Day: September 7, 2019

Hong Kong police stave off airport protest after night of violence

HONG KONG – Hong Kong police checked people travelling to the airport for passports and air tickets on Saturday, preventing protesters gathering for another “stress test” of road and rail links in the Chinese-ruled city. The increased scrutiny was aimed at avoiding the chaos of last weekend, when […]

India loses contact with spacecraft on mission to the moon

BENGALURU/MUMBAI – India lost contact with a spacecraft it was trying to land on the moon on Saturday, its space agency said, in a setback for the nation’s ambitious plans to become the first country to probe the unexplored lunar south pole. The lander of the Chandrayaan-2 moon […]

Pak violates ceasefire along LoC in J-K’s Poonch

Jammu, Sep 7:  The Pakistan army on Saturday targeted forward posts and villages in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district with firing from small arms and mortar shelling, ending nearly a week-long lull along the Line of Control (LoC) , a defence spokesman said. The small arms firing and […]

Hubby booked for abetting suicide of wife

Thane, Sep 7: An FIR has been registered by city police against the husband and in-laws of a 28-year-old woman, days after she allegedly killed her two children before committing suicide, police said on Saturday. The FIR also names a Gujarat police officer for allegedly not acting on the […]

Rape case: Goa cops get transit remand of swimming coach

Panaji, Sep 7: A court in Delhi on Saturday granted Goa police the transit custody of swimming coach Surajit Ganguly, accused of raping a 15-year-old girl training with him, till September 10, police said. Ganguly, who was on the run since the case was registered, was arrested from Kashmiri […]

There will be a new dawn: Modi on Chandrayaan-2

Bengaluru, Sep 7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asked ISRO scientists not to get disheartened by the hurdles in the moon mission Chandrayaan-2 and asserted that there will be a “new dawn” ISRO’s plan to soft land Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram module on the Lunar surface did not go as […]

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