Results for Tag: Indian
Job for Indian royal descendant
A descendant of India’s last Mughal emperor has been rescued from a life of penury in Calcutta by getting a job with the state-run Coal India.Madhu is the illiterate great-great-granddaughter of emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and has been
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Scribe who flung shoe at Indian minister sacked
NEW DELHI (Agencies) - Jarnail Singh, the Sikh journalist who created a stir by flinging a shoe at Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram, was on Thursday sacked by his employers.Singh, who was a defence correspondent with a Hindi daily for
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Indian court allows homosexuality
NEW DELHI (AFP) - A top Indian court issued a landmark ruling on Thursday decriminalising gay sex between consenting adults, overturning colonial-era legislation that outlawed homosexuality.The New Delhi High Court ruled that an existing
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