LONDON: A star BBC presenter has been taken off the air following accusations of paying a teenager a substantial sum of money in exchange for explicit photographs. The mother of the alleged victim revealed that the funds, totalling over £35,000, were purportedly utilised to sustain a
RICHMOND, Kentucky: At a sprawling military installation in the middle of the rolling green hills of eastern Kentucky, a milestone is about to be reached in the history of warfare dating back to World War I. Workers at the Blue Grass Army Depot are close to
NEW DELHI: In a declaration issued at the end of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation leaders’ summit, India once again refused to support China’s Belt and Road Initiative, PTI reported. The Belt and Road Initiative is a multitrillion-dollar infrastructure scheme launched in 2013 by President Xi Jinping
WASHINGTON: A senior U.S. diplomat will travel to India in the coming days and engage with its civil society over free speech and marginalization of minorities, after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent U.S. visit when he denied that abuse of religious minorities existed in
MADHYA PRADESH: Two Dalit men were assaulted in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district on the suspicion that they had molested some girls, PTI reported. The incident occurred on June 30 in Warkhadi in the Narwar area of Shivpuri. According to the police, the men were beaten and
SRINAGAR: The Legal Forum for Kashmir (LFK) in its latest report has said that the civilian population in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir is facing horrendous situation under prolonged Indian military occupation. The LFK released its bi-annual report, titled “Human Rights Situation in Indian occupied
NEW DELHI: An Indian court rejected PepsiCo Inc's appeal against an order that revoked a patent for a potato variety grown exclusively for the New York-based company's popular Lay's potato chips. The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights (PPVFR) Authority in 2021 revoked intellectual protection
SRINAGAR: Indian troops have martyred 1821 Kashmiris, including 40 women, since the extrajudicial killing of popular youth leader, Burhan Muzaffar Wani, in 2016 till date in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. According to a report of those martyred Kashmiris, 242 have been killed in fake
WASHINGTON: The company that operated the sub which imploded during a dive to the Titanic wreck, killing all five people aboard, said that it had halted all activities indefinitely. The Titan sub was reported missing on June 18 and the US Coast Guard said on June
BRUSSELS: EU lawmakers have pushed for an independent probe into a migrant boat tragedy off Greece in which hundreds of people are believed to have died, calling an internal investigation by Athens inadequate. That stance, also backed by the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency, seeks to shine