Month: October 2019

Maha: Four feared drowned during Durga idol immersion

Thane, Oct 10: Four people are feared to have drowned in a river during the immersion of a Durga idol in Maharashtra’s Thane district, police said on Thursday. The four men, all in their 20s, went along with a group to Kalu river in Titwala township on Wednesday night […]

Bengal BJP seeks Puja outreach report

Kolkata, Oct 10: The BJP leadership in West Bengal has sought reports from its district units and state level leaders on the party’s mass outreach programme especially on the contentious issues of the National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill during the Durga Puja festival. According to […]

Three killed as ambulance hits road divider

Hisar, Oct 10: Three persons, including a pregnant woman, were killed and two others injured when an ambulance carrying them rammed into a road divider near village Balak here, police said on Thursday. The deceased have been identified as driver Chain Singh, Ramrati and her mother Maya. Ramrati was […]

Wanted criminal killed in encounter in UP

Azamgarh (UP), Oct 10: A notorious criminal carrying a reward of Rs 1.5 lakh was killed in an encounter on Thursday, police said. Acting on a tip-off, a police team surrounded Lakshman Yadav in Narhumpur village in Mahrajganj area and in the ensuing exchange of fire, he and a […]

“Thieves have Modi surname” remarks: Rahul pleads not guilty

Surat, Oct 10: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday appeared before a magisterial court and pleaded not guilty in a criminal defamation case filed against him for his “why do all thieves share the Modi surname” remarks. Gandhi appeared before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate B H Kapadia […]

US Supreme Court to take on gay and transgender rights in the workplace

Does a US employer have the right to sack a worker because they are gay or transgender? That question, which has caused deep divisions within US society, will go before the Supreme Court on Tuesday at a time when the political scene has already reached fever pitch over […]

China blasts US blacklist over Xinjiang as ‘groundless’

China hit back at the United States on Tuesday over the blacklisting of 28 Chinese entities accused of being implicated in rights violations against mostly Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region, saying the claims are “groundless”. US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the move to bar the […]

Andy Murray to make Grand Slam return at Australian Open

Andy Murray will make his Grand Slam return at the Australian Open in January, a year after career-saving hip surgery, tournament organisers announced Tuesday. The British three-time major winner has been slowly working his way back to fitness and is now ranked 289th, up from 503rd just a […]

Cosmology trio win Nobel Physics Prize

Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz on Tuesday won the Nobel Physics Prize for research increasing our understanding of our place in the universe, the jury said. Peebles won one-half of the prize “for theoretical discoveries that have contributed to our understanding […]

Hong Kong ‘won’t rule out’ Chinese help over protests: leader

Hong Kong’s under-fire leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday said China intervening to end months of pro-democracy protests is an option following a particularly violent week of unrest that paralysed the city. The financial hub has been gripped by four months of rallies, and last weekend saw much of […]

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