Altaf Hussain to stand terror trial starting June 1, 2020
LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Altaf Hussain will go on trial at the Old Bailey on 1st June, 2020, in the terrorism case brought against him by Crown Prosecution Service’s Counter Terrorism Division related to the incitement speech made in August 2016 from London to Karachi. The MQM supremo appeared at the Old Bailey […]
U.S. virus cases near an all-time high as governors backtrack
The coronavirus crisis deepened in Arizona on Thursday, and the governor of Texas began to backtrack after making one of the most aggressive pushes in the nation to reopen, as the daily number of confirmed cases across the U.S. closed in on the peak reached during the dark days of late April. While greatly expanded […]
Hindustan Unilever to drop Fair from Fair & Lovely
The Indian unit of Unilever, Hindustan Unilever Ltd, announced on Thursday, 25 June, that it has decided to drop the word ‘Fair’ from its ‘Fair & Lovely’ range of products. The Fair & Lovely range of HUL has long been criticised for racism through its advertising and general branding that was discriminatory against people with […]
India’s richest state bans guru’s ‘spurious’ coronavirus treatment
MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s richest state on Thursday banned a “spurious” coronavirus treatment manufactured by a company founded by popular yoga guru, which he says has a 100% record in curing patients. Baba Ramdev, co-founder of Patanjali and a household name in India, launched Coronil to much fanfare on Tuesday but hit a roadblock when New Delhi and some state […]
Lightning strikes kill more than 100 in India
DELHI: Lightning strikes killed more than 100 people in India’s eastern Bihar state and in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, their chief ministers’ offices said on Thursday. Eighty-three people were killed in Bihar, and at least 22 people died in Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state. Twelve people were also injured in lightning strikes […]
‘India’s George Floyds’: Father-Son Death in Police Custody Sparks Outrage
CHENNAI: Outrage at the death of a father-son duo in the custody of Indian police earlier this week mounted on Saturday, with thousands on social media comparing the incident to the death of George Floyd in the United States. J Jayaraj, 59, and Bennicks Immanuel, 31, were subjected to a brutal thrashing, which resulted in […]
White actors will no longer voice non-white characters on The Simpsons
Animated TV comedy The Simpsons is ending the use of white actors to voice characters of color, producers said on Friday. The decision includes a recurring character from the series, launched in 1989 – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, a grocer of Indian origin voiced in the American version of the show by white actor Hank Azaria. The character has […]
China forces birth control on Muslim Uighurs to suppress population
The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the country’s Han majority to have more children. While individual women have spoken out before about forced birth control, the practice is […]
Three dead and one person left permanently blind after DRINKING hand sanitizer in New Mexico
Three people have died and one was permanently blinded after drinking hand sanitizer Mexico due to methanol poisoning, whereas, an additional three people remained in critical condition in New Mexico. The officials of the New Mexico Department of Health said in a statement that three out of seven people who drank hand sanitizer containing methanol […]
Floods in India’s Assam force 1M people from their homes
GUWAHATI: Heavy flooding triggered by monsoon rains has forced more than a million people to flee their homes in the northeast Indian state of Assam, authorities said on Monday, warning that the crisis was becoming more critical by the hour. The Brahmaputra River, one of the largest rivers in the world which flows from Tibet […]
