Pope Francis will visit an Irish shrine and hold a giant mass in Dublin on Sunday as he wraps up a visit overshadowed by abuse scandals and cover-ups in the Catholic Church. Francis is due to speak in front of some 500,000 faithful in Phoenix Park, as abuse victims and their supporters gather in a "Stand for Truth" rally in the city centre to demand justice.
Khalistan supporters infiltrated Congress president Rahul Gandhi's final public event in the UK and had to be removed by police during the warm-up to his arrival. TOI had reported last week how members of various right wing PIO community groups had planned, over Whatsapp, to disrupt this particular event by heckling or throwing tomatoes. The Indian Overseas Congress (UK) told TOI that they had hired two security firms and deployed police to ensure the Ramada Hotel event went smoothly.
While speaking to the students at the London School of Economics, Congress president Rahul Gandhi has said the party was beset with a "GenNext vs Old Guard" clash in 2014 and put down the generational tiff and consequent organisational disarray in the last years of the UPA government as a key reason for the party's debacle in an election that saw BJP win a clear majority.
Pope Francis arrived in Ireland on Saturday for a highly charged visit to a society transformed since the last papal trip 39 years ago and beset by the kind of abuse scandals that have mired the Catholic Church in crisis.
The airline said the decision had nothing to do with US President Donald Trump's imposition of new sanctions on Iran, which has affected foreign businesses operating in the country, with many pulling out altogether.
With seven months until Britain leaves the EU on March 29, negotiations on divorce terms and future trade have bogged down amid infighting within British Prime Minister Theresa May's divided Conservative government about how close an economic relationship to seek with the EU.
Ahead of Rahul Gandhi's forthcoming visit to the UK, organisers of his engagements here are alleging that a plan by right-wing PIO (Persons of Indian Origin) groups could be afoot to disrupt two of Congress chief's engagements. Sanam Arora, founder and chairperson of the National Indian Students & Alumni Union (NISAU) UK, which is co-organising the LSE event, said: "We have been notified that some people are apparently planning such anti-India activities and we are appalled if this is true."
“We are taking steps to remove the taboo at Leicester… by having more open conversations about menopause,” Dr Andrea Davies, from the University of Leicester School of Business, said.
The 51-year-old Pakistani national, who appeared in the dock at Westminster Magistrates' Court here today after being arrested by Scotland Yard's Extradition Unit last week, faces extradition to the US following an FBI investigation dating back to 2005, the court was told.
Jabir Motiwala, an Indian-origin accomplice of India's most wanted terrorist, Dawood Ibrahim, has been arrested in London and will appear at Westminster magistrates' court on Tuesday.
Salih Khater, a British national of Sudanese descent, was initially held on terror charges as Scotland Yard's Counter-Terrorism Command took charge of the investigation.
The Ministry of Justice said on Monday it had taken back control of the Victorian-era HMP Birmingham to counter "squalid" conditions where blood, urine, vomit and faeces were left to fester in cells and showers, attracting rats and cockroaches.
Jabir Siddiq, aka Jabir Moti, is believed to be the right-hand man of Dawood, managing his investments in the UK, UAE and around the world. Jabir Moti, 51, is believed to be close to both Dawood and his wife, Mehjabeen, as their finance manager. The Pakistani national, reportedly in the UK on a 10-year visa, is likely to have been held on drugs-related charges.
