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UK PM Johnson denies saying 'let the bodies pile high'

Daily Mail: Johnson said 'let the bodies pile high'.
Johnson says he did not say this.
PM faces barrage of allegations in newspapers.
Former adviser says Johnson was incompetent.

Published 26 Apr, 2021 05:53pm

World

UK PM under pressure over 'let bodies pile high' comment

Johnson has faced sharp criticism over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
In Britain, one of the countries worst hit in the world by the disease, more than 127,000 people have died from Covid.

Published 26 Apr, 2021 04:08pm

World

UK denies report that PM Johnson said 'let the bodies pile high'

The Daily Mail newspaper said Johnson said at an October meeting at Downing Street: "No more ****ing lockdowns - let the bodies pile high in their thousands."

Published 26 Apr, 2021 01:05pm

World

Johnson under growing pressure after ex-aide’s attacks

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced growing scrutiny Sunday following explosive accusations by his...

Updated 26 Apr, 2021 10:15am

World

UK's Johnson under growing pressure after ex-aide's attacks

Johnson's office has dismissed the damning accusations, insisting all "reportable donations" are transparently disclosed and that the prime minister "has never interfered in a government leak inquiry".

Published 25 Apr, 2021 04:15pm

Business & Finance

Pandemic pushes UK annual borrowing to £303.1bn

LONDON: Emergency pandemic support measures sent UK annual borrowing rocketing to the highest level since World War...

Published 24 Apr, 2021 03:21am

UK apologises for ‘pervasive racism’ over imperial war dead

LONDON: Britain on Thursday offered an "unreserved apology" after a new report said hundreds of thousands of African...

Updated 23 Apr, 2021 10:05am

US, other countries deepen climate goals

WASHINGTON: The United States and two other countries hiked their targets for slashing greenhouse gas emissions at a...

Published 23 Apr, 2021 05:12am

World

UK PM Johnson welcomes guilty verdict for US policeman Chauvin

I was appalled by the death of George Floyd and welcome this verdict," Johnson said on Twitter.

Published 21 Apr, 2021 10:41am

World

UK adds India to Covid travel 'red list' as PM cancels trip

LONDON: Britain on Monday imposed its strictest travel curbs on India after an explosion of coronavirus cases there,...

Updated 20 Apr, 2021 10:06am

World

India added to England’s Covid travel ‘red list’ on Friday

India will be added to England's travel "red list" from Friday, as cases of the UK variant continue to grow.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday cancelled a planned trip to India, scheduled to take place next week, due to the current coronavirus situation in India.

Updated 19 Apr, 2021 08:38pm

World

Johnson shortens India visit

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will shorten his delayed visit to India later this month, his first...

Published 15 Apr, 2021 03:22am

World

UK's Johnson says he shares concerns on Greensill lobbying

"I indeed share the widespread concern about some of the stuff that we're reading at the moment ... and I know that the Cabinet Secretary shares my concern as well," Johnson told parliament, saying top civil servants should have experience of the private sector but it was not clear that "those boundaries have been properly understood".

Published 14 Apr, 2021 04:20pm

World

UK's Johnson warns lockdown, not vaccines, behind drop in COVID deaths

Britain has offered shots to high-priority groups.
Johnson: lockdown largely behind lower cases.
PM cautions there will be more hospitalisations, deaths.
Moderna rollout begins in England.
Surge testing in London to track South Africa variant.

Published 13 Apr, 2021 06:15pm

World

UK's Johnson commissions independent review into lobbying

"The Cabinet Office is commissioning an independent review on behalf of the prime minister to establish the development and use of supply chain finance and associated activities in government and the role Greensill played in those," he told reporters.
This independent review will also look at how contracts were secured and business representatives engaged with government. It will be led by legal expert Nigel Boardman.

Published 12 Apr, 2021 06:09pm

Opinion

UK PM's loose talk on Brexit reverberates in N Ireland

In the febrile build-up to Britain's Brexit deal with the European Union, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there...

