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A baggage handler has denied killing his British Airways lover who was ‘totally obsessed with him’ in a UK court. Jayesh Gobar, 36, of Crawley, West Sussex, was accused of murdering Nelly Myers,58, at her home in Rotherfield, Crowborough, in December last year. He was jailed in 2018 for robbing Myers, but the couple rekindled […]
A suspected con artist who allegedly impersonated top female Hollywood executives to swindle wide-eyed aspiring stars out of hundreds of thousands of dollars was remanded in custody on Friday(4) when he appeared at a central London court. Dubbed the ‘Con Queen of Hollywood’, suspect Hargobind Tahilramani, 41, led investigators on a years-long, global manhunt so […]
THE US government has filed a lawsuit against Facebook for discriminating American workers and favouring H-1B visa holders. The Justice department has alleged that Facebook refused to recruit, consider or hire qualified and available US workers for over 2,600 positions and instead, reserved for temporary visa holders it sponsored for permanent work authorisation (or green […]
India on Friday (4) summoned Canada’s ambassador and warned of serious damage to diplomatic ties after prime minister Justin Trudeau commented on growing protests by farmers, authorities said. Tens of thousands of Indian farmers have been trying for more than a week to encircle the capital New Delhi in protest at new laws on farm […]
THE Ambedkar House in Camden can resume its operation as a memorial for visitors as it received the necessary permission from the local authority. Camden council has given the final go-ahead for the museum after UK communities secretary Robert Jenrick had intervened to grant retrospective planning permission for 10 King Henry’s Road in Camden. Dr […]
Twitter Inc has expanded its policy barring hateful speech to include “language that dehumanises people on the basis of race, ethnicity and national origin,” it said in a statement. The company banned speech that dehumanises others based on religion or caste last year and updated the rule in March to add age, disability and disease […]
A 15-year-old Indian-American has been named as Time magazine’s first-ever ‘kid of the year’. Gitanjali Rao, from Denver, Colorado, the US has been recognised for her technological inventions including a device that can identify lead in drinking water, and an app and Chrome extension that uses artificial intelligence to detect cyberbullying. She was chosen from a […]
US president-elect Joe Biden has named Indian-American Dr Vivek Murthy as the next surgeon general, reports said. UK-born Dr Murthy held that post during the Obama administration, but had to leave abruptly during the Trump administration. Dr Murthy,43, is one of the three co-chairs of the Biden’s Covid-19 advisory board. “Vivek Murthy, a former US […]
INDIAN village teacher Ranjitsinh Disale has won this year’s Global Teacher Prize worth $1 million, for his work helping girls at a village school in western India. Disale immediately announced he would share the prize money with the nine other finalists. He was honoured for having ‘transformed the life chances’ of girls at the Zilla […]
AS THE UK is all set to start the mass vaccination drive against Covid-19 next week, many Indians want to travel to the country to get the vaccine. Travel agents in India said that they have started receiving enquiries from people who want to go to the UK ‘as soon as possible’ to get the […]
