Day: January 16, 2020

Watchdog: White House violated law in freezing Ukraine aid

WASHINGTON — The White House violated federal law in withholding security assistance to Ukraine, an action at the center of President Donald Trump’s impeachment, a federal watchdog agency said Thursday. T he Government Accountability Office said in a report that the Office of Management and Budget violated the law in […]

Supreme Court rejects telecom firms’ plea for relief on government dues

NEW DELHI – India’s top court on Thursday rejected petitions by mobile operators including Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea seeking a review of its order late last year that they must pay the bulk of nearly $13 billion in dues to government. The Supreme Court in October 2019 […]

Musharraf approaches Pak SC to suspend death sentence ruling by special court in high treason case

Islamabad, Jan 16: Pakistan’s self-exiled former dictator Pervez Musharraf on Thursday approached the Supreme Court to challenge the ruling of a special court that had handed him death sentence on charges of high treason. The special court in Islamabad on December 17 last handed down the death penalty to […]

Bulls awe tamers, jallikattu events in TN continue to be crowd-pullers

Madurai, Jan 16: Jallikattu, the popular bull taming sport of Tamil Nadu lived up to its reputation of being a huge crowd-puller as the contest unfolded on Thursday at Palamedu here and Suriyur in Tiruchirappalli district. As thousands of spectators continued to flock both the events, the tamers were […]

Eye on 2021 WB assembly polls, BJP re-elects Dilip Ghosh as state chief

Kolkata, Jan 16: With an eye on the 2021 assembly polls the BJP on Thursday re-elected Dilip Ghosh, who is credited for the growth of the saffron party in West Bengal, as president of its state unit for the second consecutive term. Ghosh being the only nominee for the […]

Guj: Cop held for killing man in accidental firing

Ahmedabad, Jan 16: A police sub-inspector was arrested on Thursday for allegedly shooting a man dead in an accidental firing at a police outpost in Gujarat’s Rajkot district, an official said. Sub-inspector P P Chavda was arrested for culpable homicide not amounting to murder after he shot dead […]

Ex-IPS officer gets 5 years in jail in MP job scam

Bhopal, Jan 16: A local court on Thursday sentenced former IPS officer Rajendra Chaturvedi to five years in prison for taking bribes for recruitment of jail wardens in Madhya Pradesh. Chaturvedi was additional director general (prisons) at the time of the recruitment scam. Special Judge Sanjeev Pandey, who convicted […]

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