Published 11 Apr, 2021 05:27am

World

UK PM's loose talk on Brexit reverberates in N.Ireland

Northern Irish justice minister Naomi Long, of the centrist Alliance Party, noted that Johnson and Lewis "denied the existence of borders, even as those borders were being erected".

Published 10 Apr, 2021 04:48pm

World

British Prime Minister Johnson reacts to death of Prince Philip

"It was with great sadness that a short time ago I received word from Buckingham Palace that His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh has passed away at the age of 99.
"Prince Philip earned the affection of generations here in the United Kingdom, across the Commonwealth and around the world.

Published 09 Apr, 2021 05:31pm

World

UK businesses not sold on vaccine passport idea

LONDON: Britain’s retail and hospitality sectors have hit out the possibility of vaccine passports after Prime...

Updated 09 Apr, 2021 09:21am

World

British PM condemns latest Northern Ireland violence

"The way to resolve differences is through dialogue, not violence or criminality," Boris Johnson.

Published 08 Apr, 2021 05:50pm

World

UK PM Johnson says deeply concerned by N. Irish violence

"The way to resolve differences is through dialogue, not violence or criminality."

Published 08 Apr, 2021 11:47am

World

UK's Johnson sees no change to plan to ease restrictions after Astra

"I don't think that anything I have seen leads me to suppose that we will have to change the roadmap or deviate from the roadmap in any way," Johnson said.

Updated 08 Apr, 2021 12:22am

UK to have traffic light system for travel

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday it was too soon to say whether international summer...

Published 06 Apr, 2021 04:23am

World

British PM Johnson to unveil international travel plan amid COVID-19

British PM Johnson to set out plans at 1700 local time.
International travel will not start before May 17.
Airlines, hotels hope for a relaunch.

Published 05 Apr, 2021 07:34pm

World

UK's Johnson launches mass testing programme as economy reopens

Junior health minister Edward Argar said the tests would be sent to homes or businesses, or picked up from pharmacies or test centres.

Published 05 Apr, 2021 12:19pm

World

UK's Johnson to set out travel plans after vaccine programme takes off

Under the current plan international travel will not resume until May 17 at the earliest. The Financial Times said Johnson was not expected to set out a specific timeframe.

Published 05 Apr, 2021 10:12am

World

Black adviser to Boris Johnson quits amid race report outcry

LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s most senior black adviser has quit, Downing Street said Thursday, a day...

Updated 02 Apr, 2021 09:06am

World

PM Johnson says France's COVID situation is sad and could spread to UK

"I'm afraid you can see what's happening in France... It's very sad actually - it's very very sad," Johnson said. "When they get it in France and they get it bad, two or three weeks later it comes to us.

Published 01 Apr, 2021 07:31pm

World

UK needs to do more to tackle racism, PM Johnson says

"I don't want to say that the government is going to agree with absolutely everything in it, but it has some original and stimulating work in it but I think people need to read and to consider," Johnson said.
"There are very serious issues that our society faces to do with racism that we need to address, we've got, we've got to do more to fix it and we need to understand the severity of the problem," he said.

Published 01 Apr, 2021 05:52pm

World

Backlash after report finds UK not ‘institutionally racist’

LONDON: Prejudice persists in Britain but the country is not “institutionally racist”, according to a...

