A speeding train ran over revellers watching fireworks during a Hindu festival in northern India Friday, killing more than 50 people, with eyewitnesses saying they were given no warning before disaster struck. The crowd had gathered on railway tracks in the city of Amritsar in Punjab state to […]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sued the Ecuador government on Friday for violating his “fundamental rights” and limiting his access to the outside world while in asylum at its London embassy. The 47-year-old Australian’s legal action comes with speculation mounting that Ecuador is preparing to end its standoff with […]
NEW YORK – Melissa Madara was not surprised to receive death threats on Friday as her Brooklyn witchcraft store prepared to host a public hexing of newly confirmed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh this weekend. The planned casting of an anti-Kavanaugh spell, one of the more striking […]
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C.— A judge declined Monday to punish a black University of North Carolina graduate student who admitted to pouring red ink and her own blood on a Confederate statue in a headline-grabbing protest that preceded the statue’s toppling months later. After a day of impassioned testimony, Orange […]
NEW DELHI — A speeding train ran over a crowd watching fireworks during a religious festival in northern India on Friday evening, killing at least 60 people and injuring dozens more, police said. The train failed to stop after the accident on the outskirts of Amritsar, a city […]
ISTANBUL — Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in a “fistfight” in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, the kingdom claimed early Saturday, finally admitting that the writer had been slain at its diplomatic post. Authorities said 18 Saudi suspects were in custody and intelligence officials had been fired. The […]
Amritsar, Oct 20: Punjab Police commandos and Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel have been deployed at the site of a train accident, which claimed 61 lives, to manage a huge crowd on Saturday. A heavy police deployment has been made to keep the situation in order. Punjab Chief Minister […]
LYON, France — The wife of the former Interpol president who is being detained in China on bribery charges says she’s been contacted by Chinese diplomats, who have told her they’re holding a letter from him for her. Grace Meng says, however, that she’ll only agree to meet […]
NEW DELHI- Dozens are feared dead after a train ran over people in Punjab’s Amritsar on Friday, TV channels reported. Times Now said they failed to hear the sound of the approaching train as it got drowned out by the noise of firecrackers being let off for Dussehra. […]
open view web desk SRINAGAR, OCTOBER 19: Setting the tone for major reforms, Principal Secretary Finance, Navin K Chaudhary asked the Jammu andKashmir State Forest Corporation (JKSFC) to do away with the archaic ‘zoning system’ for determining the rate of timber. The Finance Secretary made these remarks while […]
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