Day: August 6, 2019

PM Modi to chair meeting of CSIR society on Friday

Passage of JK bill momentous occasion, new dawn awaits: Modi

10:25 pm August 6, 2019

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hailed the passage of bills on Jammu and Kashmir in Parliament as a “momentous occasion” in parliamentary democracy and said a new dawn awaits the state which is now free from the “shackles” of vested interest groups. “Together we are, together we shall rise and together we […]

Boris Johnson planning to put UK on obesity-busting diet: Report

UK calls for calm as British MPs divided over Article 370 revocation

10:21 pm August 6, 2019

London: The UK government on Tuesday said that it was monitoring the situation in Kashmir closely and called for calm as the country’s parliamentarians echoed some of the wider divisions over the India’s decision to revoke Article 370 and bifurcate the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The Indian government on Monday revoked Article 370 which […]

8chan founder hopes El Paso shooting ‘final nail in coffin’

10:18 pm August 6, 2019

Manila: The American creator of the 8chan website linked to deadly US mass shootings said Tuesday he hoped the El Paso carnage would be the “final nail in the coffin” for the forum, which he accused of harbouring “domestic terrorists”. Fredrick Brennan told AFP in an interview in Manila that he sometimes regretted setting up […]

Pentagon orders shutdown of Stars and Stripes newspaper

Beijing warns of ‘countermeasures’ over US missile plans

10:12 pm August 6, 2019

Beijing: China warned Tuesday it would take unspecified countermeasures if the United States goes ahead with plans to deploy ground-based intermediate-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region. The comments come days after US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Washington was now free to deploy the weapons following its withdrawal last week from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces […]

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dead at 88

10:09 pm August 6, 2019

New York: Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in “Beloved,” ‘Song of Solomon” and other works transformed American letters by dramatising the pursuit of freedom within the boundaries of race, has died at age 88. Publisher Alfred A Knopf announced that Morrison died Monday night at […]