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12-year-old boy charred to death in J-K's Samba

Man of British origin arrested for sexually abusing minor tribal boy

5:17 pm August 21, 2020

Bhubaneswar: A 68-year-old man of British origin has been arrested on the charge of sexually abusing a minor tribal boy who studies in a shelter home run by him in Odisha’s Jharsuguda district, a senior police official said on Friday. The accused has been running the residential missionary institute at Jharsuguda with more than 500 […]

Thai protest leader on hunger strike given IV drip in prison

India refutes as ‘untrue’ claims of British Sikh man’s torture in Delhi jail

11:35 pm August 19, 2020

New Delhi: India on Wednesday refuted as “absolutely untrue” allegations that a British Sikh man arrested on charges relating to terrorism is being tortured in Tihar Jail in New Delhi after a group demonstrators staged a protest outside 10 Downing Street in London. The protesters waved placards and made speeches to protest British national Jagtar Singh Johal’s detention in India for 1,020 […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

On V-J Day, UK’s Johnson pays tribute to campaign’s veterans

8:09 pm August 15, 2020

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is paying tribute to veterans of the multinational World War II campaign against Japan, which formally ended 75 years ago some three months after Nazi Germany had been vanquished in Europe. In an open V-J Day anniversary letter released Saturday and addressed to “Veterans of the Far East Campaign,” Johnson hailed the courage of […]

Migrants cross English Channel to UK for 10th day in a row

8:39 pm August 13, 2020

London: Migrants crossing the English Channel arrived in the southern English port of Dover for the 10th day in a row Thursday, as British officials hardened their rhetoric against asylum-seekers. The migrants, including children, were brought aboard a Border Force patrol boat into Dover harbor, where immigration officials conducted routine assessments for symptoms of the coronavirus. More than 650 migrants have crossed the Channel, one […]

BBC radio host quits over use of racist term in news report

11:37 pm August 8, 2020

London: British radio host Sideman quit the BBC on Saturday over the corporation’s decision to include a racial slur in a news report about a racist attack. Sideman, who appeared on music station Radio 1Xtra, said in an Instagram post that broadcasting the word “feels like a slap in the face to our community.” The comedian and […]