Phnom Penh, Feb 13 (IANS) A cruise ship carrying thousands on board that had been denied entry into several countries over fears that its passengers were infected with a the deadly coronavirus, docked in Cambodia on Thursday, 13 days after setting sail. The Westerdam, which departed on February 1 from[Read More…]
Houston, Feb 13 (IANS) The suspect accused of killing 22 people in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, last year, has pleaded “not guilty” to 90 charges, among them hate crimes and murder. On Wednesday, Patrick Crusius, 21, appeared before magistrate judge Miguel Torres in the[Read More…]
Hamilton, Feb 13 (IANS) Team India skipper Virat Kohli, who also leads Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the Indian Premier League (RCB), has been left shocked after the franchise removed their profile picture and posts from various social media accounts. Kohli, who is currently leading the national side in New[Read More…]
Panaji, Feb 13 (IANS) Goa’s style doyen Wendell Rodricks, who breathed his last on Wednesday, was known to sashay through the green rooms of top-billed fashion shows in Indian metros and global fashion capitals, as easily as he dug into grassroots activism in his native state. Raised in Mumbai, Rodricks[Read More…]
By Deepak Sharma and Sanjeev Kumar Singh Chauhan New Delhi, Feb 13 ( IANS) Several Indian cricket stars of yesteryears could be in trouble as Delhi Police extradites Sanjeev Chawla, the alleged mastermind of match-fixing case involving former South African captain late Hansie Cronje, from London on Thursday. Chawla, a[Read More…]
Srinagar, Feb 13 (IANS) The 2G mobile Internet services have been suspended in Kashmir again since Wednesday evening. The Internet was suspended last week for a few hours on the death anniversary of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and JKLF leader Maqbool Bhat. The Jammu and Kashmir authorities restored the[Read More…]
Mexico City, Feb 13 (IANS) Immigration across the US-Mexico border dipped to 74.5 per cent from May 2019 to January 2020, in the wake of a bilateral agreement to curb migrant flows, Mexico’s Foreign Affairs Minister Marcelo Ebrard said here. In January, the number of migrants crossing the border came[Read More…]
East London (South Africa), Feb 13 (IANS) Right-arm pacer Lungi Ngidi bowled a brilliant final over to help South Africa clinch an exciting one-run win over England in a nail-biting opening T20I. Chasing 178, England fell short by just one run as they could manage 176/9 in their stipulated quota[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) The much-awaited Samsung Galaxy S20 series will be available for pre-order in India from the Valentine’s Day and the price is likely to begin from under Rs 70,000 for the Galaxy S20 device and hit the six-digit mark for the top-end Galaxy S20 Ultra that[Read More…]
London, Feb 13 (IANS) The Bell Inn in the English village of Aldworth, Berkshire, which has been run by the same family for 250 years, was named the UK’s Pub of the Year for a second time. The only pub in the county of Berkshire with an official Grade-II listed[Read More…]
Pratapgarh (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 13 (IANS) The father and two uncles of a 23-year-old woman have been arrested in Pratapgarh for allegedly beating her to death in May last year. The father and uncles claimed that the woman Preeti had gone missing. The murder of Preeti Verma came to light[Read More…]
Varanasi, Feb 13 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate the newly-built Vaidik Vigyan Kendra or the Centre for Vedic Sciences at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), during his visit to his parliamentary constituency on Sunday. The Centre has been set up to explore Vedic corpus for knowledge, related[Read More…]
Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 13 (IANS) Four prisoners, serving sentences for separate cases, died in two Bareilly jails within 72 hours. The jail authorities said that the deaths were due to ‘age-related ailments’. The bodies of the prisoners were handed over to the families after the post-mortem. One of the[Read More…]
Wuhan, Feb 13 (IANS) Approved by Chinese President Xi Jinping, 2,600 additional military medical personnel will be tasked with treating patients in two hospitals in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak. They will follow the operation model of Huoshenshan Hospital and be tasked with treating confirmed patients of[Read More…]
Kanpur, Feb 13 (IANS) In a shocking incident, a woman from Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur district, has accused her son of attempting to rape her minor daughter. The incident came to light on Wednesday after the woman approached the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) and filed a complaint of attempt to rape[Read More…]
Islamabad, Feb 13 (IANS) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is slated to arrive in Pakistan on Thursday on a two-day official visit, which officials and observers believe, hold great significance against the backdrop of regional and international developments. Erdogan is leading a high-powered delegation comprising cabinet ministers, senior government officials,[Read More…]
Asuncion (Paraguay), Feb 13 (IANS) South American referees could officiate at Euro 2020 under a deal that has been struck between European football governing body UEFA and its counterpart CONMEBOL. The “enhanced collaboration” pact could also see European match officials taking charge of Copa Libertadores fixtures, the regional confederations said[Read More…]
Bilbao, Feb 13 (IANS) Athletic Club defeated Granada 1-0 in the first leg of their Copa de Rey semifinal. However, the victory margin understated the dominance of the home side in front of more than 49,000 at San Mames stadium on Wednesday evening. And Athletic’s inability to translate their evident[Read More…]
Islamabad, Feb 13 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has directed the Foreign Office (FO) to take every possible step to help Pakistani students stuck in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak. Taking to Twitter on Wednesday, Khan said: “I have issued instructions to[Read More…]
Islamabad, Feb 13 (IANS) The Pakistan government has approved a set of rules to regulate social media in the country, under which companies will be obliged to disclose any information or data to a designated investigation agency, when sought, and failure to abide by any of the provision will entail[Read More…]
Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 13 (IANS) A groom, who married a girl of his choice, went missing from a wayside eatery where the “baraat” had stopped on its way back from the wedding in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district. He was later found hanging from a tree, about two kilometers away,[Read More…]
Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh) , Feb 13 (IANS) A local court in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district has sought the recovery of Rs 23.41 lakh from 53 anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protesters. An Additional District Magistrate (ADM) court, on Wednesday, cited the ‘widespread damage to public property’ during the anti-CAA stir in[Read More…]
Nashville, Feb 13 (IANS) Imagine going to the office flying at a speed of 50 kms per hour. No traffic woes, no parking headache and the journey is all electric. No, we are not talking about Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his eccentric yet game-changing ideas for the future of[Read More…]
By Aarti Tikoo Singh New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) India on Thursday expressed scepticism over the efficacy of the conviction of Hafiz Saeed, the founder and patron of the banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), by a Pakistani court ahead of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plenary meeting. A Lahore[Read More…]
Geneva, Feb 13 (IANS) The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that it is “way too early” to predict the end of the coronavirus epidemic despite an apparent slowdown in the number of new cases in China. “This outbreak could still go in any direction,” WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said,[Read More…]
