Day: July 31, 2019

Reagan made racist remarks in taped conversation with Nixon

10:44 pm July 31, 2019

Washington: Then-California governor Ronald Reagan made racist remarks about Africans, calling them “monkeys” in a newly-discovered taped conversation with US president Richard Nixon. The tape of the October 1971 phone call was unearthed by Tim Naftali, former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, and his findings were published online on Wednesday in The Atlantic […]

Class XII student of Kendriya Vidaylaya commits suicide in south Delhi

10:40 pm July 31, 2019

New Delhi: A class XII student of a central school allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself with a dupatta in her home in south Delhi’s Saket area, police said on Wednesday. On Tuesday, after returning from school, the 17-year-old student of Kendriya Vidyalaya, Sector 3, Pushp Vihar allegedly committed suicide when no one was at […]

Bhagwat on 5-day visit to Bihar from Feb 9

Mohan Bhagwat in Kolkata tomorrow

10:18 pm July 31, 2019

Kolkata: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will be in the city on Thursday and will meet RSS functionaries to discuss organisational issues. RSS sources said on Wednesday that Bhagwat will be in the city for a brief period on his way to Odisha from Jharkhand. The RSS, the ideological fountainhead of BJP, has made steady inroads […]

Compensation awarded to families of those killed in 2011 helicopter crash in Arunachal

VVIP choppers scam: I-T dept finds fresh evidence after raids on Hyd group

10:03 pm July 31, 2019

New Delhi: The Income Tax Department has unearthed fresh evidence in the VVIP choppers scam case after raiding a Hyderabad-based group which purportedly had dealings with Rajiv Saxena, who has been arrested in the case, the CBDT said on Wednesday. It said in a statement that tax sleuths searched the premises of a business group […]

Kerala youth killed in US drone attack in Afghanistan

10:01 pm July 31, 2019

Malappuram: A Kerala youth, suspected to have fled to Afghanistan in 2017 to join the Islamic State (IS), was killed in a US drone strike in that country, according to information received by his relatives here. A WhatsApp message received by the family of Muhammed Muhasin on Tuesday said that the youth, a resident of […]