INDIA

Authorities in Bahrain shut down an Indian restaurant after its manager allegedly denied entry to a woman wearing hijab. The incident occurred at Bahrain Lanterns, a restaurant in the Adliya area of the country's capital Manama last week on Thursday.

Indian hotel aggregator has delisted the hotel in Delhi which had denied accommodation to a Kashmiri man despite having valid identification cards. The development came after a video of the man being refused accommodation went viral on social media.

In a landmark ruling, an Indian court on Friday refused to dismiss rape charges filed against a man by his wife stating that "a rape is a rape," and that marriage does not grant "special license to unleash a beast."

A two-month-old baby was found dead in an out-of-order microwave oven in India's capital New Delhi. The incident took place on Tuesday in the Chirag Delhi area of the city.

At least eight people were burnt alive following the death of a village leader in Rampurhat village of Birbhum district in West Bengal, India.

The economic crisis faced by Sri Lanka is only worsening with each passing day, the country has now cancelled school exams for millions of students as it has run out of printing paper and ink

Former Tennis star Maria Sharapova and legendary F1 racer Michael Schumacher have been booked for fraud and criminal conspiracy on the basis of a complaint filed by a woman in India's Gurugram.

Isak Munda, a daily wage labourer from the Indian state of Odisha who was struggling to earn a living during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, has now become a YouTube star. He had uploaded his first video on the platform in March and now has almost 800,000 subscribers.

An Indian court has upheld the ban imposed on wearing hijab to schools and colleges in the southern state of Karnataka. The court dismissed as many as five petitions filed by students against the ban.

The ranger is reportedly the third victim that was mauled by the same tiger

The man was struck by a speeding motorcycle and declared dead in the hospital after showing no signs of life.

Many Indian children still experience violence at the hands of their own guardians.

The National Crime Bureau of India, as recently as 2017, recorded nearly 7,000 dowry linked deaths a year.

A doctor said such deformities occur in one in a million babies

The United States remains the worst-hit nation in the world, with the highest number of known fatalities and infections.

The Beijing-based tech company has not yet revealed how many of its 2,000 employees in India will be laid off.

The two vaccines "are being approved for restricted use in emergency situations," V.G. Somani, the drugs controller general of India, said at a briefing.

Labour unrest is not uncommon in India, with workers paid poorly and given few or no social security benefits.

Biden's first calls took place with US allies who had tense ties with Trump including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

It is believed that a childless couple paid two men to extract the child's liver to perform an occult ritual in hopes of conceiving a child.

The US has by far the worst death toll with almost 245,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins, ahead of Brazil on 164,281 and India on 128,668 dead.