Day: June 13, 2019

Man drowns near Bandra Bandstand

10:21 pm June 13, 2019

Mumbai: A 29-year-old man drowned in the sea here Thursday afternoon, a fire brigade official said. Mitun Kumar Kariyar was spotted drowning near Bandra Bandstand, a popular tourist haunt in the western suburbs. A fire brigade team rescued him and brought him out to the shore but he was declared dead before admission at a […]

I don’t believe in looking over my shoulder: Katrina Kaif

10:19 pm June 13, 2019

Mumbai: Katrina Kaif was bombarded with questions about replacing Priyanka Chopra in “Bharat” but now that the film is a box office success, the actor says it is a great validation for her work. Katrina said she has always believed in doing her own thing rather than constantly looking over her shoulders to check what […]

UN rights chief says troubled by Hong Kong violence

China says UN rights chief ‘always’ welcome in Xinjiang

5:32 pm June 13, 2019

Geneva: China said Thursday that the UN human rights chief had an open invitation to visit Xinjiang, a region where some one million mostly Muslim minorities are held in internment camps. Beijing’s new ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Chen Xu, reiterated the government’s denial of the existence of camps there, insisting the region had “vocational education training”, especially for youth […]

Pompeo says China's policies on Muslims amount to 'genocide'

Doing business in India was “tough”: Pompeo on his Bengaluru days

5:28 pm June 13, 2019

Washington: Ahead of his visit to India, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has revealed that he had a “tough” time as a businessman in Chennai and Bengaluru while trying to sell machine parts for the aerospace industry in the country. Pompeo said this during his address to a Washington audience that included Google’s Indian-American CEO Sundar Pichai and top corporate executives from India and the US at the India Ideas Summit on Wednesday. Pompeo will […]

Kyrgyzstan awards top medal to President Xi Jinping

5:25 pm June 13, 2019

Bishkek: Chinese President Xi Jinping was on Thursday conferred with the highest national award of Kyrgyzstan, which is hosting the 19th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit. President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbay Jeenbekov awarded his Chinese counterpart (Xi Jinping) the Manas Order of the First Degree, the country’s highest national prize, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Xi, along with other leaders of the group including Indian Prime Minister […]