- Thursday, May 23, 2024
An influential parliamentary committee of British lawmakers on Monday (27) called for urgent action from the government over a surge in domestic abuse cases amid the coronavirus lockdown, with London alone registering 4,093 arrests in the six weeks up to April 19. The House of Commons’ Home Affairs Committee found…
INDIA is likely to continue lockdown in hotspots as COVID-19 cases are increasing fast. The novel coronavirus has claimed 872 lives and there are 20,835 active COVID-19 cases in the country, according to the health ministry data released on Monday (27) Morning. The total number of cases in India is…
A historic online summit was organised by Global Interfaith WASH Alliance and Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22, 2020. The event with the theme ‘planting seeds for a new normal’, has brought together faith leaders of all the world’s major religions, heads…
An Indian woman was allegedly gang raped in a school in the desert state of Rajasthan where she had been quarantined for a night by the police amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, a police official said on Sunday. The incident occurred last week when the victim, a daily wage earner,…
The UK recorded its lowest daily death toll from the novel coronavirus in a month at 413 on Sunday, with its total number of hospital deaths climbing to 20,732. UK environment secretary George Eustice announced the update during the daily Downing Street briefing in London and revealed that hospitalisations from…
After impressing everyone with her power-packed performance in Thappad (2020), Taapsee Pannu is looking forward to her forthcoming projects. The award-winning actress has almost half a dozen movies on his platter right now, one of them being Looop Lapeta, an official adaptation of German thriller Run Lola Run (1998). Talking about the remake, Pannu told…
Former Pakistani cricket captain Salim Malik pleaded with sporting authorities on Wednesday to drop his lifetime ban and allow him the chance to coach. Malik, 57, was found guilty of match fixing after a judicial inquiry in 2000 in a scandal that rocked the cricket-mad nation. Australians Shane Warne, Mark…
Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi urged India on Friday (24) to help rescue child labourers caught in the country’s coronavirus lockdown after a young girl died of exhaustion while walking back to her village. Satyarthi shared the 2014 Peace Prize with Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai for his lifelong campaign against illegal…
INDIAN-AMERICAN politician Nikki Haley has launched an online petition seeking to hold China’s communist government accountable for “lying” about the coronavirus pandemic. More than 40,000 people had signed the ‘Stop Communist China’ petition on Friday (24), hours after being initiated by the former South Carolina governor who set a goal…
LEGENDARY charity walk hero Captain Tom Moore became the oldest person to top Britain’s main music chart, and also added a world fundraising record to his accolades on Friday (24), just days shy of his 100th birthday. The World War Two veteran took the Guinness World Record title for the most money raised…
