• Friday, April 04, 2025

More than one in ten child abuse survivors opening up…

AN independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in England and Wales has found more than one in ten victims sharing their experiences were opening up on the issue for the first time. Part of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, the Truth Project has offered about 5,000 victims and…

CAIT launches ”China Quit India” campaign to boycott Chinese goods

On the anniversary of Quit India Movement, the Confederation of all India Traders (CAIT) on Sunday launched a campaign ''China Quit India'' to boycott Chinese goods, while its members held protests across 600 places across the country. The trader's body said there is an urgent need to check "China's growing…

Priti Patel fumes at ‘unacceptably high, shameful’ illegal Channel crossings

PRITI PATEL has described the volume of migrants crossing the English Channel as “appalling and unacceptably high”, and called on France to help keep numbers down. The home secretary made her comments on social media the day after British border officials detained 235 migrants as they tried to cross the…

PM to launch financing facility under Agriculture Infrastructure Fund

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday greeted people on 'Balram jayanti', 'Hal Chhath' and 'Dau janmotsav', and said to mark the occasion, he would launch a financing facility of Rs one lakh crore under the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund. In a series of tweets in Hindi, he extended greetings, especially to…

7 patients killed in fire at COVID care facility in…

As many seven patients were killed in a fire accident at a hotel which was converted as COVID-19 care facility here, Krishna district Collector MD Imtiaz said on Sunday "We have recovered seven bodies. The hotel was taken by a private hospital to treat COVID-19 patients. The fire broke out…

Nirav Modi’s UK trial to begin in September

A UK court on Thursday (6) extended the custody of fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi, who is fighting extradition to India on charges over the nearly $2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud and money laundering case, until August 27. The Westminster Magistrates’ court in London held that the next…

Record 64,399 new COVID cases; 861 deaths

With a highest single-day spike of 64,399 cases, India's COVID-19 tally zoomed past 21 lakh on Sunday, while the death toll climbed to 43,379 with 861 more fatalities, the Health Ministry said. The number of recoveries surged to 14,80,884 with record 53,879 more people recuperating in the past 24 hours,…

Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi and Ananya Panday’s film to roll…

Dharma Productions’ next film with Deepika Padukone, Ananya Panday, and Siddhant Chaturvedi, which was officially announced weeks before the Coronavirus pandemic hit the world, was set to begin production in the second quarter of the year. However, the team had to put their plans on hold due to the pandemic…

AI Express flight overshot runway in rainy conditions, split into…

An Air India Express flight from Dubai with 190 people onboard overshot the runway at Kozhikode airport on Friday in rainy conditions and went down 35 feet into a slope before breaking up into two pieces, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said. He said 16 people lost their lives…

British Airways set to resume weekly flights from four Indian…

BRITISH AIRWAYS will operate multiple weekly relief flights between four Indian cities and London from August 17 as per a bilateral arrangement signed with the Indian government. The airline will operate five flights a week from Delhi and Mumbai to London Heathrow, and four weekly flights from Hyderabad and Bengaluru,.…