Month: December 2018

Prime Minister of Bhutan calls on the President

open view web desk Dr Lotay Tshering, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan, called on the President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, at Rashtrapati Bhavan today (December 29, 2018). Welcoming Dr. Tshering to India, the President said that he was delighted to welcome the Bhutanese delegation to India […]

Exhibition ‘Dandi Yatra’ as part of 150th birth anniversary celebrations of the Mahatma Gandhi inaugurated in the Capital, today

open view web desk Exhibition ‘Dandi Yatra” organized by the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Ministry of Culture, Government of India was inaugurated today, 29th December 2018, in the National Capital by Dr. Y.P Anand, a Senior Gandhian and former Director, National Gandhi Museum, New Delhi. It […]

Trump and China loom over a tumultuous year in Asia

SEOUL, South Korea — To judge by the stream of extraordinary images on the Korean Peninsula, you might think 2018 marked the beginning of an elusive peace in one of the world’s last vestiges of the Cold War. Just months after a barrage of threats of missile strikes […]

New Year’s Eve party in Times Square to cheer for press freedom

NEW YORK  – Reporters will be the guests of honor at the New Year’s Eve party in New York’s Times Square on Monday, in what organizers said was a celebration of press freedom after an unusually deadly year for journalists at U.S. news outlets. Two attacks in particular […]

Government doubles export incentives for onion farmers to 10 percent

NEW DELHI  – The Indian government on Friday doubled export incentives for onion farmers to 10 percent, following steep drops in recent weeks in the prices for onions, a staple food in India. The move will result in better prices for onions in the domestic market, the government […]

Modi’s clampdown on e-commerce in India may not win back votes of small retailers

NEW DELHI  – India’s new curbs on e-commerce companies may not be enough to win over small store owners and traders in next year’s general election, with the key voting bloc still seething over what it sees as broken promises by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. From Feb. 1, […]

Supreme Court lays low after Kavanaugh confirmation

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court began its term with the tumultuous confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, followed by a studied avoidance of drama on the high court bench — especially anything that would divide the five conservatives and four liberals. The justices have been unusually solicitous of each […]

UK honors cave rescue divers, Twiggy, Monty Python’s Palin

LONDON  — British divers who rescued young soccer players trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand are among those being recognized in Britain’s New Year’s Honors List, along with 1960s model Twiggy and Monty Python star Michael Palin. Twiggy, a model who shot to stardom during the Beatles […]

Japan shows video of alleged radar lock-on by SKorea warship

TOKYO  — Japan released video footage Friday it said proved a South Korean warship locked its fire-control radar onto a Japanese warplane off the northeastern coast in the latest move of an escalating row between the Asian neighbors. The Defense Ministry’s just over 13-minute footage, filmed from the […]

Lawyer: McCarrick repeatedly touched youth during confession

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s sexual abuse case against ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has expanded significantly after a man testified that the retired American archbishop sexually abused him for years starting when he was 11, including during confession. James Grein testified Thursday in New York before the judicial vicar […]

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