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  • Hindujas, UK’s Richest Family, Challenges Swiss Court Jail Sentences, Denies Human Trafficking |

    The Hindujas, Britain’s wealthiest family, on Friday said they were apalled by a Swiss court’s decision to impose jail sentences on some members in Geneva. They have filed an appeal in a higher court to challenge the verdict that found them guilty of exploiting vulnerable domestic workers.

    A statement released by the family’s Swiss lawyers emphasized that their clients—Prakash and Kamal Hinduja, both in their seventies, and their son Ajay along with his wife Namrata—were cleared of all human trafficking charges. They also refuted reports suggesting any family members were facing imprisonment, despite court reports from Geneva indicating sentences of four to four and a half years.

    The statement, signed by lawyers Yael Hayat, Robert Assael, and Roman Jordan, declared, “Our clients have been acquitted of all human trafficking charges. We are dismayed by the remaining decision of this first-instance court, and have naturally filed an appeal to the higher court, rendering this portion of the judgment non-effective.”

    They further clarified, “According to Swiss law, the presumption of innocence remains until a final judgment by the supreme adjudicating body is executed. Contrary to certain media claims, no family members are currently detained.”

    The lawyers also noted that the plaintiffs had retracted their complaints, affirming to the court their lack of intention to be involved in such legal actions.

    Concluding the statement, they expressed, “The family trusts the legal system and is confident that the truth will emerge victorious.”

    This announcement came after a session in Geneva, where prosecutors initiated proceedings for alleged illicit activities, including exploitation, human trafficking, and breaches of Swiss labor laws, against the family members who were charged with confiscating workers’ passports and preventing them from leaving.

  • Infected Blood Scandal: What Is UK’s Biggest Health Blunder That Made PM Rishi Sunak Say Apology? , world news

    The United Kingdom has recently come out of the months-long strike by the healthcare workers. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is already facing several challenges including taking the economy out of crisis and containing inflation. Now, a decades-old case has created a storm in Britain and has even forced Sunak to apologize for the same. The issue is ‘infected blood scandal’ that took place during 1980s. The worst part is that the health authorities tried to cover up the incident which resulted in multiple deaths.

    What Is Infected Blood Scandal?

    An inquiry report in the case has concluded that over 30,000 people received blood infected with viruses such as HIV and hepatitis. The Infected Blood Inquiry concluded that tainted blood was given between 1970s and 1990s to patients who needed blood transfusions for blood disorders such as haemophilia, accidents and surgery among others.

    The report said that around 3,000 people have died so far due to infected blood and more deaths may follow. The incident has been described as the biggest treatment disaster in the United Kingdom.

    Rishi Sunak Reacts

    Reacting to the shocking report, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologised to the House of Commons. Sunak termed the findings of the long-awaited report ‘a day of shame for the British state’. “Time and again people in positions of power and trust had the chance to stop the transmission of those infections and failed to do so”, said Sunak.

    On behalf of this and every Government stretching back to the 1970s, I am truly sorry. pic.twitter.com/eFQBPIvdBk — Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) May 20, 2024

    The Prime Minister also announced compensation measures for the victims. As per reports, the total compensation may cost the UK government over 10 billion pounds ($12 billion).

  • Prince Harry wins first stage in suit against UK tabloid

    By Associated Press

    LONDON: Prince Harry won the first stage of a libel suit against the publisher of Britain’s Mail on Sunday newspaper as a judge ruled Friday that parts of a story about his fight for police protection in the UK were defamatory.

    High Court Justice Matthew Nicklin hasn’t yet considered issues such as whether the story was accurate or in the public interest, defences that the newspaper will be able to offer in the next phase of the proceedings.

    The suit revolves around the newspaper’s coverage of a separate High Court action Harry filed in an effort to force authorities to provide police protection for the prince and his family when they are in the U.K. The government withdrew the family’s round-the-clock protection when Harry and his wife, Meghan, gave up front-line royal duties and moved to California.

    On Feb. 20, 2022, the Mail on Sunday reported that Harry sought a “far-reaching confidentiality order” to keep the details of his action against the government secret. Despite public statements by his spin doctors that the prince had always been willing to pay for police protection, that offer wasn’t made in his initial bid to overturn the government’s decision, the newspaper said.

    Harry claims that the Mail on Sunday libeled him when it suggested that the prince lied in his initial public statements about the suit against the government and that he “cynically” tried to confuse the public by authorizing his representatives to put out “false and misleading statements” about his willingness to pay for police protection.

    Nicklin ruled that the “natural or ordinary meaning” of the article was defamatory. But he stressed that the decision didn’t apply to other issues in the case.

