Mumbai-born British businessman Lord Ghulam Kaderbhoy Noon, who earned the moniker ‘Curry King‘ for popularising Indian chicken tikka and curry in Britain and survived the 26/11 terror attacks in Taj Mahal and Palace Hotel in Mumbai, has died in London. Born in Mumbai on January 24, 1936, the 79-year-old Noon breathed his last — in […]
An Indian restaurant was demolished in Malaysia although it renewed the operating licence every year, the media reported. The restaurant, in Kuala Lumpur’s Ampang district for 16 years, was razed by officers from the district council on August 12, The Star online reported. Restaurant owner P. Subramanian said he was surprised because he had all […]
A three-year-old child fell into a 100-foot-deep borewell on Sunday in a field in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district. The army’s help has been sought in the rescue effort being carried out, a police official said. Raghav, son of villager Devendra Sharma, had gone along with his grandmother to the fields in Nand Gangoli village where […]
Officials of India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will hold a high-level meeting to discuss workers’ issues during Overseas Indian Affairs ministry secretary A.K. Agarwal’s visit to the Gulf nation beginning on Wednesday. The secretary during his four-day visit will discuss with senior officials of the UAE’s labour ministry issues pertaining to recruitment and […]
The Sikh community is offering free hot meals to the homeless and the poor in Northampton town in Britain, a media report said. This is done every Sunday, the Northampton Chronicle reported on Wednesday. A Sikh leader, Amarjit Atwal, was quoted as saying that the numbers queueing up for the free food had been growing […]
Finding himself cornered over his controversial statement on consumption of beef, especially by Muslims, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday offered his “regrets”, as the Centre sidestepped the issue and the opposition flayed him and even demanded his sacking. The controversy erupted after Khattar was quoted by an English daily on Friday as […]
Belligerent Shiv Sena activists abused and blackened the face of veteran journalist and L.K. Advani’s former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni to protest his organising the launch of former Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s book here on Monday but the event went on ahead amid high security. The incident created a nationwide outrage with condemnation from […]
Renowned music director Ravindra Jain, who overcame his blindness to chart a stellar career in Bollywood, died at private hospital here on Friday following prolonged illness, an aide said. He was 71. He is survived by his wife Divya and a son Arush. Jain, who breathed his last at Lilavati Hospital in Bandra around 4.15 […]
Can’t remember the exact date and place of meeting Jagmohan Dalmiya for the first time, but it was sometime in 1979 when he and his close friend Inderjit Singh Bindra were seen as the new kids on the block on the cricket scene. The two had shaken the then khalifas of Indian cricket who had […]
Radiant in its grandeur and serene in its effect, a newly inaugurated restored Ashoka Stupa in this remote Himalayan town close to Tibet symbolises the missionary zeal of Indians to spread the message of Buddhism since the ancient ages. Beckoning tourists and pilgrims alike, the dome-shaped shrine, whose complex includes a newly-installed giant 35 metre […]