Day: September 19, 2019

Army Chief Bipin Rawat pays obeisance at Badrinath

Gopeshwar, Sep 19: Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat on Thursday paid obeisance at Himalayan shrine Badrinath in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district. Accompanied by his family, Gen Rawat landed at the helipad near the shrine in an army helicopter and offered prayers at the temple. The Army Chief had also visited […]

At meeting with Shah, Mamata raises Assam NRC issue

New Delhi, Sep 19: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday told Union Home Minister Amit Shah that genuine Indians belonging to Bengali, Bihari, Gorkha and Assamese communities were excluded from the NRC in Assam and sought his intervention to ameliorate their miseries. This was conveyed by Banerjee […]

In new Sudan, women want more freedom, bigger political role

CAIRO — On her daily walks from home to her job at a primary school in the city of Port Sudan, Khalda Saber would urge people to join the protests against the three-decade rule of Sudan’s autocratic President Omar al-Bashir. At school, she rallied fellow teachers to join […]

Israelis contend with prospect of third poll days after vote

JERUSALEM — Israelis were contending with the prospect of a third election on Thursday, two days after an unprecedented repeat election left the country’s two main political parties deadlocked, with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his rivals holding a clear path to a coalition government. While weeks […]

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