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Baggage handler denies killing his British Airways lover who was ‘deeply in love’ with him

December 05, 2020

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Hollywood ‘con queen’ Hargobind Tahilramani remanded in custody in the UK

HEADLINE STORY - US sues Facebook for ‘favouring H-1B visa holders’

US sues Facebook for ‘favouring H-1B visa holders’

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India summons Canada envoy after Trudeau backs protests

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Ambedkar Museum to start operations soon as Camden council shows green light

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Baggage handler denies killing his British Airways lover who was ‘deeply in love’ with him

December 5, 2020

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Hollywood ‘con queen’ Hargobind Tahilramani remanded in custody in the UK

December 5, 2020

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Ambedkar Museum to start operations soon as Camden council shows green light

December 4, 2020

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Alok Sharma ‘struggles to devote enough time’ to COP26, the UK’s biggest summit ever

December 3, 2020

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BBC unveils new plans to become ‘more inclusive’

December 3, 2020

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Preet Kaur Gill MP wins MP of the Year award for ‘consistent championing of young people’

December 3, 2020

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India

HEADLINE STORY - Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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India summons Canada envoy after Trudeau backs protests

December 4, 2020

HEADLINE STORY - Stephen Fry (L) appears on screen during a video call with Indian village teacher Ranjitsinh Disale, surrounded with family members, (R) who has won Global Teacher Prize 2020 December 3, 2020. Varkey Foundation/Handout via REUTERS

HEADLINE STORY

India’s Ranjitsinh Disale wins Global Teacher Prize; to share prize money with finalists

December 4, 2020

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Travel agents prepare ‘UK packages’ for Indians as many wish to travel to get Covid-19 vaccine

December 4, 2020

INDIA - FILE PHOTO: A girl who suffers from hearing and speech disorders reacts to the camera at a rehabilitation centre supported by Bhopal Medical Appeal, for children who were born with mental and physical disabilities, in Bhopal in this November 11, 2014 photo. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/File Photo

INDIA

Victims of Bhopal gas tragedy say pandemic has worsened their plight

December 4, 2020

HEADLINE STORY - A man poses holding packets MDH Spices featuring a picture of founder Dharampal Gulati at a store in Ahmedabad on December 4, 2020. (Photo by SAM PANTHAKY/AFP via Getty Images)

HEADLINE STORY

MDH founder and ‘spice king’ Dharampal Gulati, 97, dies

December 4, 2020

INDIA - Farmers take part in a demonstration to protest against the central governments recent agriculture reforms at the Delhi-Haryana state border in Singhu on December 4, 2020. (Photo by MONEY SHARMA/AFP via Getty Images)

INDIA

India says will look into the concerns of farmers as talks continue on Saturday

December 4, 2020

HEADLINE STORY - A patient gets her temperature checked by 'Mitra', a robot equipped with a thermal camera installed to register and conduct preliminary screening of patients before directing them to respective medical specialists to prevent the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus, at Fortis hospital in Bangalore on May 2, 2020. (Photo by MANJUNATH KIRAN/AFP via Getty Images)

HEADLINE STORY

Pandemic spurs robots boom in India

December 3, 2020

INDIA - FILE PHOTO: The United Nations building stands in Manhattan on September 22, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

INDIA

‘UN sides ‘abrahamic’ religions; fails to acknowledge violence against Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism’, alleges India

December 3, 2020

INDIA - Farmers gather next to their tractors as police stand guard at a road block to stop them from marching to New Delhi to protest against the central government's recent agricultural reforms at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border in Ghazipur on December 1, 2020. (Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

INDIA

India meets with farmers after week-long protest

December 1, 2020

HEADLINE STORY - Fishermen paddle their boat in the waters of Brahmaputra River after selling their catch at a market during sunset in Guwahati on November 7, 2020. (Photo by BIJU BORO/AFP via Getty Images)

HEADLINE STORY

India to build dam in Arunachal Pradesh to reduce adverse impact of Chinese hydropower projects on Brahmaputra river

December 1, 2020

INDIA - Narendra Modi (Photo: PRAKASH SINGH/AFP via Getty Images)

INDIA

Narendra Modi refuses to back down on farm reforms despite huge protests

November 30, 2020

INDIA - Astrazeneca (Photo: ANDREW YATES/AFP via Getty Images).

INDIA

India probes alleged AstraZeneca shot reaction; will not stop trial

November 30, 2020

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5 social media wars between Bollywood celebs that grabbed attention

December 5, 2020

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Entertainment

Kartik Aaryan gets into a profit sharing deal with the makers of Dhamaka?

