Day: June 22, 2020

23-year-old woman hangs self, man named in suicide note held

11:41 pm June 22, 2020

Mumbai: Aman has been arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of a 23-year-old woman found hanging in her house in Kandivali in Mumbai, police said on Monday. The girl’s body was found on Saturday morning and a suicide note recovered from the spot named Hritik Mishra as the one responsible for her taking this extreme […]

Simmons says he was racially abused in league cricket in England

11:34 pm June 22, 2020

London: West Indies head coach Phil Simmons has claimed that he was racially abused during the time he played league cricket in England. Simmons, currently the head coach of the touring West Indies team here, did not specify in which English league he was racially targeted. “I encountered quite a bit (of racism) up in the leagues. In county […]

Priti Patel unveils campaign to counter UK's Windrush immigration scandal

Terror threat from ‘lone actors’ growing, Priti Patel tells UK Parliament

11:25 pm June 22, 2020

London: The threat from “lone actors” is growing, British Home Secretary Priti Patel warned on Monday as she visited the scene of the terror attack in the southern English city of Reading where three people were killed in a knife attack. Addressing the MPs in the House of Commons, the senior Indian-origin minister praised the bravery of unarmed police officers who tackled […]

Body of octogenarian found in Laxmi Nagar residence; murder suspected

11:17 pm June 22, 2020

New Delhi: An 80-year-old man was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his flat in east Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar on Monday and police said they suspect he was killed as his residence was unlocked and valuables stolen. K P Aggarwal lived alone and ran an electronics service-cum-repair shop on the ground floor of the building. His son, […]

Prince Charles visits 99-year-old Prince Philip in hospital

Prince says UK owes Caribbean community ‘debt of gratitude’

11:08 pm June 22, 2020

London: Prince Charles and Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid tribute to Britain’s Caribbean community Monday on Windrush Day, the 72nd anniversary of the arrival of a ship bringing hundreds of West Indian migrants to the UK. Johnson said those immigrants and their descendants had made a “fantastic contribution to Britain,” and the heir to the throne said the country owed them a “debt […]