Month: July 2019

Thousands take holy dip on “Aadi Amavasai” day

Rameswaram/Nagapattinam(TN), Jul 31: Thousands of people took a holy dip in the sea in Rameswaram and Vedaranyam in Nagapattinam district on Wednesday in connection with the “Aadi Amavasai” festival. Devotees performed rituals in memory of their forefathers as it is believed that they would help them reach the […]

Pak troops shell border areas along LoC in Rajouri

Jammu, July 31: Pakistani troops on Wednesday opened fire and shelled mortars along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, officials said. Indian troops gave a befitting reply, resulting in heavy damage to Pakistani Army posts and casualties to Pakistani soldiers, they said. “At about 0030 hours, the […]

Advisor Farooq Khan interacts with Sikh religious leaders

open view news desk JAMMU, JULY 30: Advisor Farooq Khan interacted with Sikh religious leader Mahant Manjit Singh ji of Dera Nangali Sahib and representatives of various organisations of the community to discuss the issues of public importance, here the other day. Speaking on the occasion, Mahant ji […]

Principal Secretary to Governor Bihar meets Governor

open view news desk SRINAGAR, JULY 30: Sh. Vivek Singh, Principal Secretary to Governor Bihar, met Governor Satya Pal Malik at the Raj Bhavan here today. Sh. Singh apprised Governor about various steps taken by the Bihar Government for raising standards of higher education and to-date status of […]

‘India Ashamed’: Outrage grows over BJP lawmaker accused of rape

NEW DELHI – Protesters stepped up demands on Tuesday for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to sack Uttar Pradesh lawmaker Kuldeep Singh Sengar accused by a young woman of raping her, holding several demonstrations just days after the accuser was critically injured in a highway collision. Opposition groups […]

Exclusive: India’s capital bans AB InBev for three years for alleged tax evasion

NEW DELHI – India’s capital city has banned the world’s largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev, from selling its products in the key New Delhi market for 3 years for allegedly evading local taxes, government orders seen by Reuters showed. The city government orders from earlier this month followed a […]

India protesters angry as alleged rape victim hurt in crash

NEW DELHI — Protesters took to the streets of India’s capital on Tuesday demanding a fast-track probe into a highway crash that killed two people and seriously injured two others, including a woman who has accused a ruling party lawmaker of rape. Opposition parties and women’s organizations claimed […]

India’s Parliament OKs ending instant divorce for Muslims

NEW DELHI — Indian lawmakers on Tuesday approved a bill to end the Muslim practice of instant divorce two years after the Supreme Court ruled that it violated the constitutional rights of Muslim women. Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the bill’s approval by the upper house of […]

US issues hacking security alert for small planes

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security issued a security alert Tuesday for small planes, warning that modern flight systems are vulnerable to hacking if someone manages to gain physical access to the aircraft. An alert from the DHS critical infrastructure computer emergency response tea m recommends that plane […]

Iranians say US sanctions blocking access to needed medicine

TEHRAN, Iran — Taha Shakouri keeps finding remote corners to play in at a Tehran children’s charity hospital, unaware that his doctors are running out of chemo medicine needed to treat the eight-year-old boy’s liver cancer. With Iran’s economy in free fall after the U.S. pullout from the […]

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