- Wednesday, April 16, 2025
THE four men convicted of the gang rape and murder of a Delhi woman in December 2012 were hanged in the wee hours of this morning. Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) were executed at 5.30am for the savage assault in a…
THE Mumbai Crime Branch has busted a racket involved in sending people from Gujarat to the UK on fake passports. Sleuths had initiated a probe after the detention of a couple headed to UAE at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport on February 26. “Their passports were fake,” said an…
WHEN Bollywood singer Kanika Kapoor was tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday (20), it sent panic waves among Indian parliamentarians. At the latest count, four Indian politicians are already under self-isolation. Reports state that the number may go up and even the president of India likely to be quarantined. The…
HUNDREDS of Indian doctors on Friday (20) started responding to the UK government’s call for recently retired medics to return to work, and assist the over-burdened NHS. The UK’s Department for Health had written to over 65,000 retired doctors and nurses in England and Wales, asking them to help the…
INDIAN football legend PK Banerjee passed away at the age of 83 in Kolkata on Friday (20), after battling prolonged illness. The Olympian had been suffering from respiratory problems due to pneumonia, and a history of Parkinson's Disease, dementia and cardiac ailment. He was on life support at a hospital since…
India has announced a ban on all inbound international commercial flights for one a week starting from Sunday (22) as part of its efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic. "No scheduled international commercial passenger flights shall be allowed to land in India from March 22 for one week," said a…
INDIAN MINISTER Ramdas Athawale has become a 'corona-viral' sensation, with his “Go, Corona” chant getting trance, dub and Carnatic remix versions. The Union minister of state for social justice, who was re-elected to Parliament on Wednesday (19), is a Dalit activist known for his wit and poetry. A video clipping…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (19) urged the country to observe "janata Curfew" on Sunday (22) by staying indoors to combat coronavirus. The curfew will be in place from 7 am to 9 pm on Sunday, March 22, Modi said in a special address to the nation on…
INDIAN doctors in the UK on Thursday (19) called for urgent measures to address the mounting coronavirus pressure on the NHS, including cancellation of all non-urgent surgeries. The British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) wrote to England’s Chief Medical Officer Prof. Chris Whitty, saying Indian doctors stood “shoulder…
AN elderly Sikh man was shoved out of an Iceland store in east London after an altercation with the employees, amid mounting chaos due panic buying cross the country. Videos posted on Wednesday (18) show the unidentified man being pushed out of the store in Ilford, after he was repeatedly…
