Month: July 2019

Maoists thrash trader & son, set vehicles on fire

Latehar (Jharkhand), July 18: Armed Maoists thrashed a trader and his son and set on fire vehicles parked in his house in Lathehar district, police said here on Thursday. A group of Maoists went to the house of trader Ashok Sau at Mayapur village on Wednesday night and thrashed […]

LS productivity reaches 20-year high at 128 pc

New Delhi, Jul 18: The ongoing session of the 17th Lok Sabha has been the most productive in the last 20 years, with the lower house registering 128 per cent productivity till Tuesday, according to think tank PRS Legislative Research. Lok Sabha members discussed the General Budget for 17 […]

Ayodhya land dispute case: SC allows mediation process to continue, seeks report on outcome by Aug 1

New Delhi, Jul 18: The Supreme Court Thursday allowed mediation process in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case to continue and sought a report on its outcome by August 1. A five-judge Constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, said that after perusing the report filed by […]

Div Com visits Samba, interacts with PRIs and locals

open view news desk JAMMU, JULY 17: Divisional Commissioner Sanjeev Verma today conducted an extensive tour of district Samba and held interactive sessions with the PRIs and locals in panchayat Chachwal. He was accompanied by Deputy Commissioner Samba Sushma Chauhan, Assistant Commissioner Development ML Tasir, Sub Divisional Magistrate […]

Independence Day celebrations

open view news desk SRINAGAR, JULY 17: The Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Baseer Ahmad Khan today chaired a high level meeting here to review the arrangements for 73rd Independence Day celebrations across the Kashmir Division. He directed all Deputy Commissioners to organize grand ceremonies of 73rd Independence Day celebrations […]

5 % of all new buses to be registered as disabled- friendly

open view news desk SRINAGAR, JULY 17: Transport Department has decided to make it mandatory that a minimum of 5% of all new public transport buses should be registered as disabled-friendly. The decision was taken in a high-level meeting chaired by Principal Secretary Transport Dr Asghar Hassan Samoon […]

Drug kingpin El Chapo sentenced to life in US prison

Once one of the world’s most powerful and notorious criminals, Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was jailed for life Wednesday — the mandatory sentence for a host of crimes spanning a quarter-century. Guzman, the 62-year-old former co-leader of Mexico’s mighty Sinaloa drug cartel, was convicted in […]

John Paul Stevens emerged as Supreme Court’s leading liberal

WASHINGTON — John Paul Stevens moved left as the Supreme Court shifted to the right during his nearly 35 years as a justice. That’s how the bow-tie wearing Republican from the Midwest emerged as the leader of the high court’s liberal wing and a strong proponent of abortion […]

House vote condemning Trump’s tweets draws some GOP support

WASHINGTON — In a remarkable political repudiation, the Democratic-led U.S. House voted to condemn President Donald Trump’s “racist comments” against four congresswomen of color, despite protestations by Trump’s Republican congressional allies and his own insistence he hasn’t “a racist bone in my body.” Two days after Trump tweeted that […]

India aims to expel all illegal migrants, Amit Shah says

NEW DELHI – India will identify and deport illegal immigrants from across the country, Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday, stepping up a campaign that critics say could stoke religious tension and further alienate minority Muslims. An exercise to identify alien immigrants from Muslim-majority Bangladesh has been […]

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