    “This is very much the first phase in a libel claim,” the judge wrote in his decision. “The next step will be for the defendant to file a defense to the claim. It will be a matter for determination later in the proceedings whether the claim succeeds or fails, and if so on what basis.”

  • UK to hold days-long bash to celebrate Queen’s 70-year reign

    By Associated Press

    LONDON: Britain is getting ready for a party featuring mounted troops, solemn prayers — and a pack of dancing mechanical corgis.

    The nation will celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne this week with four days of pomp and pageantry in central London. But behind the brass bands, street parties and a planned appearance by the aging queen on the balcony of Buckingham Palace lies a drive to show that the royal family still remains relevant after seven decades of change.

    “The monarchy is not elected, so the only way in which a monarch can demonstrate consent is not through the ballot box, but through people turning out on the streets,” said Robert Lacey, the historical adviser on “The Crown″ series. “And if the monarch turns up on the balcony and waves and there’s no one there, that’s a pretty definitive judgment on the monarchy.

    “Well, when it comes to Elizabeth, the opposite has been the case. People can’t wait to mass and cheer together,” he added. And the royals, sometimes criticized as out of touch with modern Britain, want to show that their support comes from all parts of a society that has become more multicultural amid immigration from the Caribbean, South Asia, and Eastern Europe.

    As part of the jubilee pageant, dancers from London’s African-Caribbean community will don costumes of giant flamingos, zebras, and giraffes to re-imagine the moment in 1952 when Princess Elizabeth learned she had become a queen while visiting a game park in Kenya. Another group will recall the queen’s 1947 marriage to Prince Philip and celebrate weddings around the Commonwealth with Bollywood-style dancing.

    Members of the Mahogany carnival group take part in a rehearsal for their upcoming performance at the Platinum Jubilee Pageant. (Photo | AP)

    The jubilee is an opportunity for the royals to demonstrate their commitment to change and diversity, something the queen has embodied as she traveled the world over the last 70 years, said Emily Nash, royal editor of HELLO! magazine.

    “She’s been everywhere and she has engaged with people from all walks of life, from all creeds and colors and faiths,” Nash said. “I think it’s easy to see, in the sort of pomp and pageantry, perhaps more of a lack of diversity. But if you look at what the royal family actually do, the people they engage with, the places they go to, I think it’s perhaps a little unfair to say that it’s not as diverse as it could be.”

    If the depleted stock at the Cool Britannia gift shop is any indication, the jubilee has caught public attention. The shop around the corner from Buckingham Palace has run out of Platinum Jubilee tea towels. Spoons are sparse. Mugs are in short supply. And it’s not just foreign tourists who are buying all things Elizabeth. Visitors from around the U.K. are also hunting for jubilee mementos, said Ismayil Ibrahim, the man behind the counter.

    “It’s a very special year,” he said. “They’re celebrating it as a big event.”

    The question for the House of Windsor is whether the public will transfer their love for the queen to her son and heir, Prince Charles, when the time comes.

    It is a problem that stems, in part, from the queen’s unprecedented reign, the longest in British history. The only monarch most people have ever known, she has become synonymous with the monarchy itself.

    The archbishop with the ritual crownof England over the headof Queen Elizabeth II. (Photo | AP)Since assuming the throne after the death of her father on Feb. 6, 1952, Elizabeth has been a symbol of stability as the country negotiated the end of the Empire, the birth of the computer age, and the mass migration that transformed Britain into a multicultural society.

    The shy woman with a small handbag, a trailing corgi and a passion for horses presided over an era that spawned Monty Python, the Beatles, and the Sex Pistols. People who thought they knew her thought wrong — as evidenced by her star turn as a Bond Girl at the 2012 London Olympics.

    Yet through it all, the queen has built a bond with the nation through a seemingly endless series of public appearances as she opened libraries, dedicated hospitals, and bestowed honors on deserving citizens.

    Susan Duddridge feels that connection. The administrator from Somerset will dance in the Platinum Jubilee pageant, 69 years after her father marched in the queen’s coronation parade.

    “I think it’s amazing that the country always comes together when there’s a wedding, a royal jubilee, whatever the royals are involved in,” she said. “We love the queen!’’

    The past two years have highlighted the monarchy’s strengths as the queen alternately consoled a nation isolated by Covid-19 and thanked doctors and nurses for battling the disease.

    But its frailties were also on display as the 96-year-old monarch buried her husband and was slowed by health problems that forced her to turn over important public duties to Charles. That came amid the all-too-public tensions with Prince Harry and his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, who made allegations of racism and bullying in the royal household, and the sordid allegations about Prince Andrew’s links to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

    Against this backdrop, the jubilee is also part of the effort to prepare the public for the day when Charles takes the throne. Now 73, Charles has spent much of his life preparing to be king and battling a somewhat stuffy image that wasn’t helped by his ugly divorce from the still-adored Princess Diana.

