Day: March 14, 2019

Cong leader Tom Vadakkan joins BJP

New Delhi :  In a huge embarrassment to the Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, its spokesperson Tom Vadakkan, once a key aide of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, joined the BJP Thursday and attacked his former party for its stand on Balakot air strikes. Vadakkan, who joined the […]

Rahul accuses PM of listening only to Ambani, Nirav Modi

Thrissur (Kerala) : Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of ignoring voices of farmers, fishermen and small businessmen, Congress President Rahul Gandhi Thursday said the NDA government listened only to industrialists such as Anil Ambani and Nirav Modi. Interacting with fishermen at the National Fishermen Parliament organised by All India […]

BJD MP Balabhadra Majhi resigns from party

Bhubaneswar :  In a setback to the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) ahead of the elections, its Lok Sabha member Balabhadra Majhi Thursday resigned from the party claiming that he was “ignored and cheated”. “I have tendered my resignation from the primary membership of the BJD as I felt […]

Rs 1.16 crore cash seized from car in Noida

Noida : Over Rs 1 crore in cash was seized from a car here on Thursday amid restrictions clamped under the model code of conduct for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, police said. The car was intercepted near Behlolpur village under Noida Phase 3 police station limits around 12.45 […]

Boeing’s newest plane becomes its biggest headache

WASHINGTON  — Boeing’s newest version of its best-selling airliner ever was supposed to boost its fortunes for years to come. Instead it has turned into the company’s biggest headache, with more than 40 countries — including the U.S., which had been one of the last holdouts — grounding […]

R. Kelly’s sex videos have circulated nationwide for years

CHICAGO  — An acquaintance of R. Kelly’s recalled how the singer once lugged a duffel bag everywhere — to recording studios, film sets and gyms. Stuffed inside, she said, was a collection of his homemade VHS sex tapes. Despite Kelly’s efforts in the 1990s to hold those recordings […]

US immigration agents find ways around ‘sanctuary’ policies

PHOENIX  — Two years after New Mexico’s largest county barred local law enforcement from cooperating with immigration authorities, its leaders learned that the policy was being subverted from within. Staff members at the Bernalillo County jail in Albuquerque were still granting immigration authorities access to its database and, […]

US slams rights record of China and Iran, goes easier on N. Korea

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed China’s mass detention of Muslims but took a lighter hand on North Korea as the State Department released its annual human rights report Wednesday. Iran also came in for harsh criticism while rival Saudi Arabia, cited for many identical domestic rights abuses […]

Eight killed, 37 rescued, in Lagos building collapse

Rescuers on Wednesday recovered eight bodies and rescued 37 people alive from the wreckage of a collapsed four-storey building in the Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos Children had been attending an “illegal school” inside the residential building when the structure collapsed, officials said. “Thirty-seven people were rescued alive and […]

Venezuela calls public sector back to work as blackout recedes

Venezuela’s public employees were called to return to work Thursday after the government ended a nearly week-long hiatus caused by an unprecedented nationwide blackout that deepened widespread anger against President Nicolas Maduro. Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez said in an address on state television Wednesday that Maduro decided the […]

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