Beijing, 29/11: Chinese police were out in force in Beijing and Shanghai on Tuesday to prevent more protests against COVID curbs which have disrupted the lives of millions, damaged the economy and briefly sparked rare calls for President Xi Jinping to step down. At least one person in the city of Hangzhou was…
New Delhi, 29/11: On the back of IFFI jury head Nadav Lapid’s comments on Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files, the Israeli Ambassador to India, Naor Gilon, on Tuesday penned an open letter to IFFI and Lapid, criticising the Israeli filmmaker for speaking on the Kashmir issue. In the letter directed at Lapid, Gilon…
Mumbai, 29/11: Billionaire Elon Musk said in a tweet on Monday that Apple Inc has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Apple and Twitter did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Earlier in November, Musk said Twitter had seen a “massive” drop in revenue and blamed activist groups for pressuring advertisers
Chilka, 28/11: The forest department arrested a poacher from Banpur Tamana reserve forest area under Balugaon forest range this afternoon . The accused was identified as Trinath Pradhan,50 of Dolagobinda Nua Sahi village under Banpur PS limits . Forest officials seized fresh cut Wild Boar meat and skin ( approx 10 kg.) along with…
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…
