Four-year old killed for pair of gold ear-rings in Bengal
Kolkata: A four-year old girl was allegedly killed for a pair of gold earrings by two women neighbours in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, the police said on Wednesday. The two women, who are neighbours of the girl’s family in Khargram, have been arrested and remanded to police custody for two days, said officer-in-charge of Khargram […]
3 men charged with murder in Ali Raza Abidi case
KARACHI: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Wednesday indicted three men for killing Muttahida Quami Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader Ali Raza Abidi. According to details, the three men were produced in court and charged with the former MQM-P MNA’s murder. The suspects refused to plead guilty to the crime to which the court postponed the hearing of […]
Boris Johnson refuses to apologise for Islamophobic and homophobic comments
LONDON: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn condemned racism and anti-Semitism by stating that they were evil in all forms and pledged that under his government racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia will have no place. The Labour leader was speaking at the unveiling of a specific race and faith manifesto, featuring policies including a new body to oversee […]
Former Outcome Health Executives Indicted In Billion-Dollar Fraud Scheme
Health co-founders Rishi Shah and Shradha Agarwal have been indicted, along with former chief financial officer Brad Purdy, by a federal grand jury on fraud charges in connection with a scheme to overbill customers of the healthcare-advertising company that became one of Chicago’s most high-profile startups. Shah, 33, the company’s former CEO, is charged with […]
Padma Lakshmi sets the temperatures soaring with new Instagram photo
American TV host Padma Lakhsmi on Friday set the temperatures soaring with her new Instagram photo. The image instantly went viral after Laskhmi posted it on the photo and video sharing app, earning thousands of likes within hours. “When you’ve been on the road for six months straight and you finally get a minute to […]
Pregnant Muslim woman in Australia brutally beaten in Islamophobic attack
A Sydney man has been charged for punching and stomping on a heavily pregnant woman unprovoked, in what was described as an “Islamophobic” attack by a leading Australian Islamic association. Shocking security camera footage showed a man approaching a table of three women wearing headscarves as they chatted at a cafe in the city´s west […]
Madhur Bhandarkar visits Lata Mangeshkar in hospital: She is stable and responding to treatment
Madhur Bhandarkar visited veteran singer Lata Mangeshkar at Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital and took to social media on Tuesday to give people an update on her health. “Visited the hospital to see @lata_mangeshkar didi [sister] glad to inform that she is stable and responding positively to the treatment. Thanks everyone for countless blessings & prayers […]
Blind student beaten by police sings revolutionary Habib Jalib poem on live TV
A blind student from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, who was beaten up by Indian police recently, appeared on television to sing a revolutionary poem by Pakistani poet Habib Jalib earlier this week. According to a video posted on the social networking website Twitter by multiple users, and viewed thousands of times, Shashibhushan appeared on Indian channel NDTV to sing […]
Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa Set to Name His Brother Prime Minister
COLOMBO: Newly-elected Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday named his brother Mahinda as Prime Minister, cementing the grip on power of a clan credited with crushing the Tamil Tigers a decade ago. Mahinda, a two-term president himself, is due to be sworn in as premier on Thursday following the resignation of Ranil Wickremesinghe after […]
Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation after nearly 10 years
STOCKHOLM: A Swedish prosecutor dropped a rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, ending the near decade-old case that had sent the anti-secrecy campaigner into hiding in London’s Ecuadorian embassy to avoid extradition. Although the prosecutor’s decision can be appealed, it probably closes the case, which was launched in 2010. The accuser’s lawyer said she […]
