Banda (UP), Oct 6: Three persons, including a child, were burnt alive when a bike hit a truck and caught fire in Kabrai area in Mahoba district, police said on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday when Anil Prajapati (25), his friend Bijju (17) and a four-year-old boy […]
New Delhi, Oct 6: The finance ministry will kick-start the exercise to prepare annual Budget for 2020-21 from October 14 which, among other thing, will have to address critical issues pertaining to slowdown in growth and subdued revenue collection. It will be the second Budget of both the Modi […]
New Delhi, Oct 6: Two coaches of the Lucknow-Anand Vihar train derailed near Moradabad station on Sunday, officials said. No injuries have been reported so far, Northern Railways PRO Deepak Kumar said. The fifth and eighth coach of the train derailed between Katghar and Moradabad stations at 10:15 am, […]
Thane, Oct 6: A court here in Maharashtra has awarded three-year rigorous imprisonment to a 40-year-old man for molesting a teenage girl in 2017, observing it is an “offence against society at large”. Special (POCSO) court judge R V Tamhanekar in his order last week, said leniency in such […]
BAGHDAD — The Latest on anti-government protests in Iraq (all times local): 5:55 p.m. Iraqi officials say five people have been killed in renewed anti-government protests in the Iraqi capital after security forces fired on them on a fifth day of unrest. The protests Saturday come after a […]
HONG KONG — A group of pro-democracy Hong Kong legislators filed a legal challenge Saturday against the government’s use of a colonial-era emergency law to criminalize the wearing of face masks at rallies to quell anti-government demonstrations, as the protests diminished in intensity but didn’t stop. The mask […]
NEW DELHI – Indian police on Monday arrested Joy Thomas, the former managing director of Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank (PMC), which has been accused of creating fictitious accounts to hide loans, a spokesman for Mumbai Police said on Friday. The PMC case has sparked renewed concerns about […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. House Democrats on Friday subpoenaed the White House for documents they want to see as part of their impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump. The chairmen of three House of Representatives committees said they want documents related to a July 25 phone call between Trump […]
Predatory winger Cheslin Kolbe has underlined his status as one of rugby union’s hottest properties with another scintillating display in South Africa’s 49-3 drubbing of Italy. The result saw the Springboks, who round up their Pool B campaign against whipping boys Canada, edge ever closer to a place […]
Pope Francis will gather Catholic bishops at the Vatican Sunday to champion the isolated and poverty-struck indigenous communities of the Amazon, whose way of life is under threat. The eyes of the world have recently been on the world’s largest rainforest, which is vital for the planet but […]
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