New Delhi, 28/11: A police van carrying Aftab Poonawala, accused of killing his live-in partner, was attacked by some weapon-wielding people outside the Forensic Science Laboratory in Rohini where he was taken for a polygraph test on Monday, sources said. The vehicle was driven out of the spot while the attackers were detained…
New Delhi, 28/11: The Centre has told the Supreme Court that the right to freedom of religion does not include a fundamental right to convert other people to a particular religion. It also backed the laws to check illegal conversion, saying those were necessary to protect “cherished rights of vulnerable sections of the…
New Delhi, 28/11′ Days after his obscene and sexist comments on women sparked a furore and triggered a controversy, Yoga guru Baba Ramdev expressed regret and apologised for his remarks. Ramdev’s apology came after the Maharashtra State Commission for Women (MSCW) sent a notice to him. Several women activist groups, including Delhi…
New Delhi, 28/11: The remaining sessions of the polygraph test on Aaftab Amin Poonawala, accused of brutally killing his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar, got underway at the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Rohini on Monday, officials said. Poonawala reached FSL at 9.50 am and the sessions began at around 11 am, they said….
New Delhi, 28/11: Messaging platform WhatsApp on Monday denied reports that data and phone numbers of several WhatsApp users was leaked and being sold on the dark web. Last weekend, news platform CyberNews had allegedly found a trove of a digital dataset of around 500 million WhatsApp users ‘on sale’ with a different…
Beijing, 27/11: China posted another record high COVID-19 infections on Monday, after an extraordinary weekend of protests across the country over restrictive coronavirus curbs, in scenes unprecedented since President Xi Jinping assumed power a decade ago. In Shanghai, demonstrators and police clashed on Sunday, with police taking away a busload of protesters, with…
Rome, 27/11: Italy’s government declared a state of emergency on Sunday after a landslide on the southern island of Ischia killed at least one person and left a dozen missing. A wave of mud and debris hit the small town of Casamicciola Terme early Saturday morning, engulfing at least one house and sweeping…
New Delhi, 27/11: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has issued guidelines warning against the use of antibiotics for conditions such as low-grade fever and viral bronchitis while advising doctors to follow a timeline while prescribing them. The ICMR guidelines stated that antibiotics should be prescribed for a duration of five days…
Assam, 27/11: Assam on Sunday lifted travel restrictions to Meghalaya, six days after being imposed in the aftermath of violence in a disputed area along the inter-state border, police said. Vehicles from Assam are now allowed to enter Meghalaya, a senior police officer said. Wherever necessary, vehicles are being escorted. In other vulnerable…
New Delhi, 27/11: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday made a written assertion that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will form government in Gujarat after the upcoming Assembly polls. He also urged government employees in Gujarat to back the AAP while promising implementation of the old pension scheme for them by January 31 next…
