Month: April 2019

Sports Schedule for Sunday, April 14

CRICKET: *IPL match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings in Kolkata. *IPL match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi Capitals in Hyderabad. *Other stories related to Indian and international cricket. BADMINTON: *Singapore Open in Singapore. PTI

4-cornered contest on cards for Raiganj LS seat

Raiganj (WB), Apr 14: Once a Congress stronghold, the Raiganj Lok Sabha seat is set to witness a four-cornered contest this time, with the candidates of major political parties in the state pitted against each other in a neck-and-neck battle. Since 1952, Congress candidates have won the seat 13 […]

Will come to India soon: Robert Downey Jr

New Delhi, Apr 14: Indian members of Team Stark left Robert Downey Jr aka Iron Man overwhelmed by their love and adulation when they assembled in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru to meet their favourite superhero early Sunday morning. Downey Jr, who has been playing the much-loved character since […]

MP LS poll: Cong set to make gains after Assembly win

Bhopal, Apr 14:The absence of any discernible Narendra Modi wave and reversal of fortunes in the 2018 Assembly polls has put the BJP on the backfoot in Madhya Pradesh for the April-May Lok Sabha elections. The party had won 27 out of 29 parliamentary seats in the state […]

UK lawmakers: Julian Assange should face justice in Sweden

LONDON — More than 70 British legislators have urged the government to make sure WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces Swedish justice if prosecutors there reopen a rape allegation against him. The lawmakers signed a letter late Friday urging Home Secretary Sajid Javid to “do everything you can to […]

Ace Swedish coder held by Ecuador was defender of Assange

CARACAS, Venezuela — An ace Swedish programmer who was an early, ardent supporter of WikiLeaks has been arrested in Ecuador in an alleged plot to blackmail the country’s president over his abandonment of Julian Assange. But friends of Ola Bini say the soft-spoken encryption expert is being unfairly […]

Trump talks of releasing migrants in Dem cities

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he is strongly considering releasing “Illegal Immigrants” into Democratic strongholds to punish congressional foes for inaction on the border— just hours after White House and Homeland Security officials insisted the idea had been rejected as fast as it had been proposed. “Due […]

Hundreds participate in march to commemorate Jallianwala Bagh massacre centenary

NEW DELHI – Hundreds of people holding candles and the national flag marched through the northern Indian city of Amritsar on Friday, on the eve of the centenary of the colonial-era Jallianwala Bagh massacre that British Prime Minister Theresa May has called a “shameful scar.” On April 13, […]

Amit Shah vows to throw illegal immigrants into Bay of Bengal

NEW DELHI – The head of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Hindu nationalist party took his invective against illegal Muslim immigrants to a new level this week as the general election kicked off, promising to throw them into the Bay of Bengal. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President […]

Malaysia to free Vietnamese woman accused of Kim Jong Nam murder on May 3: lawyer

KUALA LUMPUR – A Vietnamese woman who had been accused of killing the half-brother of North Korea’s leader will be freed from a Malaysian prison on May 3, her lawyer said, a day earlier than previously expected. Doan Thi Huong, 30, was charged along with an Indonesian woman […]

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