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Lee Hanson says her mother’s comments about the White Australia policy were misinterpretedLee Hanson, daughter of One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, has said her mother’s comments about the White Australia policy have been “misinterpreted”.In an interview on a podcast hosted by the far-right British activist Tommy Robinson, Pauline Hanson blamed the end of the White Australia policy for creating what she sees as problems with migration.Lee Hanson told Sky on Sunday night that “snippets” of her mother’s comments were “misinterpreted”: double quotation markI know who Pauline is, Mum is, and I know that’s not what her intention was in any…

Amjad won’t go abroad again, says his father Three months after languishing at an undisclosed detention centre in Saudi Arabia where he was held incommunicado for a Facebook post on late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei, Amjad Ali Bhat, 29, from J&K’s Baramulla has finally returned home. Amjad’s disappearance in Saudi Arabia and his worried family’s SOS to authorities of both countries were widely covered by TOI.Sharing his ordeal, Amjad, who returned Friday, said: “I was at my workplace in Dammam March 25, when at least six security officers, one in uniform, took me for questioning, which they said would take…

By lunchtime today, the UK will have its fifth prime minister in four years.No other sentence can so pithily summarise the nature of British politics right now than that one.In the summer of 2022 Boris Johnson was on his way out, but still in office. Since then there has been Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer.Little wonder Andy Burnham will say later, we are told, that he is “acutely conscious” of this churn at the top. His critics, within the Labour Party and beyond it, may allow themselves a wry smile at that, given they would argue he…

Aamir Khan was allegedly issued a threat by jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s brother Aarzoo Bishnoi and gang member Tyson Bishnoi on Facebook for promoting ‘love jihad’ Navi Mumbai: Minister of state for home (urban) Yogesh Ramdas Kadam said Mumbai Police have initiated a suo motu inquiry into the threat issued to actor Aamir Khan in the name of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang accusing him of promoting ‘love jihad’.Kadam said they will contact the Khan, who recently married Gauri Spratt, after he returns to India. The actor is currently abroad.The social media post, purportedly by gangsters Tyson Bishnoi and Aarzoo Bishnoi…

New Delhi: Medical ethics revised and endorsed repeatedly since 1993 by the World Medical Association (WMA) emphasizes that it is unethical to forcibly treat those on hunger strike if they have refused treatment.“All kinds of interventions for enteral (feeding through a tube straight into the stomach) or parenteral (intravenous-IV) feeding against the will of the mentally competent hunger striker are to be considered as ‘forced feeding’. Forced feeding is never ethically acceptable,” states the WMA declaration.“Hunger strikes are usually a form of protest by people who lack other ways of making their demands known. In refusing nutrition for a significant…

Karnataka high court High Court of Karnataka in Bangalore on Saturday. Bengaluru: Karnataka high court has held that if a person dies while riding a borrowed vehicle in an accident caused by his own negligence, he is treated as stepping into the shoes of the vehicle owner and, as the tortfeasor (wrongdoer), is entitled only to the personal accident cover available to the owner under the insurance policy.Applying this principle, Justice Geetha KB reduced the compensation payable in a 2015 accident case from Rs 3.4 lakh, awarded by the motor accident claims tribunal (MACT) in Karwar, to Rs 1 lakh.The…

Warangal: A 52-year-old Congress worker, A Mahesh, was allegedly doused in petrol and set ablaze near Kotilingala temple on the outskirts of Warangal on Saturday night. He sustained severe burns and succumbed while being shifted to Hyderabad for better treatment. Police were tight-lipped about the alleged killers.Around 8.30pm, Mahesh was invited by a fellow Congress worker, Jannu Madhu, for a booze session at an isolated place near the Kotilingala Temple. They were joined by Pathri Kumar, also a Congress worker, and another person, Geesugonda police have said.During the drinking session, Pathri Kumar, a history-sheeter and an accused in a murder…

MOBILITY BOOST: The Yamaha factory at Vallam Vadagal Chennai has long been home to India’s two-wheeler manufacturing heavyweights. Alongside TVS Motor and Royal Enfield, Japanese motorcycle maker Yamaha is now giving the city a bigger role in its global ambitions—not merely as a production base but as the company’s major export hub. More than a decade after opening its factory at Vallam Vadagal near Chennai, Yamaha is repositioning the facility from a domestic manufacturing plant into a global production centre that will manufacture both internal combustion engine (ICE) and electric vehicles (EVs), while expanding its role in serving export markets.The…

Ahmedabad: The accused in the Vastral firecracker factory blast resumed operations about 20-25 days ago, taking advantage of the police being occupied with Rath Yatra bandobust, Ahmedabad police commissioner Anupam Singh Gahlaut said on Sunday, adding that all three accused have been arrested.Talking to reporters at a press conference at the city police commissioner’s office, Gahlaut said accused Mehul Dodiya, his mother Ramila Dodiya, and her partner Sadik Syed were running the unit in Ramol, which had witnessed a similar blast in July 2014 in which one person died.“On March 4, 2026, the unit was closed by police due to…

Prayagraj: The southwest monsoon remained active over Prayagraj on Sunday, bringing widespread cloud cover and intermittent rain across the district for the second consecutive day. While the showers provided relief from heat and humidity, they also triggered waterlogging and power disruptions in several parts of the city.Unlike the scattered showers witnessed over the past few weeks, rain was reported from most parts of the district, though its intensity varied considerably from one locality to another. Areas including Civil Lines, Georgetown, Kareli, Rajrooppur, Lukerganj, Jhunsi, Sulem Sarai, Naini and several trans-Ganga and trans-Yamuna villages received spells of rain at different intervals…