• Friday, February 21, 2025

Former Indian apex court judge challenged as ‘self-publicist’ at Nirav…

Former Indian Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju was deposed by Nirav Modi’s defence team in order to substantiate its claims that the fugitive diamantaire would face an unfair and biased trial if extradited to India. (File photo: NARINDER NANU/AFP via Getty Images) FORMER Indian Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju was…

Historic Afghan peace talks begin in Doha, 19 years after…

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, is broadcasted on the screen, as he delivers a speech during the opening session of the peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban in the Qatari capital Doha on September 12, 2020. (Photo: KARIM JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images) PEACE talks opened between…

Trump announces ‘very, very important’ Bahrain-Israel peace deal

Adviser Jared Kushner (right) looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks at the Oval Office to announce that Bahrain will establish diplomatic relations with Israel, at the White House in Washington, DC on September 11, 2020. (Photo: Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images) US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Friday (11) announced a…

Sri Lanka navy plugs fuel leak on fire-stricken tanker

A Sri Lankan Navy boat sprays water on the New Diamond, a very large crude carrier (VLCC) chartered by Indian Oil Corp (IOC), that was carrying the equivalent of about 2 million barrels of oil, after a fire broke out off east coast of Sri Lanka September 8, 2020. Sri…

India reports nearly 100,000 Covid cases in a day

A Royal Bengal tiger rests as a health worker wearing Personal Protective Equipments (PPE) suit (R) sprays disinfectants at the Kamla Nehru Zoological Garden in Ahmedabad on September 11, 2020. (Photo by SAM PANTHAKY/AFP via Getty Images) INDIA reported a record daily jump in coronavirus cases for a second consecutive…

UK universities prepare to reopen with ‘Covid-secure measures’ in place

"If you are a student who is about to return to university or go to university for the first time, then please, for the sake of your education and your parents’ and grandparents’ health, follow the rules and don''t gather in groups of more than six people," said Matt Hancock.…

Millions of Covid-19 cases went undetected in India, research paper…

Railway employees sit inside a carriage of a metro train during a trial before the resumption of metro services after a nearly six-month hiatus due measures imposed against the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic, in Kolkata on September 9, 2020. (Photo by DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP via Getty Images) MILLIONS of coronavirus cases may…

Expert tells court Nirav Modi suffers from depression, has family…

FILE PHOTO: Nirav Modi driven away from Westminster Magistrates Court in London on May 30, 2019 in a prison van after a hearing in his extradition case. (TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images) EXPERTS told a UK court hearing arguments in the extradition case of Nirav Modi on Thursday (10) that…

British Airways announces Heathrow-Hyderabad flights from weekend

British Airways is also flying to Heathrow five times a week each from Delhi and Mumbai and four times a week each from Chennai and Bengaluru, making it a total of 22 flights a week from India to the UK, including flights from Hyderabad, the airline stated in the release.…

China, India agree to disengage troops on contested border

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting in Moscow, Russia September 10, 2020. China Daily via REUTERS CHINA AND INDIA said on Friday(11) they had agreed to de-escalate renewed tensions on their contested Himalayan border…