FIRST & FOREMOST ASIAN WEEKLY IN EUROPE The message in a bottle SEE PAGE - 7
India sends jet with Choksy papers to Dominica; deportation uncertain SEE PAGE - 25
Post Office continues to use gagging clauses? SEE PAGE - 15
Baba Ramdev gets £100 mn defamation notice for remarks on allopathy SEE PAGE - 26
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New scams and frauds continue to make headlines
Practicing safe behaviour as lockdown eases
We’re on right track in 7 years of government, says PM Modi
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DOES BRITAIN HAVE A PLAN? Long press conferences or Long Covid - we need to pick our battles.
Shefali Saxena The British government’s faulty roadmap to combat the first wave of Coronavirus in the UK, whose efficacy was only realised when Britain was grappling with the second wave, not only led to the loss of innocent lives that could have been saved but also impacted people who are now suffering from Long Covid and living a half-awake life. If there was a concrete plan to mitigate the spread in the first place back in 2020, the UK wouldn’t have been reporting cases of the Delta (formerly known as the Indian variant), South African and other variants by the minute as many continue to be infected (especially the ethnic minority community in the north-west). Continued on page 6