Month: March 2019

AP Photos: Family on the fringes sees hope in 7-year-old

NEW DELHI  — Someday, the family says, the 7-year-old will save them. “I’ll fight,” the boy’s mother said when her husband insisted their son start working. She vowed he would stay in school, no matter what. More than 20 years ago, Ruby Khan and her husband, Nisar, came […]

China’s Huawei sues to challenge US security law

SHENZHEN, China— Chinese tech giant Huawei is challenging a U.S. law that labels the company a security risk and would limit its access to the American market for telecom equipment. Huawei Technologies Ltd.’s lawsuit, announced Thursday, asks a federal court to throw out a portion of this year’s […]

Manafort scheduled to learn sentence for tax, bank fraud

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — When former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is sentenced for tax and bank fraud, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III will likely issue the same lecture he gives to drug dealers and bank robbers. “You write the pages to your own life story,” Ellis routinely […]

US asylum shift targets Spanish speakers, Latin Americans

SAN DIEGO — Border agents have been told to explicitly target Spanish speakers and migrants from Latin America in carrying out a Trump administration program requiring asylum seekers wait in Mexico, according to memos obtained by The Associated Press that reveal some inner workings of a top government […]

Pro-Vidarbha activists raise slogans at Gadkari’s rally

Nagpur :  Union minister and BJP leader Nitin Gadkari Wednesday expressed anger over some people raising slogans at a public meeting here in support of a separate Vidarbha state and threatened to get them “spanked and thrown out” from the event. Gadkari lost his cool when some people raised […]

Hardik Patel likely to join Congress on March 12

New Delhi :  Patidar leader Hardik Patel is said to join the Congress soon and is likely to contest the Lok Sabha election from Jamnagar constituency in Gujarat, top party sources said on Wednesday. “Patel, who led the agitation demanding reservation for the patidar community in Gujarat is likely […]

Railway stations on Shimla-Kalka route get free Wi-Fi

Shimla : All major railways station on the Shimla-Kalka heritage route will get free Wi-Fi, officials said on Wednesday. Himachal Pradesh chief minister Jai Ram Thakur launched the free Wi-Fi facility along with the ‘hop-on hop-off’ service which will let passengers get down at any station and board […]

Voters being deleted from electoral rolls: TDP

Machilipatnam (AP) :  TDP workers Wednesday staged a sit-in at the Krishna district collectorate and alleged that the opposition YSR Congress Party was deleting names of voters in the Andhra Pradesh’s Machilipatnam assembly constituency. They were led by Andhra Pradesh Law Minister Kollu Ravindra. The TDP supporters and leaders, […]

Hooch kills two in Uttarakhand village

New Tehri, Mar 7 (PTI) Two persons have died after consuming spurious liquor at Maroda village in Tehri district. Sona (75) and Sohan Lal (45) who had consumed spurious liquor on the occasion of Maha Shivratri on Monday died on Wednesday night, village head Juppal Singh said. They complained […]

Sensex, Nifty extend rally to fourth day

Mumbai :  Indian bourses continued their rising spree to the fourth session on Thursday, with both benchmarks Sensex and Nifty opening higher amid strengthening of country’s macroeconomic outlook following rising rupee and falling crude prices. The 30-share BSE Sensex was trading higher by 63.75 points, or 0.17 per cent, […]

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