December 5, 2020

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Baggage handler denies killing his British Airways lover who was ‘deeply in love’ with him

December 5, 2020

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HEADLINE STORY

Hollywood ‘con queen’ Hargobind Tahilramani remanded in custody in the UK

December 5, 2020

Entertainment - Saif Ali Khan (Photo by SUJIT JAISWAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Entertainment

Saif Ali Khan’s recent statement about Adipurush creates controversy

December 5, 2020

Pakistan

News - Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali (L) and former US President George W. Bush shake hands as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House 01 October 2003. AFP Photo/Paul J. RICHARDS

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Former Pakistan prime minister Jamali, who served after military coup, dies

December 4, 2020

News - Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall meet with Imran Khan (Photo by Anthony Devlin - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

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Imran Khan, Prince Charles discuss climate change, COVID-19

December 4, 2020

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Appeal opens against acquittal of Briton convicted in Daniel Pearl killing

December 1, 2020

HEADLINE STORY - FILE PHOTO: Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the alleged mastermind behind Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl's murder. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Pakistan court opens appeal against acquittal of British-born militant convicted in Daniel Pearl killing

December 1, 2020

News - Activists and supporters of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) gather around an ambulance carrying the coffin of Khadim Hussain Rizvi, founder of TLP, during his funeral procession in Lahore on November 21, 2020. - Massive crowds of maskless mourners gathered in Lahore on November 21 for the funeral of hardline Pakistani cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who for years terrorised the country's religious minorities, incited riots and advocated the destruction of European nations in the name of fighting blasphemy. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP) (Photo by ARIF ALI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Massive crowds attend funeral for Pakistani firebrand cleric

November 24, 2020

HEADLINE STORY - FILE PHOTO: Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of the banned Islamic charity Jamat-ud-Dawa, looks over the crowd as they end a "Kashmir Caravan" from Lahore with a protest in Islamabad, Pakistan July 20, 2016. REUTERS/Caren Firouz/File Photo

HEADLINE STORY

Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed found guilty on two more charges of terrorism financing

November 19, 2020

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Technical faults caused 2016 Pakistan plane crash that killed 47, including Junaid Jamshed

November 19, 2020

News - Supporters of hardline Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan carry placards and shout slogans during a protest against the reprinting cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad by French magazine Charlie Hebdo, in Rawalpindi on September 4, 2020. - Satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, the target of a massacre by Islamist gunmen in 2015, reprinted the controversial caricatures this week to mark the start of the trial of the alleged accomplices in the attack. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP) (Photo by AAMIR QURESHI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Pakistani Islamists end anti-France protest after government talks

November 19, 2020

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BANGLADESH

BANGLADESH - Sadat Rahman delivers a speech after being awarded with the International Children's Peace Prize 2020, on November 13, 2020 in the Hague. (Photo by REMKO DE WAAL/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

BANGLADESH

Bangladeshi teen wins children’s prize for developing app to combat cyberbullying

November 16, 2020

BANGLADESH - Bangladeshi hijras - transgenders - march in the street during a rally to mark the first ever nationwide program to observe 'Hijra Day' in Dhaka on November 10, 2014. On November 10, 2013, the Bangladesh government officially recognised hijras as a separate gender in order to secure their rights, enabling them to identify their gender as 'hijra' on all government documents, including passports. AFP PHOTO/Munir uz ZAMAN (Photo credit should read MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

BANGLADESH

Transgender people to gain inheritance rights in Bangladesh

November 16, 2020

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BANGLADESH

Bangladesh extends school shutdown over second Covid-19 wave

November 14, 2020

BANGLADESH - Hijras, or transgenders, get ready backstage before the Hijra talent show, part of the first ever event called Hijra Pride 2014, on November 10, 2014 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images)

BANGLADESH

Bangladesh opens first Islamic school for transgender Muslims

November 6, 2020

BANGLADESH - Hands of a woman who is reading a koran book in persian language, also called Farsi.

BANGLADESH

Man lynched for desecration of Quran in Bangladesh

October 29, 2020

BANGLADESH - Activists and supporters of the Islami Andolon Bangladesh, a Islamist political party, hold a protest march calling for the boycott of French products and denouncing French president Emmanuel Macron for his comments over Prophet Mohammed caricatures, in Dhaka on October 27, 2020. (Photo by Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP) (Photo by MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

BANGLADESH

Huge anti-France rally in Bangladesh as Macron backlash widens

October 27, 2020

BANGLADESH - Rohingya people from Myanmar wait for aid at the immigration detention centre in Lhokseumawe in Indonesia's North Aceh Regency on June 26, 2020. - Nearly 100 Rohingya asylum seekers stranded off the coast of Indonesia were pulled to shore on June 25 by locals angered at the refusal of authorities to give them shelter over coronavirus fears. (Photo by CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP) (Photo by CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AFP via Getty Images)

BANGLADESH

Aid conference raises $597 million for Rohingya refugees

October 23, 2020

BANGLADESH - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet attends an update on the situation of human rights in Venezuela at the United Nations Offices in Geneva on December 18, 2019. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

BANGLADESH

Rape is ‘monstrous’, but death penalty not the answer: UN rights chief

October 15, 2020

SRI LANKA

News - Residents prepare sand bags to protect their homes ahead of cyclone Burevi landfall in Sri Lanka's north-eastern coast, in Trincomalee on December 2, 2020. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

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Preparations in full-swing as Cyclone Burevi nears Sri Lanka

December 2, 2020

News - Family members of inmates react outside the prison, following unrest at Mahara Prison, on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka November 30, 2020. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

