Councillors and politicians tell Home Office to ‘get a grip’ on voluntary housing system Afghan refugees Rahman Sahah (left) , 32 and Mirwais Ahmadzai, 27, sit outside the Home Office in Glasgow, Scotland, last month to protest against their treatment in the UK. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Britain’s asylum dispersal system is on the brink of collapse, according to a ...

Scientists in Australia have built a watch which is more accurate than any commercial system out there on the planet and is claimed to not lose time for 40 million years.   Called, Cryogenic Sapphire Oscillator, the system uses 1,200-carat sapphire crystal that is cooled down to minus 267 degrees Celsius, Cnet reported. It is 1,000 times more precise than ...

London, Sep 5 : Britain deepened its diplomatic feud with Moscow on Wednesday, charging two men it says are Russian military intelligence officers with the nerve-agent poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a double agent who betrayed the service by spying for the West. But U.K. authorities acknowledged there was little chance Russia would hand over the suspects, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan ...

Google has unveiled a new search experience making it easier for job seekers in three countries of South Asia, including Bangladesh, to find employment opportunities from popular job listing websites, online classifieds and companies.   The new feature is built directly into Google Search to provide a comprehensive listing of jobs across the web.  At launch, job search will have ...

  The couple paid Rs 3 lakh to charter special train, introduced by Southern Railway, for one-way trip, becoming first people to do so.   A newly married British couple chartered an entire train to travel from Mettupalayam to Udhagamandalam to spend their honeymoon in the Nilgiri hills. The couple paid Rs 3 lakh to charter the special train, introduced ...

US tech giant Google announced on Monday that it is employing a new artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to combat online spreading of contents involving child sexual abuse.   Google said its cutting-edge AI technology uses deep neural networks for image processing to help discover and detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online.  The new tool based on the deep neural ...

2018 was the joint hottest summer on record for the UK as a whole, and the hottest ever for England, the Met Office has announced. It said highs for summer 2018 were tied with those of 1976, 2003 and 2006 for being the highest since records began in 1910.   England’s average temperatures narrowly beat those seen in 1976, they ...

Successful applicants being unnecessarily put through traumatic process, say lawyers Nearly three-quarters of final immigration court appeals brought by the Home Office against rulings allowing asylum seekers and other migrants to stay in the UK are dismissed, according to figures seen by the Guardian. The low success rate raises concerns the Home Office is putting people through lengthy and expensive ...

Downing Street intervention marks escalation of feud between PM and former foreign secretary Boris Johnson faced a concerted backlash over his attack on Theresa May’s Brexit plans on Monday, with a string of senior Conservatives lining up to denounce him, as the prime minister sought to save her Chequers deal from fierce internal criticism. Downing Street delivered a rare public ...

Paris, Sep 3 : French children who are going back to school Monday after summer vacation will have to do so without their mobile phones. The government passed a law banning phone use in all primary and middle schools for the entire day, including during breaks —with exceptions in cases of emergency and for disabled children. Pupils are requested to ...