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The incident took place on Friday afternoon, Xinhua news agency reported.

Hyderabad: Anne Jakapong Jakrajutatip, a transgender Thai media mogul and transgender rights campaigner has bought the Miss Universe pageant making her the first woman to own the pageant outright. She runs the KN Global Group which acquired the organisation for $20 million, according to a company announcement. After a series of posts that referred to […]

The bird was tagged as a hatchling in Alaska during the Northern Hemisphere summer with a tracking GPS chip and tiny solar panel that enabled an international research team to follow its first annual migration across the Pacific Ocean, Birdlife Tasmania convenor Eric Woehler said.

State and local police are still investigating a two motor vehicle collision that killed three and hospitalized five people Tuesday morning.

The book on the "Nuclearization of Asia" was released this week at the Geneva Press Club, which saw the in-person participation of 35 persons. Twenty-three people participated via virtual mode.

Three students from India died in a road accident after the car they were travelling in collided with another vehicle in western Massachusetts.

London: The extraordinary wealth of the wider family of Britain’s super-rich Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his billionaire heiress wife Akshata Murthy has been laid bare, the media reported. With an estimated net fortune of 730 million pounds that includes multiple properties in Britain and the US, a string of business interests and even a […]

The verdict was handed down on Wednesday by the jury, a panel made up of citizens, which had earlier found Robert Solis guilty of murdering Sandeep Dhaliwal in 2019.

Whittome was "instructed" to remove her tweet, a spokesman for Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer confirmed, after it drew backlash on social media, the BBC reported.

Sharing his picture of celebrating the festival of lights at his residence, he extended his wishes to everyone and said he will do all that it takes to build a Britain where the future generation can light their 'Diyas' and look into the future with hope.

While that wrinkle was resolved after Akshata agreed to pay the taxes from her worldwide income, the unassuming figure is fast becoming a much-searched keyword on search engines. 

The Chief Judge of the Employment Court, Christina Inglis, found that all four drivers were employees of Uber during the periods where they performed transportation services.

“This was a big Diwali present for the diaspora. Rishi was already on the Indiaspora government leaders list and we welcome him and wish him well as he takes office!” Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur and Indiaspora founder M R Rangaswami said.

Hyderabad: An Iranian man nicknamed the “dirtiest man in the world”, for not taking a shower for decades, has died at the age of 94, according to State media reports. Amou Haji, who did not wash for more than half-a-century and was single, died on Sunday in the village of Dejgah in the southern province […]

Hyderabad: The 42-year-old Rishi Sunak will soon become the United Kingdom’s first Indian-origin Prime Minister. He will also become the first man of colour to hold the post and the youngest in over 200 years. As this historic news hit the internet, Twitterati had a field day with ‘Bring back Kohinoor’, ‘Ashish Nehra’, and other […]

The 42-year-old PM-designate will become Britain’s first person of colour and Asian descent and of Indian origin to lead the country.

A video shared on the Twitter page of the campaign group Just Stop Oil, captured a man and a woman smearing cake over the waxwork of the British monarch.

Kolkata: Cyclone Sitrang crossed the Bangladesh coast near Barisal after skirting the West Bengal coast, the IMD said on Tuesday. The weather in the southern West Bengal districts is likely to improve from forenoon, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The system, which moved towards Bangladesh from north Bay of Bengal at a speed of […]

Rishi Sunak’s parents were born and brought up in East Africa before they moved to the UK when then-President Idi Amin expelled Indians from Uganda.

Some 62 per cent of people said they wanted to see a general election be held in 2022, once Rishi Sunak had taken office as Prime Minister, polling company Ipsos has found.

Sunak was born into an Indian-descent family that immigrated to the UK from East Africa.

London: Rishi Sunak has won the race to be leader of the Conservative Party and will become Britain’s next prime minister — the third this year. The former Treasury chief will be Britain’s first leader of color, and faces the task of stabilizing the party and country at a time of economic and political turbulence. […]

His closest rival, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, dramatically pulled out of the race on Sunday evening, saying he has enough support but decided that it was not the right thing to do, the BBC reported.

The couple was dressed in ethnic Indian attire as they welcomed guests, and also lit the traditional lamp to mark the festival.