Month: October 2021

COVID-19 UPDATE

DELHI, OCT 17: 97.65 Cr. vaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive 14,146 new cases in the last 24 hours; lowest in 229 days Recovery Rate currently at 98.10%; Highest since March 2020 19,788 recoveries in the last 24 hours increases Total Recoveries to […]

Mere delay in recording eyewitness statement can’t result in rejection of their testimonies, says SC

New Delhi, Oct 16 : Mere delay in recording the statements of eyewitnesses cannot result in rejection of their testimonies, the Supreme Court has said while dismissing an appeal by four people challenging their conviction in a murder case. A bench headed by Justice U U Lalit said […]

BJP needs yogya government not Yogi government: Akhilesh

Lucknow, Oct 17: Samajwadi Party president and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav Sunday attacked the BJP dispensation, saying the state needs a ‘yogya’ (competent) government and not a Yogi government. Speaking to reporters at the party’s headquarters here, he further alleged the BJP “has no work to […]

Gambian Toufah Jallow tells of surviving rape by dictator

DAKAR, Senegal — Toufah Jallow’s name resonates deeply in Gambia as one of the few women who has taken a public stand against sexual assault in the small West African state. She gained fame at the age of 18 when she won a university scholarship in a national […]

ASEAN downgrades Myanmar presence in summit in major rebuke

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Southeast Asian foreign ministers have agreed to downgrade Myanmar’s participation in an upcoming summit in their sharpest rebuke yet of its leaders following a Feb. 1 military takeover. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations will invite a non-political representative instead of Myanmar’s military leader, […]

Taiwan tensions raise fears of US-China conflict in Asia

BANGKOK — After sending a record number of military aircraft to harass Taiwan over China’s National Day holiday, Beijing has toned down the saber rattling but tensions remain high, with the rhetoric and reasoning behind the exercises unchanged. Experts agree a direct conflict is unlikely at the moment, […]

VISIT OF ADMIRAL MICHAEL GILDAY, CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS, US NAVY, TO HQWNC ON 15 OCT 21

DELHI, OCT 16: Admiral Michael Gilday, Chief of Naval Operations, US Navy, accompanied by Mrs. Linda Gilday and a high-level US delegation, visited Headquarters, Western Naval Command (HQWNC) at Mumbai on 15 Oct 21 and interacted with Vice Admiral R Hari Kumar, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC, Flag Officer […]

COVID-19 UPDATE

DELHI, OCT 16: 97.23 Cr. vaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive 15,981 new cases in the last 24 hours; less than 20,000 cases for past 8 days Recovery Rate currently at 98.08%; Highest since March 2020 17,861 recoveries in the last 24 hours […]

New crew docks at China’s first permanent space station

BEIJING — Chinese astronauts began Saturday their six-month mission on China’s first permanent space station, after successfully docking aboard their spacecraft. The astronauts, two men and a woman, were seen floating around the module before speaking via a live-streamed video. The new crew includes Wang Yaping, 41, who […]

Indian police probe murder at farmers’ protest site, detain suspect

Mumbai, Oct 16 – Police investigating the killing of a Sikh man at the site of an ongoing farmers’ protest in New Delhi said on Saturday they had arrested a suspect from a Sikh warrior sect, after the mutilated body was found strung up on a police barricade. […]

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