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Nirav Modi faces suicide risk, politically biased trial in India, UK court told

Nirav’s assets worth Rs 329 cr first in nation to be confiscated under fugitive eco offenders law

8:24 pm July 8, 2020

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday said it has confiscated assets worth Rs 329.66 crore of diamond merchant Nirav Modi under the fugitive economic offenders law. This is the first confiscation of assets order issued under the law that was brought by the Modi government in 2018 with an aim to deter economic offenders from evading the […]

In UK libel case, Depp denies hitting ex-wife Amber Heard

8:21 pm July 8, 2020

London: Johnny Depp denied hitting ex-wife Amber Heard in a jealous rage, dangling her tiny dog out a car window and being a Jekyll-and-Hyde monster, as he was cross-examined for a second day Wednesday by a lawyer for British tabloid The Sun. The newspaper is defending a libel claim after calling the Hollywood star a “wife beater.” […]

UK judge says Amber Heard can be in court for Depp testimony

11:29 pm July 4, 2020

London: Johnny Depp‘s lawyers have failed to stop the American actor’s ex-wife, Amber Heard, from attending his libel trial against the British tabloid newspaper The Sun until she is called to give evidence. In a court order published on Saturday, trial judge Andrew Nicol said that excluding Heard from the London courtroom before she testifies in the case “would inhibit the defendants […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

UK grants asylum to ex-staffer at its Hong Kong consulate

1:36 pm July 3, 2020

London: A former employee at the British consulate in Hong Kong has been granted political asylum in what he believes is the first successful UK asylum case from the former British colony. Simon Cheng, who alleges that he was detained and tortured in China last year, told The Associated Press that he hopes his successful […]

London police attacked for second night after street party

4:12 pm June 26, 2020

London: For the second night running, police officers in London have been attacked by revellers after trying to disperse crowds at an unlicensed music event. A night after clashes in the south London district of Brixton following another street party, which left 22 police officers injured, London’s Metropolitan Police said officers had to attend further unlicensed music events, block parties and raves. Kensington […]