London: When European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen visited Britain last week, some joked on social media: Can you please bring us some tomatoes? People in the UK have had to ration salad staples like tomatoes and cucumbers for the past two weeks amid a
Los Angeles: A man who spent more than 38 years behind bars for a 1983 murder he did not commit was declared innocent by a judge in Los Angeles. Maurice Hastings was released from prison last year after long-untested DNA evidence pointed to a different suspect.
New Delhi: India imposed by far the highest number of internet shutdowns in the world in 2022, internet advocacy watchdog Access Now said, as the country topped the list for the fifth successive year. The report reveals that India implemented at least 84 shutdowns in 2022.
New Delhi: India’s tax crackdown on the BBC, weeks after it aired a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has made news around the world. But foreign correspondents based in the country say this is not the first act of hostility by the Modi
New York: On the heels of G20 Foreign Ministers’ Summit in New Delhi, secessionist group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) has called on the G20 nations to “repudiate India’s claim to territorial integrity” and support Sikhs’ right to secede from the Union of India through the
New Delhi: A group of men allegedly vandalised a book stall at Delhi’s World Book Fair on Wednesday after objecting to the distribution of copies of the Bible, The Indian Express reported. The stall was being run by a Christian non-profit organisation named Gideon International. Videos on
London: The tragic case of a British woman's disappearance and death has shone a disturbing light on the rise of so-called online sleuths and amateur detectives who believe they can do the police's job. When mortgage advisor Nicola Bulley, 45, went missing in late January --
Tehran: Dozens of Iranian schoolgirls needed hospital treatment after another mysterious poisoning, a news agency reported, the latest in a spate of suspected attacks in the Islamic republic. Hundreds of cases of respiratory distress have been reported in the past three months among schoolgirls mainly in
New Delhi: The observance of Zero Discrimination Day worldwide on March 1 every year is worthless till Muslims in India and occupied Jammu and Kashmir remain particular target of the Hindutva forces with no concrete effort by the international community to prevent the menace. Zero Discrimination
Radhanagar: Aged 15 and already pregnant after marrying last year, Pinku Das Sarkar has no idea what to do following her husband’s Feb. 2 arrest in a controversial police crackdown on child marriage in northeastern India. He is among more than 3,000 men, priests and clerics