HONOLULU — Baba Ram Dass, the 1960s counterculture spiritual leader who experimented with LSD and traveled to India to find enlightenment, returning to share it with Americans, has died. He was 88. Dass’ foundation, Love Serve Remember, announced late Sunday that the author and spiritual leader died peacefully […]
NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party has lost a key state legislature election, a setback for the party as it faces massive anti-government protests against a contentious new citizenship law. According to results announced by India’s Election Commission late Monday, Modi’s Bharatiya Janata […]
BEIRUT — A missile struck a school building in northwestern Syria on Tuesday morning, killing eight civilians, opposition activists said, as government forces captured a key village held by al-Qaida insurgents in the war-torn country’s last rebel stronghold. Syrian government troops also surrounded a Turkish observation post in […]
PARIS — Notre Dame Cathedral is unable to host Christmas services for the first time since the French Revolution, because the Paris landmark was too deeply damaged by this year’s fire. So its exiled clergy, choir and congregation are celebrating the holiday in another Gothic church next to […]
Washington, Dec 24: The United States on Monday welcomed death sentences issued by Saudi Arabia against five people over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “Today’s verdicts were an important step in holding those responsible for this terrible crime accountable,” a State Department official told reporters after the ruling, […]
New Delhi, Dec 23: Swaraj Abhiyan chief Yogendra Yadav on Monday said the new citizenship law is based on religion which is against the Constitution. He was part of a discussion on the amended Citizenship Act and the NRC at the Faculty of Law in Delhi University. Yadav said […]
New Delhi, Dec 24: Delhi shivered with minimum temperature plummeting to 5.7 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, second lowest in December this year, which was two notches below the average. The minimum temperature on December 19 fell to 5.2 degrees Celsius. Moderate fog wrapped the city dropping visibility and delaying […]
Ranchi, Dec 24: JMM working president Hemant Soren was on Tuesday formally elected the JMM legislature party leader, a party source said here. Soren, who was projected as the chief ministerial candidate of the JMM-Congress-RJD alliance, is likely to stake claim tonight, a JMM release said. A joint meeting […]
New Delhi, Dec 24: A fire broke out in two factories in Narela here following a cylinder blast on Tuesday morning, a Delhi Fire Service official said. One of the factories manufactures shoes, while the other factory was of cardboard material, they said. A call was received about the […]
Ranchi, Dec 24: The Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) Tuesday extended support to pre-poll alliance of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal(RJD). The support by the JVM-P came after JMM legislature party leader Hemant Soren called on Marandi at his residence, a JVM-P press release said […]
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