NEW DELHI: One of India's most well-known meals outside of the country is butter chicken, which is both tasty and controversial, with two Indian restaurant groups battling it out in court over who invented it. The Gujral family, owners of a famed Delhi restaurant brand, Moti
WASHINGTON: As the Israel-Hamas conflict persists, the Ukraine situation remains unresolved, and climate disasters wreak havoc, the symbolic Doomsday Clock is set to be updated tomorrow, reflecting the proximity to potential human-made global catastrophes, Daily Mail reported. Currently set at 90 seconds to midnight since last
KABUL: The Taliban are restricting Afghan women’s access to work, travel and healthcare if they are unmarried or don’t have a male guardian, according to a U.N report. In one incident, officials from the Vice and Virtue Ministry advised a woman to get married if she
GENEVA: The World Health Organisation chief fears plans for a global pandemic preparedness agreement will fall apart amid wrangling and disinformation, warning that future generations “may not forgive us”. Shaken by the Covid-19 pandemic, the WHO’s 194 member states decided more than two years ago to
MADRID: Spain’s Supreme Court has ruled that authorities broke the law when they sent unaccompanied child migrants back to Morocco following a mass border crossing into the tiny Spanish exclave of Ceuta. Dozens of unaccompanied migrants were among the more than 10,000 people who forced their
LONDON: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered a setback to his plans to deport some asylum seekers to Rwanda after parliament’s upper house backed a largely symbolic motion to delay ratification of a treaty aimed at overcoming a legal block. Under the Rwanda plan, which has
MIZORAM: Twelve people were injured on Tuesday when a Myanmar military plane overshot a runway while landing in India to collect soldiers who had fled armed insurgents fighting their country’s junta. The Chinese-made Shaanxi Y-8 turboprop skidded off the tarmac shortly before midday at Lengpui, the
LONDON: UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron has been asked to clarify claims he made regarding arms sales to Israel by the chair of the UK’s foreign affairs select committee. Cameron recommended arms sales to Israel be allowed to continue on Dec. 8 despite fears by Foreign
FRANKFURT: Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across towns and cities in Germany this weekend as the country enters a second week of nationwide protests against the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Demonstrations have gained momentum after reports emerged from investigative
JERUSALEM: Iran has that it had conducted a successful satellite launch into its highest orbit yet, the latest for a program the West fears improves Tehran’s ballistic missiles. The announcement comes as heightened tensions grip the wider Middle East over Israel’s continued war on Hamas in