- Wednesday, May 15, 2024
AUTHORITIES in Britain's second city of Birmingham announced new coronavirus restrictions on Friday (11) as the nation's reproduction rate, or R number, exceeded 1.0 for the first time since March. From next Tuesday, more than 1.1 million people are banned from mixing with any other household, after the rate of…
INDIA'S airline regulator on Friday (11) asked IndiGo, the country's largest airline, to take action against passengers that broke flying rules while chasing a Bollywood actress onboard an aircraft. Actress Kangana Ranaut, who has been in the limelight lately due to a tussle with the ruling political party in the…
BLACKVILLE town of the American state of South Carolina is in shock after a “good-hearted” Gujarati convenience store owner was shot dead in a “robbery turned homicide” on Tuesday (8). Reports said community members were “trying to cope” with the death of Ashwinbhai ‘Andy’ Patel, 60, who they said was…
More than half the arrests this year under a tough national security law in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh have involved suspects in cases of cow slaughter, data showed. The northern state has used the National Security Act (NSA), which allows for those deemed a threat to national security…
MILLIONS of coronavirus cases may have gone undetected in India earlier this year, a research paper estimates, saying that for every confirmed case in May, there were 82 to 130 infections that were not recorded. The paper, published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research, estimated that the country had nearly 6.5 million…
A SPRAWLING mansion in the heart of London which was presented as a marital home to Maharaja Duleep Singh's son, Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh, has gone on sale as a modern refurbished family house with a price tag of £15.5 million. Duleep Singh, as Maharaja Ranjeet Singh's youngest…
PRITI PATEL has urged Boohoo to “ensure that workers are protected and remediated” as the fashion retailer promised action on reports of “labour exploitation” in its supply chains. The home secretary, according to the Times, asked the brand to “step up and take responsibility” for its suppliers, which had been…
INDIA'S main opposition Congress party on Monday (24) rejected a proposal from its leader, Sonia Gandhi, to step down, after a rare challenge to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, which has dominated the party for seven decades. The Italian-born widow of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had offered to resign as interim…
A LUXURY resort in southern India has turned its swimming pool into a fish farm to stop the business sinking amid the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Normally the 150-metre (500-feet) pool at the Aveda Resort in Kerala state is packed with European tourists. Now thousands of pearl spot fish…
BOLLYWOOD megastar Amitabh Bachchan is back at work filming India's version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? following a bout of Covid-19, while authorities eased coronavirus curbs on movie and TV shoots. A blanket ban on studio activity in March dealt a huge blow to India's cinema and TV industries, hitting…
