Surat: A popular restaurant in Surat was forced to cancel its Pakistani food festival owing to resistance from right-wing activists. The issue seems to be settled after Sandeep Dawer, owner of Taste of India, which operates a chain of restaurants in Surat, apologised on phone
Panaji: The BJP has only one narrative that they alone are Hindus and the rest have fallen from the skies, but being a Hindu is primarily about sacrifice, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress founder Mamata Banerjee said. Speaking at a party rally in South
Srinagar: The Ministry of Home Affairs of India informed the parliament that a total of 33 custodial deaths have taken place in Jammu and Kashmir in the last five years. The queries were raised in the Rajya Sabha in the ongoing winter session of parliament which
New Delhi: A court in Delhi has fined the prosecution Rs 3,000 for the special public prosecutor’s failure to appear before it in connection with a riots case for ten months, Live Law reported. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Arun Kumar Garg, in an order issued on Friday,
Brussels: The Kashmir Council Europe (KCEU) has launched a broader campaign for early release of noted Kashmiri human right defender, Khurram Parvez, who is in Indian custody these days. The KCEU Chairman, Ali Raza Syed, addressing a roundtable conference held at the European Press Club in
Bengaluru: Members of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) have set fire to Christian religious books in Kolar in Karnataka, alleging conversions by the church in the latest communal attack against Christians in Karnataka. No arrest has been made in the case. The police said the Christian community
Geneva/Vienna: More than half a billion (500 million) people globally were pushed into extreme poverty last year as they paid for health costs out of their own pockets during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organisation and the World Bank said. The pandemic
London: Here are the latest updates about the new coronavirus variant. United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday set a target of giving booster doses of Covid-19 vaccine to everyone above the age of 18 by the end of December as a “tidal wave” of
London: Four people were due to go on trial in Britain on Monday in connection with the toppling of a statue of a 17th century slave trader during anti-racism protests. Demonstrators pulled down the bronze memorial to Edward Colston in Bristol, western England, on June 7
