Scientists drilled 33 feet into ice and recovered a 2,000-year climate record, a frozen capsule that can reveal how the atmosphere breathed long before modern measurements. Read More
World
Burnham approves US use of UK bases for defensive strikes on Iran: Report
Andy Burnham approves US use of UK bases for strikes on Iran
Newly appointed UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has approved the use of British military bases by the US for what the UK calls defensive strikes against Iran, Bloomberg re Read More
World
Oil prices hit $100 for the first time since May
Bloomberg via Getty Images
Michael Race and Ben King, Business reporters
23 July 2026, 14:55 BST
Updated 10 minutes ago
Oil prices hit $100 a barrel for the first time since May as the escalating conflict in the Middl Read More
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Watch: Gujarat rains trigger waist-deep flooding, vehicles go under
Gujarat rains wreck havoc
NEW DELHI: Around 1,200 people have been rescued and hundreds more relocated as heavy rains battered south Gujarat, with Umbergaon taluka in Valsad district receiving over 1,100 mm of rainfall in just 16 hou Read More
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‘Must be handled with empathy’: BJP veteran Murli Manohar Joshi breaks ranks, backs NEET protesters
File photo: Veteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi (picture credit: PTI)
NEW DELHI: Veteran BJP leader and former Union minister Murli Manohar Joshi on Thursday extended support to students protesting over the alleged NEET paper le Read More
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Tanul Thakur On The Corporate Cruelty Driving The H-1B Visa Economy
Tanul Thakur’s ‘Wild Wild East’ Uncovers the Human Cost of the American Dream
Excerpts:Q: How did this book come about? A: I was an H1B worker in the US from 2011 to 2013. Read More

