A fire broke out at the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital in central Kolkata on Wednesday, reports NDTV. Nearly 250 patients have been evacuated. Ten fire engines are at the spot. There are no reports of any casualties.   The fire started the pharmacy of the hospital. The fire department was alerted after smoke was spotted from the building that ...

Canada’s Parliament formally stripped Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship on Tuesday for complicity in the atrocities committed against Myanmar’s Rohingya people. The Senate voted unanimously to strip Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s civilian leader, of the symbolic honor bestowed on her in 2007.   The upper house’s move follows a similar unanimous vote in the House of Commons ...

A Spanish nonprofit group said 34 migrants were feared dead after their group waited for more than 36 hours to be rescued from a semi-sunken boat in waters off Morocco. The Moroccan Interior Ministry said Tuesday 11 bodies were recovered and the boat’s teenage skipper had been detained. The migrants continuously pleaded for help from Spanish and Moroccan authorities for ...

Japan’s space agency (Jaxa) is about to send a 10kg lander to the surface of an asteroid. The Hayabusa-2 spacecraft will release the German-French Mascot lander onto the asteroid 162173 Ryugu on Wednesday.   Mascot will then analyse the asteroid’s surface properties, including its mineral composition and magnetic field.   Hayabusa-2 reached the asteroid Ryugu in June this year after ...

China’s Tencent Music has filed a much-anticipated request to list its shares in the US, in what could be one of the biggest US initial public offerings by a Chinese company. Tencent Music’s parent firm is China’s tech giant Tencent Holdings. Other shareholders include Spotify.   It includes digital streaming apps QQ Music, Kugou and karaoke app WeSing.   The ...

Houston, Oct 3 : A human trafficking survivor from Texas sued Facebook this week, alleging the social media platform provides human traffickers an unrestricted way to “stalk, exploit, recruit, groom … and extort children into the sex trade.” The lawsuit was filed Monday in Houston against Facebook, the shuttered classifieds site Backpage.com and the owners of two Houston hotels. The ...

The inaugural Asian Restaurant and Takeaway Awards (ARTA), the most  prestigious celebration of South Asian cuisine in the UK, paid homage to the UK’s  finest curry houses at the InterCont inental London – The O2 on the evening of 30th September 2018. ARTA 2018 welcomed a guest list of the nation’s most respected curry  restaurateurs alongside MPs, dignitaries and celebrities ...

By Taslim Ahammad: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a business approach that contributes to sustainable development by delivering economic, social and environmental benefits for all stakeholders. CSR research has blossomed in this new millennium due to the increasing concern expressed by policy makers about corporate social responsibility. The pressure applied on businesses to demonstrate high ethical standards; and for developing ...

Emdad Rahman: Team Orange on Behalf of the UK charity Penny Appeal have completed the Ealing Half Marathon for charity. The run at Lammas Park now recognised as West London’s biggest running event has three times been voted the UK’s best half marathon. The idea of bringing a half marathon to the London Borough of Ealing was first discussed in ...

MEPs attack adoption of skills-based policy and end to freedom of movement Senior EU figures have attacked Theresa May’s post-Brexit immigration planwith the president of the European commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, signalling that he expects a row with the British prime minister at an upcoming “moment of truth” summit. As May sketched out her plans to end freedom of movement and ...