Day: August 3, 2019

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

Three journalists slain in Mexico within a week

9:03 pm August 3, 2019

Mexico City: Two journalists were shot dead in Mexico Friday, bringing to three the number of journalists killed in the country this week, officials say. Jorge Celestino Ruiz, who worked for the newspaper El Grafico de Xalapa, was killed on Friday night in the violence-plagued state of Veracruz, the mayor of the state’s capital Paulino […]

Record number of 35 candidates in fray for Sri Lanka Presidential elections

Even Trump re-imposing capital punishment: Sirisena on his death penalty order

8:59 pm August 3, 2019

Colombo: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has highlighted the importance of imposing capital punishment to prevent crime, saying that even US President Donald Trump has reintroduced the death penalty to execute those convicted of rape and child abuse, according to a media report. Sirisena in June signed the death warrants to hang four drug convicts, […]

Eritrean wins asylum in Italy after mistaken trafficking charges

8:56 pm August 3, 2019

Rome: An Eritrean wrongly accused of being a human trafficking kingpin in a case of mistaken identity has been granted political asylum in Italy and set free, his lawyer told AFP on Saturday. Carpenter Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe was arrested in Sudan in 2016 on suspicion of being at the heart of one of the world’s […]

Blossom everywhere: This new campaign by protesters has crippled Hong Kong

Hong Kong protesters seize roads in defiance of China warnings

8:52 pm August 3, 2019

Hong Kong: Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong erected barricades in a popular tourist district and briefly blocked a major tunnel Saturday evening, defying increasingly stern warnings from China over weeks-long unrest that has plunged the city into criis. The semi-autonomous southern Chinese financial hub has seen two months of protests and clashes triggered by opposition […]

Heavy rains in Nashik, Godavari just below danger mark

8:49 pm August 3, 2019

Nashik: Heavy rains in Nashik in Maharashtra has brought the water level of Godavari river just below the danger mark, with Gangapur and Darna dams 87 and 88 per cent full respectively, an official said on Saturday. Water had to be released from Gangapur Dam into the Godavari river and people living along its banks […]