Updated 01 Apr, 2021 09:09am

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Reliance Ins. / Jul 5 Reliance Insurance Company Limited(RICL)	7.50 ▲ 0.96 (14.68%)
Popular Islamic / Jul 5 Popular Islamic Modaraba(PIM)	8.37 ▲ 1.00 (13.57%)
Ashfaq Textile / Jul 5 Ashfaq Textile Mills Limited(ASHT)	9.84 ▲ 0.94 (10.56%)
AKD Hospitality / Jul 5 AKD Hospitality Limited(AKDHL)	177.04 ▲ 12.35 (7.50%)
Allawasaya Tex / Jul 5 Allawasaya Tex. & Finishing Mills Ltd(AWTX)	1639.82 ▲ 114.40 (7.50%)
Sanofi-Aventis / Jul 5 Sanofi-Aventis Pakistan Limited(SAPL)	1327.20 ▲ 92.59 (7.50%)
Crescent Steel / Jul 5 Crescent Steel & Allied Products Limited(CSAP)	46.34 ▲ 3.23 (7.49%)
Feroze 1888 / Jul 5 Feroze1888 Mills Limited(FML)	74.64 ▲ 5.20 (7.49%)
Frontier Ceram / Jul 5 Frontier Ceramics Limited(FRCL)	27.90 ▲ 1.91 (7.35%)
Roshan Packages / Jul 5 Roshan Packages Limited(RPL)	16.29 ▲ 0.79 (5.10%)

Stock	Price
Shaheen Ins. / Jul 5 Shaheen Insurance Company Limited(SHNI)	3.10 ▲ -0.50 (-13.89%)
Indus Dyeing / Jul 5 Indus Dyeing & Manufacturing Co. Limited(IDYM)	212.66 ▲ -17.24 (-7.50%)
K.S.B.Pumps / Jul 5 KSB Pumps Company Limited(KSBP)	141.34 ▲ -11.46 (-7.50%)
Universal Network / Jul 5 Universal Network Systems Limited(GEMUNSL)	45.70 ▲ -3.70 (-7.49%)
Diamond Ind. / Jul 5 Diamond Industries Limited(DIIL)	22.81 ▲ -1.83 (-7.43%)
Hira Textile / Jul 5 Hira Textile Mills Limited(HIRAT)	2.27 ▲ -0.18 (-7.35%)
J.K.Spinning / Jul 5 J.K. Spinning Mills Limited(JKSM)	52.25 ▲ -3.68 (-6.58%)
Adamjee Life Assur. / Jul 5 Adamjee Life Assurance Company Limited(ALIFE)	21.01 ▲ -1.38 (-6.16%)
Huffaz Seamless / Jul 5 Huffaz Seamless Pipe Industries Limited(HSPI)	9.20 ▲ -0.55 (-5.64%)
ZIL Limited / Jul 5 ZIL Limited(ZIL)	110.00 ▲ -5.76 (-4.98%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Jul 5 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	2,435,000 ▼ 0.00
Maple Leaf / Jul 5 Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited(MLCF)	1,997,911 ▼ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Jul 5 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	1,580,418 ▼ 0.00
G3 Technologies / Jul 5 G3 Technologies Limited(GTECH)	1,500,000 ▼ 0.00
Azgard Nine / Jul 5 Azgard Nine Limited(ANL)	1,315,500 ▼ 0.00
TPL Properties / Jul 5 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	1,171,672 ▼ 0.00
Sui North Gas / Jul 5 Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited(SNGP)	1,121,266 ▼ 0.00
Engro Polymer / Jul 5 Engro Polymer & Chemicals Limited(EPCL)	798,585 ▼ 0.00
Lotte Chemical / Jul 5 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	781,061 ▼ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Jul 5 Telecard Limited(TELE)	776,500 ▼ 0.00

Markets →

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jul 4	205.00
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jul 4	204.80
USD to Japanese Yen / Jul 4	135.87
USD to Swiss Franc / Jul 4	0.96
Pound Sterling to USD / Jul 4	1.29
Euro to USD / Jul 4	1.04
UK LIBOR % / Jul 4	1.57

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jul 4	3825.33
India Sensex / Jul 4	53234.77
Tokyo Nikkei / Jul 4	26153.81
Nasdaq / Jul 4	11127.84
Hang Seng / Jul 4	21830.35
FTSE 100 / Jul 4	7232.65
Dow Jones / Jul 4	31097.26
Germany DAX 30 / Jul 4	12773.38
France CAC40 / Jul 4	5954.65

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jul 4	110.43
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jul 4	16880.00
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jul 4	118900.00
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jul 4	1809.29
Cotton US¢/pound / Jul 4	97.48

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