Day: July 17, 2019

I'm sure global pharma industry will support India's WTO proposal of IP waiver for COVID-19: Goyal

189 new rail lines under construction: govt

2:59 pm July 17, 2019

New Delhi: As many as 189 new railway lines costing Rs 3.74 lakh crore are in different stages of construction across the country, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said in Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Goyal said railway projects are sanctioned zone-wise and the expenditure on new line projects up to March, 2019 has been Rs 76,917 […]

Delhi court allows Robert Vadra to travel abroad

Robert Vadra seeks more time in Delhi HC to reply to ED’s plea against anticipatory bail

2:57 pm July 17, 2019

New Delhi: Robert Vadra Tuesday sought more time in the Delhi High Court to file his response to the Enforcement Directorate’s plea challenging his anticipatory bail in a money laundering case. Justice Chander Shekhar granted two weeks’ time to Vadra, brother-in-law of Rahul Gandhi, to file his reply to the plea seeking cancellation of anticipatory […]

Aus calls on China to let Uighur mother and son leave

2:55 pm July 17, 2019

Sydney: Australia’s government on Wednesday called on China to allow an Australian child and his Uighur mother to leave the country, stepping up pressure on Beijing days after Canberra co-signed a letter denouncing its treatment of the Muslim minority. China has rounded up an estimated one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim Turkic-speaking minorities into […]

Will Trump's mishandling of records leave a hole in history?

US mulls increasing merit-based immigration to 57%

2:51 pm July 17, 2019

Washington: The Trump administration is proposing a nearly five-fold increase in merit-based legal immigration and half those based on family and humanitarian system, in an effort to overhaul the outdated system. Senior presidential adviser Jared Kushner, who is also the son-in-law of United States President Donald Trump, said having an immigration policy that would attract […]

US House votes to condemn Trump over his ‘racist’ tweet against four Congresswomen

2:48 pm July 17, 2019

Washington: The US House of Representatives has voted a resolution to condemn President Donald Trump’s alleged “racist” tweets against four Democratic congresswomen who have been critical of his harsh immigration policies. Trump, on Sunday, in a series of tweets, said that four Democratic Progressive Congresswomen should just “go back” to where they came from. The […]