SINGAPORE – Thousands of skywatchers gathered across parts of the Middle East and Asia on Thursday to glimpse the sun forming a ring of fire around the moon in a rare annular solar eclipse. RELATED COVERAGE Egg-standing test goes viral as ring-of-fire eclipse crosses Asia An annular eclipse […]
SINGAPORE – Singapore police are investigating an Indian national for allegedly being involved in a public protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s controversial citizenship law. Unauthorised public assemblies and protests over political situations in other countries are banned in Singapore. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to […]
MUMBAI – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government did not anticipate the protests against a new citizenship law that have raged across the country and is now scrambling to control the damage, members of his ruling party said. In Modi’s biggest challenge since taking office in 2014, hundreds of […]
LUCKNOW, India – India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state is demanding millions of rupees from over 200 people and threatening to confiscate their property as a penalty for damage done to public property during protests against the country’s new citizenship law. Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, has suffered […]
Mumbai, Dec 26: Benchmark indices nursed losses for the third straight session on Thursday, led by selling in market heavyweights Reliance Industries and HDFC Bank amid expiry of December derivatives contracts. After tumbling 328.37 points during the day, the 30-share BSE Sensex ended 297.50 points, or 0.72 per cent, […]
Bengaluru, Dec 26: Four children were buried neck- deep in the mud in a village in Kalaburagi district on Thursday as part of a superstitious belief to cure their disabilities on the day of eclipse. As most parts of the country witnessed the annular solar eclipse, the children […]
Guwahati, Dec 26: A special NIA court here Thursday remanded peasant leader Akhil Gogoi, who had been arrested by the agency, to judicial custody for 14 days. The special court also turned down NIA’s plea to extend his custody for 10 days. He was arrested by the National Investigation […]
Lucknow, Dec 26: Alleging that the BJP government was afraid of Hindu-Muslim unity, Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday sought to know when a probe into “police brutality” during widespread protest in the state against Citizenship Amendment Act will be ordered. “The government is afraid of Hindu-Muslim unity. […]
Kolkata, Dec 26: Asserting that peaceful protests will continue as long as the new citizenship law is not withdrawn, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday warned the BJP against “playing with fire”. Speaking at a protest rally in the city, the Trinamool Congress supremo accused the […]
The action was spectacular, exciting and colourful for 12 months around the globe, but the thrilling and sometimes surprising images also caught the wider significance of modern sport. Megan Rapinoe Megan Rapinoe lapped up the rapturous reception when the US women’s football team appeared in New York on […]
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