Day: July 26, 2019

Arun favourite to retain his job, Bangar under scanner

3:11 pm July 26, 2019

Kolkata: India’s current bowling coach Bharat Arun is likely to retain his position even if there are multiple candidates while R Sridhar will have his nose ahead despite South African star Jonty Rhodes throwing his hat in the ring for the fielding coach’s position. But batting coach Sanjay Bangar might find it difficult to retain […]

France’s Macron invites British PM Johnson to visit

3:04 pm July 26, 2019

Paris: President Emmanuel Macron has invited new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to see him in France “in the next few weeks,” an official at the Elysee palace said. Macron extended the invitation in a call late Thursday to Johnson from his official summer vacation residence in the south of France. In the call, Macron […]

16 Marines arrested in migrant smuggling investigation

3:01 pm July 26, 2019

San Diego: An investigation into Marines accused of helping smuggle migrants into the United States led to the arrest Thursday of 16 of their fellow Marines at California’s Camp Pendleton, just north of the U.S.-Mexico border. In a dramatic move aimed at sending a message, authorities made the arrests as the Marines gathered in formation […]

Trial of Cambodian reporters who used to work for US begins

2:56 pm July 26, 2019

Phnom Penh: The espionage trial of two Cambodian journalists who formerly worked for a U.S. government-funded radio station began Friday, almost two years after their arrests. Uon Chhin and Yeang Sothearin appeared at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to defend themselves against the charge that they had undermined national security by supplying information to a […]

Indian-American adoptive father of Sherin Mathews begins life sentence

2:48 pm July 26, 2019

Houston: The Indian-American foster father of 3-year-old Sherin Mathews, sentenced to life in prison for the death of the toddler who was found dead in a culvert in 2017, has begun serving the jail term in Dallas. In a case that attracted much international attention, Wesley Mathews, 39, pleaded guilty on June 24 to a […]