    Charles reportedly may play a key role during the first event of the jubilee weekend, taking the salute of passing soldiers during the annual military review known as Trooping the Colour. The queen will attend the more than 400-year-old ceremony that marks her official birthday if she feels ok but will decide on the day.

    Elizabeth, who only recently recovered from Covid-19 and has begun using a walking stick, has given Charles an increasingly important role as the public face of the monarchy. Earlier this month, he stood in for his mother when what the palace describes as “episodic mobility problems” prevented her from presiding over the state opening of Parliament.

    Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II views a display of artefacts to commemorate the 70th anniversary of British craftwork company, Halcyon Days, in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle. (Photo | AP)

    Still, in the days afterward, she turned up at a horse show, opened a subway line, and toured the Chelsea Flower Show in a chauffeur-driven royal buggy — a sort of luxurious golf cart.

    “There is no blueprint for a reign of this length and, subsequently, I think the palace and courtiers are having to improvise all the time,” said Ed Owens, a royal historian and author of “The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public 1932-1953.”

    “In the case of Elizabeth II, we haven’t had a monarch this elderly who has reigned for so long and is so meaningful to so many people having to essentially transfer her role to the next in line.” But don’t expect the queen to leave the scene any time soon.

    Robert Hardman, biographer and author of “Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II’’ said he expects to see an even bigger party four years from now when Elizabeth turns 100.

    “A 100th birthday raises the intriguing prospect: Will she send a card to herself?” Hardman mused, referencing the queen’s tradition of sending a personal birthday card to anyone who reaches that milestone. “I’m looking forward to that debate in 2026.”

  • India, UK sign up to new climate finance initiative

    By PTI

    LONDON: The Indian and UK governments on Thursday agreed a new tie-up to finance inclusive, resilient and sustainable infrastructure in India by harnessing public and private capital to meet the country’s low-carbon goals.

    Climate Finance Leadership Initiative (CFLI) India initiative, which is backed by the City of London Corporation and led by Bloomberg’s CFLI, was announced at the 11th UK-India Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD) held via video conference between finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her British counterpart Rishi Sunak.

    “Supporting India’s green growth is a shared priority so I’m pleased that we’ve announced a USD 1.2 billion investment package, and launched the new CFLI India partnership, to boost investment in sustainable projects in India as the UK gears up to host COP26,” said Sunak.

    “We expect that the platform would be able to mobilise private capital, at scale, into climate and environment sectors, particularly green and resilient infrastructure,” noted Sitharaman.

    The aim of the CFLI India project is to drive capital into India through public, private, and multilateral initiatives to help the country meet its 2015 Paris Agreement commitments, which include a pledge to reduce emissions intensity of GDP by 33-35 per cent by 2030.

    “The Climate Finance Leadership Initiative is working to eliminate barriers to investment and create market conditions to drive more capital to green projects – and this collaboration between India and the UK, two of the world’s largest and most dynamic economies, can create a model for countries around the world to learn from,” said CFLI Chair Michael R Bloomberg, UN Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions.

    The City of London Corporation, the governing body of the financial hub of the UK capital known as the Square Mile, said it will support the initiative by providing a secretariat from London and the organisation’s long-standing representative office in Mumbai.

    “CFLI India is a genuinely new approach to mobilising capital at the scale and pace demanded by the global transition to net zero,” said William Russell, the Lord Mayor of the City of London.

    “In order to raise the trillion of dollars of investment needed, we must connect London’s innovation and talent together with India’s dynamism and industry. Together we can cut emissions and fight back against climate change,” he said.

    City of London Corporation Policy Chair Catherine McGuinness said London, as a leading international financial centre and global hub for green finance, is well placed to support this as a world leader in green finance, innovation and capital raising through CFLI India.

    “India has already taken bold steps to decarbonise its economy, but billions of financing is still needed to help the country meet its climate commitments,” she said.

    The announcement of CFLI India comes in advance of November’s UN Climate Change Conference – better known as COP26 – in Glasgow, where the City of London Corporation and Green Finance Institute are holding a hybrid summit on green finance.

    “It is critical that as we move towards a more sustainable future that financial markets like London partner with leading countries like India to develop projects that address climate change,” said Shravan Joshi MBE, City Corporation representative at CFLI.

    CFLI India will be co-chaired by Shemara Wikramanayake, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Macquarie Group, and Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Group, and comprises major private sector Indian and multinational corporates and financial institutions.

