Day: October 30, 2019

Will complete full term, says Karna CM Yediyurappa

Bengaluru, Oct 30 : As the BJP government in Karnataka led by him is all set to complete 100 days in office on November 2, Chief Minister B SYediyurappa on Wednesday expressed confidence about completing his full term. Rejecting suggestions that the party high command was trying to control […]

CCTV DVR stolen from troubled Kapol bank’s branch

Mumbai, Oct 30 : Unidentified burglars stole the digital video recorder (DVR) of CCTV cameras from the closed Malad (west) branch of the Kapol Cooperative Bank, police said on Wednesday. The branch has been shut since the last two years after the RBI dissolved the board of the bank […]

NC appeals for maintaining Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood

Jammu, Oct 30 : The National Conference on Wednesday made a last-minute appeal to the Centre to shelve the plan of bifurcating Jammu and Kashmir into union territories and urged it to maintain the statehood of the 200-year-old state. Two union territories — Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh — […]

Fadnavis elected Maha BJP legislature party leader

Mumbai, Oct 30 : Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was on Wednesday re-elected leader of the state BJP legislature party. All the 105 newly-elected BJP MLAs were present at the meeting, where Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar and party vice president Avinash Rai Khanna were present as central observers. […]

Trump’s Rust Belt revival is fading. Will it matter in 2020?

TOLEDO, Ohio — President Donald Trump once promised that coal and steel would be the beating heart of a revived U.S. economy — a nostalgic vision that helped carry him to victory three years ago in the industrial Midwest. But a year away from Election Day, that promised […]

Protests in Iraq and Lebanon pose a challenge to Iran

BAGHDAD — The day after anti-government protests erupted in Iraq, Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani flew into Baghdad late at night and took a helicopter to the heavily fortified Green Zone, where he surprised a group of top security officials by chairing a meeting in place of the prime […]

Lutheran sisters recall nursing those wounded at Berlin Wall

BERLIN — Sister Brigitte Queisser walks slowly along the decaying remains of the Berlin Wall, its rusty rebar reinforcement exposed where the concrete has crumbled away. The 77-year-old pauses to catch her breath, opens a gate and steps from the former democratic West Berlin into what used to […]

UK’s party leaders brace for Brexit election

LONDON : — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn were set to trade barbs over Brexit and public spending Wednesday when they face off in Parliament for the last time before a Dec. 12 general election. The House of Commons on Tuesday approved an […]

Californians struggle with winds, fires, blackouts

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Californians on Wednesday found themselves facing winds, wildfires and darkness from yet another power outage that hit more than 1 million people. Frustration and anger mounted across Northern California as Pacific Gas & Electric, the state’s largest utility, began its third round of sweeping […]

China ‘supports’ barring of Joshua Wong from Hong Kong election

Beijing, Oct 30 : Beijing expressed “approval and support” Wednesday for the disqualification of Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong from upcoming local elections, after months of protests in the semi-autonomous city. Wong, one of the most prominent figures in the otherwise leaderless movement, accused the Hong Kong government […]

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