Day: June 28, 2020

Leo Varadkar becomes Deputy PM in historic Irish coalition pact

9:50 pm June 28, 2020

Dublin: Ireland’s Indian-origin Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, has stepped down to make way for new Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin as part of a historic coalition deal which will see him return as the PM in over two years’ time. The office of Taoiseach, as the Irish PM is known, is to rotate between Ireland’s two […]

British PM forced to defend India travel ban timing over Delta variant in Parliament

Boris Johnson planning to put UK on obesity-busting diet: Report

8:46 pm June 28, 2020

London: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is drawing up plans to put the country on a diet as part of a wider strategy to counter obesity, seen as a major risk factor in those impacted by coronavirus. Johnson, 56, who is on a slimming regime himself, is expected to outline plans by next month to increase fitness […]

Bollywood celebrities demand justice for Jayaraj and Fennix: Guilty must be punished

8:24 pm June 28, 2020

Mumbai: Several stars from Hindi film industry, including actors Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Taapsee Pannu have condemned the deaths of father-son duo P Jayaraj and J Fennix following alleged police torture in Tamil Nadu. Jayaraj and Fennix of Sathankulam, a town in Tamil Nadu’s southern district of Tuticorin, were arrested for allegedly violating lockdown norms on business hours of […]

Investigators probe reported Russian tundra pollution

8:16 pm June 28, 2020

Moscow: Russia’s main criminal investigation body has launched a probe after a report that a nickel-processing plant was pumping water contaminated with heavy metals into the Arctic tundra. The reported pollution detailed Sunday by the Novaya Gazeta newspaper was in the same region where a massive spill of diesel fuel last month entered Lake Pyasino,, which feeds […]

ISKCON trademark has acquired immense reputation: HC

8:05 pm June 28, 2020

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has said the ISKCON, a registered trademark of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, has acquired immense reputation in India and abroad and there can be no doubt it is associated with the religious movement and no one else. The trademark undoubtedly deserves the highest degree of protection, Justice B P Colabawalla said on Friday […]