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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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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