Day: December 1, 2020

Lanka’s highest court rejects petitions from Muslims against COVID-19 cremations

6:32 pm December 1, 2020

Colombo : Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed petitions filed by members of the Muslim community against the government’s regulation that makes cremations mandatory for COVID-related deaths. Some 12 petitioners had challenged the official gazette issued in April, claiming it impinged on the fundamental rights of the island nation’s 9 per cent Muslim minority. When the pandemic broke […]

I was lucky enough to get best mentors: AR Rahman

6:28 pm December 1, 2020

Mumbai: Music maestro A R Rahman says he was lucky enough to have some of the best mentors in his career and now he wants to extend the same help to budding talent from India as the ambassador of BAFTA’s ‘Breakthrough Initiative’. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ (BAFTA) on Monday announced Rahman as its ambassador in […]

Britain ends long Brexit journey with economic break from EU

With a month until split, Brexit trade deal hangs in balance

6:24 pm December 1, 2020

London: The British government told businesses on Tuesday to make sure they are ready for big changes when the UK makes its final Brexit break from the European Union in exactly a month. But with negotiations on a free-trade deal with the bloc stuck, firms say they still don’t know key details of what those changes will be. Michael Gove, the […]

Noida, Ghaziabad's air quality remains 'severe' for third day on trot

Air quality ‘severe’ in Ghaziabad, ‘very poor’ in Noida, Gurgaon, Faridabad

6:21 pm December 1, 2020

Noida: The air quality plunged to ‘severe’ level in Ghaziabad, while it remained ‘very poor’ across Noida, Greater Noida, Faridabad and Gurgaon, according to data provided by a government agency on Tuesday. The presence of pollutants PM2.5 and PM10 also remained high in the five immediate neighbours of Delhi, according to the air quality index (AQI) maintained by the Central […]

Azerbaijan fully reclaims lands around Nagorno-Karabakh

6:18 pm December 1, 2020

Baku: Azerbaijan on Tuesday completed reclaiming territory ceded by Armenia under a Russia-brokered peace deal that ended six weeks of fierce fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev hailed the restoration of control over the areas as a historic achievement. “We all lived with one dream and now we fulfilled it,” Aliyev said in an address to the nation. “We won […]