Month: December 2019

Boeing gets FAA message, will halt Max production in January By TOM KRISHER today

The message to Boeing Co. from the Federal Aviation Administration was clear: The grounded 737 Max won’t get approval to fly again anytime soon. So the company had little choice but to idle the giant factory where the plane is made. Boeing announced Monday that it will suspend […]

Indian students decry police as citizenship protests grow

NEW DELHI — Indian student protests that turned into violent clashes with police galvanized nationwide opposition on Tuesday to a new law that provides a path to citizenship for non-Muslim migrants who entered the country illegally from several neighboring countries. Police fired tear gas in the Seelampur area […]

Boeing, suppliers slip as planemaker’s crisis deepens

Shares of Boeing Co (BA.N) and its main global suppliers fell on Tuesday after the U.S. planemaker said it would suspend production of its best-selling 737 MAX jet in January, its biggest assembly-line halt in more than two decades. The 737 MAX has been grounded since March after […]

Imran Khan says millions of Muslim refugees could flee India

GENEVA – Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Tuesday that millions of Muslims could flee India due to the curfew in the disputed territory of Kashmir and India’s new citizenship law, creating “a refugee crisis that would dwarf other crises”. Khan, addressing the Global Forum on Refugees […]

“Night of horrors”: Inside the Indian university stormed by police

NEW DELHI – As dusk fell on Sunday, police smashed their way into the main library of New Delhi’s Jamia Millia University, firing tear gas shells as scores of terrified students barricaded doors and hid inside bathrooms to protect themselves. Video footage shot by a student inside the […]

Clashes erupt in New Delhi over citizenship law; Modi rejects criticism

NEW DELHI – Clashes erupted in New Delhi on Tuesday between thousands of protesters and police, the latest violence in a week of opposition to a new law that makes it easier for non-Muslims from neighbouring countries to gain citizenship. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government says the new […]

Protests against CAA: SC asks petitioners to approach HC, declines to set up committee

New Delhi, Dec 17: The Supreme Court Tuesday declined to set up a committee of a retired apex court judge to inquire into the incidents of violent protests in different parts of the country against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and said that such panels may be appointed by […]

Ex-Pak dictator Gen. Musharraf sentenced to death for high treason

Islamabad, Dec 17: Pakistan’s former dictator Pervez Musharraf was on Tuesday sentenced to death in absentia in the high treason case for subverting the Constitution, becoming the first military ruler to receive the capital punishment in the country’s history. A three-member bench of the special court, headed by Peshawar […]

From Oxford to Harvard, universities abroad see protests against police crackdown in Jamia, AMU

New Delhi, Dec 17: The ripple effect of protests on campuses across the country reached top educational institutions in the world including Oxford, Harvard and Yale and MIT, where students and scholars staged demonstrations against the police crackdown on students of Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). […]

Citizenship law: Students, opposition leaders step up protests; SC rejects inquiry panel plea

New Delhi, Dec 17: Students, opposition leaders and activists across regions stepped up their protests against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act on Tuesday even as at least 29 persons were arrested for violent clashes over the last couple of days in Jamia Millia Islamia and parts of UP, while […]

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