Month: July 2019

Sonia, Rahul meet Congress MPs

New Delhi, Jul 8: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and its parliamentary party leader Sonia Gandhi Monday met new MPs of the party here as part of a training programme. Sonia Gandhi addressed the MPs and assured them of all the support from the Congress, a leader present at the […]

DGP Prisons visits Tihar Jail, discusses correctional programs

open view news desk NEW DELHI, JULY 8: Director General of Police, (Prisons), V K Singh today visited Tihar Jail, New Delhi to get acquainted with the best practices followed in the Prison. Singh called on Director General Tihar, Ajay Kashyap, during which various aspects of prison management […]

Governor launches “Green J&K Drive”

open view news desk SRINAGAR, JULY 08: Governor Satya Pal Malik launched the “Green J&K Drive” at an impressive function organized by the Forest Department at Zabarwan Hills here today. Sh. K Vijay Kumar, Sh. K K Sharma, Sh. K Skandan Advisors to Governor; Sh. Siddhanta Das, Director […]

Div Com kick starts J&K Green drive in Jammu

open view news desk JAMMU, JULY 08: Massive plantation drives were launched across districts of Jammu Division today to mark Green J&K initiative/ VanMohotsava- an initiative towards developing the ecology of the state in a more beneficial way. School children, employees and civil society members participated in the […]

Quakes alert Californians to be ready for dreaded ‘Big One’

RIDGECREST, Calif. — Shaken residents are cleaning up from two of the biggest earthquakes to rattle California in decades as scientists warn that both should serve as a wake-up call to be ready when the long-dreaded “Big One” strikes. California is spending more than $16 million to install […]

Before moon landing, astronauts learned geology in Arizona

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin knew they would be the first to walk on the moon, they took crash courses in geology at the Grand Canyon and a nearby impact crater that is the most well-preserved on Earth. Northern Arizona has had deep ties […]

Wealthy financier charged with molesting dozens of girls

NEW YORK — Eleven years after letting Jeffrey Epstein off lightly with a secret deal, federal prosecutors took another run at putting the billionaire financier behind bars on sex charges, accusing him in an indictment unsealed Monday of abusing dozens of underage girls as young as 14. The […]

Tennis: Nadal bursts Sousa’s bubble to reach Wimbledon quarters

LONDON – The sweet-spot in Rafael Nadal’s racket appeared to be the size of a beachball on Monday as the Spaniard fired off winners left, right and centre to hurtle into the Wimbledon quarter-finals with a ruthless 6-2 6-2 6-2 win over Joao Sousa. The Spaniard was not […]

Iran makes new nuclear threats that would reverse steps in pact

GENEVA/DUBAI – Iran threatened on Monday to restart deactivated centrifuges and ramp up its enrichment of uranium to 20 percent purity as its next potential big moves away from a 2015 nuclear agreement that Washington abandoned last year. The threats, made by the spokesman for Tehran’s nuclear agency, […]

Bus crash on highway to Taj Mahal kills 28, injures 18

NEW DELHI – A bus on Monday skidded off an expressway to Agra, home of the Taj Mahal, and fell into a drain, killing 28 people, after its driver apparently dozed off at the wheel, police said. Indian roads are among the world’s deadliest, with 464,910 accidents in […]

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