Month: December 2018

Mayor JMC meets Governor

open view web desk JAMMU, DECEMBER 18: Sh. Chander Mohan Gupta, Mayor, Jammu Municipal Corporation, met Governor Satya Pal Malik at the Raj Bhavan here today. Sh. Gupta shared with Governor his Action Plan to make Jammu clean and green besides ensuring round the clock provision of basic […]

Governor chairs Security Review Meeting

open view web desk JAMMU, DECEMBER 18: In a meeting involving senior officers of the State, Police, Army, Central Police Forces, and Central Intelligence Agencies, Governor Satya Pal Malik undertook a detailed review of various security related issues at the Headquarters of Northern Army Command in Udhampur. The […]

Sunanda death case: Court directs police to hand over documents to Tharoor

New Delhi, Dec 18:A court here directed Delhi Police on Tuesday to hand over certain documents to Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, accused in a case related to wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal passed the directions after he was told by senior advocate Vikas […]

Triple Talaq bill discriminatory: AIMIM

Hyderabad, Dec 18: The AIMIM Tuesday alleged that the triple talaq bill introduced by the NDA government was discriminatory. The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi said he would be proposing amendments to it to “ensure that deserted spouses are protected.”  “Continuing his longstanding tradition of terrible […]

Badal urges Sonia to ask Kamal Nath to resign as CM

Chandigarh, Dec 18: UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi should ask Kamal Nath to resign as Madhya Pradesh chief minister for his alleged involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and face the law, SAD leader Parkash Singh Badal demanded Tuesday.  The former Punjab CM said the Congress had “acknowledged the substance […]

Indian techie returns after 6 yrs in Pakistan jail

Attari (Amritsar), Dec 18: A software engineer from Mumbai, who had spent around six years in a Pakistan jail, was reunited with his family after he returned to India through the Attari-Wagah border on Tuesday evening. Hamid Ansari, 33, was earlier released from a jail in Peshawar on Tuesday […]

Hatred stirred by leaders blamed for rise in journalist murders: watchdog

Hatred whipped up by “unscrupulous politicians” has contributed to the shocking rise in the number of journalists murdered in 2018, a media watchdog said Tuesday. Eighty journalists have been killed worldwide so far this year — most notably the Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi — with 348 in jail […]

Xi warns no one can ‘dictate’ China’s path, 40 years on from reforms

President Xi Jinping warned Tuesday that no one can “dictate” China’s economic development path as the Communist Party marked 40 years of its historic “reform and opening up” policy amid a stern challenge from the United States. In a speech at the grandiose Great Hall of the People, […]

Bangladesh’s most celebrated swimmer hangs up trunks at 67

After nearly half a century navigating Bangladesh’s thousands of miles of rivers, the country’s most celebrated swimmer has hung up his trunks — but not before one final, arduous paddle upstream. Kshitindra Baisya, 67, plans to spend his retirement on dry land inspiring younger generations to embrace the […]

UK steps up no-deal Brexit plans with 3,500 soldiers on standby

British ministers agreed Tuesday to make no-deal Brexit planning “an operational priority” amid continued opposition to Prime Minister Theresa’s May draft divorce deal, just 14 weeks before the country leaves the EU. Following a meeting of her cabinet — the last before parliament breaks for the Christmas/New Year […]

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