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Sri Lanka coronavirus prison riot leaves eight dead, over 50 wounded

December 1, 2020

HEADLINE STORY - A soldier takes part in a ceremony to mark Poppy Day, Remembrance Day to pay respects to fallen colleagues and war veterans from the two World Wars as well as from the internal Tamil separatist conflict, at the war memorial in Colombo on November 15, 2020. (Photo by Lakruwan WANNIARACHCHI / AFP)

HEADLINE STORY

UK police probe mercenaries from Sri Lanka’s civil war

November 30, 2020

News - A labourer carries sacks at a market in Colombo on October 29, 2020 after a three-day curfew was announced from October 30 to contain the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA / AFP) (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Sri Lanka capital to go into lockdown after virus surge

October 29, 2020

News - Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa waves at his supporters as he leaves a polling station after casting his vote during the country's parliamentary election in Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 5, 2020. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

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Sri Lanka parliament strengthens presidential powers

October 23, 2020

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Pompeo to ask China partner Sri Lanka to make ‘difficult’ choices

October 23, 2020

US

HEADLINE STORY - US sues Facebook for ‘favouring H-1B visa holders’

US sues Facebook for ‘favouring H-1B visa holders’

December 5, 2020

HEADLINE STORY - FILE PHOTO: Gitanjali Rao speaks onstage during The 2018 MAKERS Conference at NeueHouse Hollywood on February 6, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rachel Murray/Getty Images for MAKERS)

Indian-American Gitanjali Rao is Time’s first-ever ‘kid of the year’

December 4, 2020

HEADLINE STORY - FILE PHOTO: Vivek Murthy, US surgeon general, left, speaks while participating in a roundtable discussion on the impacts of climate change on public health at Howard University with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, April 7, 2015. (Photo by Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images)

Biden names Indian-American Dr Vivek Murthy as surgeon general

December 4, 2020

News - Virendra Sharma.

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Asian MP backs National Trust

December 3, 2020

News - WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - DECEMBER 01: Director of the Office of Management and Budget nominee Neera Tanden speaks during an event to name President-elect Joe Biden’s economic team at the Queen Theater on December 1, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden is nominating and appointing key positions to the Treasury Department, Office of Management and Budget, and the Council of Economic Advisers. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Neera Tanden shares struggle of her mother Maya in realising American dream

December 2, 2020

HEADLINE STORY - FILE PHOTO: Center for American Progress Action Fund president Neera Tanden speaks on the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 27, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo

Biden picks Neera Tanden as head of the Office of Management and Budget

December 1, 2020

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Targeting Bashir

December 3, 2020

Column - Chairman of Indian pharmaceutical firm Cipla, Yusuf Hamied (Photo: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images).

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Hamied: Helping those most in need

December 3, 2020

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Brands ‘benefit from cultural diversity in campaigns’

December 3, 2020

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‘Trust and transparency vital to vaccine uptake’

December 3, 2020

Comment - Prime minister Boris Johnson gets an update on the Covid-19 vaccine research during a visit to the Jenner Institute in Oxford

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‘Trust and transparency vital to vaccine uptake’

December 2, 2020

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‘Acting Early to Prevent radicalisation is a step in the right direction’

November 26, 2020

FEATURES

FEATURES - Young Indian woman looking at the view. The blue city of Jodhpur on the background. Jodhpur is known as the Blue City due to the vivid blue-painted houses around the Mehrangarh Fort.

FEATURES

Women who escaped slavery turn anti-trafficking crusaders in India

December 2, 2020

FEATURES - Santokh Singh, 70, a farmer who was hurt by a tear gas shell and received stitches, poses for a picture at the site of a protest against the newly passed farm bills, at Singhu border near Delhi, India December 2, 2020. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis

FEATURES

Middleman matters: Behind Indian protests against Modi farm reforms

December 2, 2020

FEATURES - NO STIGMA: Aruna Bansal is the founder of the Asian Single Parents Network

FEATURES

Single parents’ group offers a ‘safe space’ to seek support

November 25, 2020

FEATURES - In this photograph taken on November 1, 2016, exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen speaks during an interview with AFP at her residence in New Delhi. - It's 22 years since Nasreen last set foot in Bangladesh, having been forced to flee in fear of her life after tens of thousands of Islamists took to the streets to denounce her writing. Her novels and essays had brought her no shortage of enemies and she upset the government by railing against rights abuses and the treatment of women. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: 'INDIA-BANGLADESH-LITERATURE-NASREEN' INTERVIEW by Alexandre MARCHAND (Photo credit should read SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Taslima Nasreen: Relentless rebel revelling in polemics

November 16, 2020

FEATURES - A demonstrator holds a placard reading 'Dalit Lives Matter' during a protest against the alleged gang-rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh state, in New Delhi on October 4, 2020. - India's federal investigators will take over the probe into the alleged gang-rape and murder of a low-caste teenaged woman that has sparked nationwide outrage and days of protests. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP) (Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Caste discrimination taints corporate India

November 6, 2020

FEATURES - Salman Amin

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The Brandfather

November 3, 2020

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