Abu Dhabi: United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has conferred the Order of the Union medal on Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa “in recognition of his significant contributions to the promotion of bilateral ties”, the military’s media
New Delhi: A Muslim activist Zaid Pathan, a strong critic of Madhya Pradesh’s ‘bulldozer justice’, was arrested in Khargone distric under the National Security Act (NSA). Indore collector Manish Singh told APNlive.com that he was arrested for spreading hate among the communities, disturbing communal harmony, inciting
Gujarat: Sitting in his family-run grocery store on Tuesday, flanked by a host of relatives, 47-year-old Radhshyam Shah kept referring to himself as the “accused”. When it was pointed out to him that he had, in fact, been convicted of gangrape – a verdict upheld
Ahmedabad: Eleven Hindu men jailed for life for the gang-rape of a pregnant Muslim woman during Hindu-Muslim riots in 2002 have been freed on remission, officials said, drawing condemnation from the victim's husband, lawyers and politicians. The men were convicted in early 2008 and released from
New Delhi: A majority of Indians want uniform charging cables for their mobiles, and believe that manufacturers create devices with different charging cables to increase sales, a survey has found. The study by advocacy platform LocalCircles was conducted after the European Commission recently mandated that all
New Delhi: The death of a nine-year-old Dalit boy after he was allegedly beaten up by his school teacher for touching a drinking water pot in Rajasthan’s Jalore has spurned a spate of resignations from the Congess party, with one MLA and 12 councillors stepping
New Jersy: In a modern nuclear war, five billion people will perish, but the impact of global starvation induced by sunlight-blocking pollution will likely far outweigh the losses inflicted by the explosions, Bloomberg reported, quoting a study. Rutgers University scientists drew out the impacts of six
Geneva: The World Health Organisation, which is looking to rename monkeypox, called Tuesday for help from the public in coming up with a less stigmatising designation for the fast-spreading disease. The UN health agency has for weeks voiced concern about the name of the disease that
Washington: Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sued the US Central Intelligence Agency and its former director Mike Pompeo, alleging it recorded their conversations and copied data from their phones and computers. The attorneys, along with two journalists joining the suit, are Americans and allege that
London: Britain, the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine in late 2020, has now also given the first green light to a variant-adapted shot that targets both the original and Omicron version of the virus. The UK medicines regulator (MHRA) gave the so-called bivalent vaccine