Day: February 9, 2020

MNS organises rally in Mumbai to support new citizenship law

MUMBAI – The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) held a rally in India’s financial capital Mumbai on Sunday to support a citizenship law introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year that has triggered nationwide protests. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which eases the path for non-Muslims from neighbouring […]

Kashmir hit by general strike called by separatists

SRINAGAR, India – Kashmir was hit by a general strike on Sunday called by the separatist Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) to mark the anniversary of the death of Afzal Guru who was executed for his part in an attack on India’s parliament in 2001. The JKLF on […]

Coronavirus scare: 6 under home quarantine in Mizoram

Aizawl, Feb 9: The Mizoram government has placed six students, who had recently returned from China, under home quarantine as a part of precautionary measures in the wake of coronavirus outbreak in the neighbouring country, officials said on Sunday. Blood samples of two among the six have been sent […]

Woman BJP leader shot dead by husband in Gurgaon

Chandigarh, Feb 9: A woman BJP leader from Gurgaon in Haryana was shot dead allegedly by her husband who suspected her of having an illicit relationship, a police official said on Sunday. The woman, state secretary of the BJP Kisan Morcha, was speaking to her sister over phone on […]

66 women rescued from dance bars in Bengaluru, 14 held

Bengaluru, Feb 9: The city police on Sunday claimed to have rescued 66 women, who were forced to dance with skimpy clothes in three bars here and 14 people were arrested in this connection. The raids were carried out by Central Crime Branch police following inputs about illegally operating […]

Civilian shot dead by militants in J-K’s Pulwama

Srinagar, Feb 9: Militants on Sunday shot dead a civilian in Tral area of Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Ghulam Nabi Mir (55), a contractor by profession, was shot at by militants outside his house at Tral Payeen around 7.30 pm, the officials said. Mir was […]

Two US troops killed by Afghan soldier in Nangarhar attack

Two American troops were killed and six others wounded by an Afghan soldier armed with a machine gun, the US military confirmed Sunday. The deaths come at a sensitive time in the 18-year-old war, with President Donald Trump eager to bring troops home and end the longest conflict […]

Iran says counting down to launch new satellite

Iran started counting down Sunday to the launch within hours of a scientific observation satellite that is part of a programme the United States has previously described as a “provocation”. Arch foes Iran and the United States have appeared to be on the brink of an all-out confrontation […]

Thai mall shooting survivors tracked killer via CCTV

In a fourth-floor toilet of the Terminal 21 mall, shoppers jammed cubicle doors against the entrance to keep out a Thai soldier on a shooting spree, tracing his movements through fragments of CCTV passed on by friends on the outside. Barricaded in the women’s toilet with a few […]

“Where it begins”: Young hungry locusts bulk up in Somalia

GAROWE, Somalia — At a glance, the desert locusts in this arid patch of northern Somalia look less ominous than the billion-member swarms infesting East Africa in the worst outbreak some places have seen in 70 years. But their time will come. Small and wingless, the hopping young locusts are […]

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