  • All passengers from UK to be tested for COVID-19 on arrival between January 8-30: Health Ministry

    By Express News Service
    NEW DELHI: The passengers reaching India from the UK between January 8 and January 30 will have to carry negative RT-PCR tests and will be subjected to selfpaid Covid-19 tests on arrival, the Centre said in a standard operating procedure issued on Saturday. Travellers from the UK will need to get their negative reports from tests done 72 hours prior to the journey, as per the guidelines. India had suspended all flights to and from the UK from December 23 to 31 to check the spread of the mutated and more contagious variant of coronavirus found there. Later, the suspension was extended till January 7.

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    The restrictions however will be relaxed from January 8 and 30 flights per week will operate between India and the UK in an arrangement that will continue till January 23. “Airlines to ensure the availability of negative test reports before allowing the passenger to board the flight,” the health ministry’s SOP said, adding that adequate arrangements should be made for the passengers who will be waiting for their RT-PCR test or its results at the airport.

    “Passengers testing positive shall be isolated in an institutional isolation facility in a separate (isolation) unit coordinated by the respective state health authorities,” the SOP said. If the genomic sequencing indicates the presence of the new variant of SAR S-CoV-2, the patient will continue to remain in a separate isolation unit, as per the guidelines. The patient will be tested on the 14th day after having tested positive and he or she will be kept in the isolation facility till his or her sample has tested negative, it added.

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    If a passenger tests Covidpositive on arrival, passengers seated in the same row, three rows in front and three rows behind would also be subjected to institutional quarantine in separate quarantine centres, as per the planned protocol. The passengers who are found Covid-negative after the tests conducted at the airport would be advised home quarantine for 14 days and the concerned state or district administration should regularly follow up with them.

  • Editorial :- 1948 Mahatma Gandhi Kee Hatya ke Samay Yuva……

    In the case of RSS contempt, Rahul Gandhi is sued for defamation. The hearing started. Rahul Gandhi had made false accusations in his statement saying that Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by the Sangh.

    Now in the UK, Rahul Gandhi has said that the Congress did not have the hand in the 1984 massacre of Sikhs. Congress leaders, especially Chidambaram and Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, have said that in 1984 Rahul Gandhi was a child, so his hand was not in that massacre.

    On the basis of this misconception, it was also proved that Gandhi was young when Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948. That is why they alleged that the Sangh had been behind the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.

    If we happen to have any developments in India, then remember it for some time, but gradually we forget it.

    That is why we forgot the massacre of Sikhs in 1984 and today is the government of the Congress in Punjab. But critics say that Rahul Gandhi has taken the trouble of sitting in the Congress after refusing to play the role of Congress. They are trapped in a vision by giving it a clean sweep.

    In 2014, Arnab Goswami can be presented as a proof of U-turn for Rahul Gandhi’s previous confession about Congress-persons joining the riots.

    The Congress President has made many derogatory remarks on his visit to Germany and the United Kingdom, but his remarks on the anti-Sikh riots have created unprecedented confusion

    BJP on Monday accused Congress President Rahul Gandhi of being false on the comments made in the UK on the participation of his party in the brutal Sikh riots of 1984.

    In this context on Twitter, BJP has shared a video that includes clips of Rahul Gandhi’s interview to Arnab Goswami, editor-in-chief of Republic TV from January 2014, where he accepted the involvement of Congress party members in the events. Was there. According to the official counting, the death of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, as per the official count, nearly 3000 members of the Sikh community were killed, and many times according to informal figures.

    Here is the conversation between Rahul Gandhi and Arnab Goswami from 2014:

    Arnab Goswami: Do you apologize for the 1984 riots? Was the Congressman involved?

    Rahul Gandhi: Some Congressmen were probably involved. Arnab Goswami: Do you accept that some Congressmen were probably involved?

    Rahul Gandhi: Some Congressmen have been punished for this.

    It is clear from this that Rahul Gandhi is also going to defeat Hitler’s campaigning minister Goebbels by lying on lies.

    They call themselves Congress In the reign of his great-grandfather Nehru, grandmother Indira, father Rajiv Gandhi and mother Sonia Gandhi, they danced on their heads, but in their regime, in the context of the riots like Bhagalpur and the riots of 1984, they sweep away saying that Rahul Gandhi So were the children at that time.

    Rahul Gandhi should know that he should introduce maturity because he is now senior, and after 5-6 years, Congress may celebrate his 51st anniversary.

    Now they should stop the childish act in politics. If they do not get used to their habit, at least they will have to stop defaming India on foreign soil. They have also filed a lawsuit in this regard and the public will also teach them a lesson.

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