Day: August 20, 2019

Pakistan will achieve all FATF targets in time: Qureshi

Pakistan to take Kashmir issue to ICJ: Qureshi

11:15 pm August 20, 2019

Islamabad: Pakistan on Tuesday said it will approach the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the Kashmir issue, weeks after India revoked the special status to Jammu and Kashmir. “An in-principle decision has been taken to take the issue of Kashmir to the International Court of Justice,” Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told ARY News TV. “The […]

Sunanda Pushkar was suffering from mental agony, