- Monday, May 06, 2024
THE Metropolitan police started investigating Conservative peer Michelle Mone for an allegedly racist message she is accused of sending to a man of Indian heritage, reported the Guardian. Richard Lynton-Jones, complained to the police last summer that during a disagreement following a fatal yacht collision in 2019, Lady Mone told…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi has said that the country needs to accelerate the pace of development in the new year and will not allow the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic to dampen the growth process. He stressed that the country will continue to fight the pandemic with “full…
PARENTS of Fawziyah Javed, a pregnant newlywed who fell to her death on honeymoon, are yet to recover from the shock, The Times reported. Her mother said that her “world has collapsed” after the tragedy. Javed, 31, fell from Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh, on September 2. The solicitor was expecting a baby…
INDIAN captain Virat Kohli has every reason to be confident his team can seal an historic Test series win in South Africa when they face the hosts in the second Test at the Wanderers Stadium on Monday (3). India have yet to be beaten in a Test match at South…
INDIAN police detained scores of people for blocking highways in a protest against food poisoning incident at a Foxconn India unit, which makes iPhones for Apple Inc, a police official said on Sunday (19). More than 150 employees at Foxconn's production unit in southern India were hospitalised after a bout…
MINISTERS have admitted that Nicola Sturgeon's government may have broken state aid rules in a deal to sell steelworks to Sanjeev Gupta, reported The Telegraph. There is growing scrutiny of the SNP's ties to the industrialist as he fights to keep his empire afloat, it was reported. The Scottish business…
A man was beaten to death in India for allegedly trying to commit an act of sacrilege at the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine of the Sikh faith. Local media reported that the unidentified man jumped over a railing into the temple's inner sanctum during Saturday (18) evening prayers in…
PROTESTERS threw stones and set fire to areas around a camp belonging to Indian forces in the remote northeast, a day after at least 14 people were mistakenly killed by defence forces, officials said. At least 14 tribal civilians and one security personnel were mistakenly killed when Indian forces opened…
INDIA's household goods salesmen have threatened to disrupt supplies to mom-and-pop stores if consumer companies provide products at lower prices to Reliance Industries. It was reported last month that Indian salesmen representing companies such as Reckitt Benckiser , Unilever and Colgate-Palmolive said their sales had dropped 20-25 per cent in…
THE British scientist who led the research underpinning AstraZeneca's coronavirus jab said Saturday (27) a new vaccine could be developed against the emerging Omicron variant "very rapidly" if needed. Professor Andrew Pollard, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, also said existing vaccines should work against the new strain, but…
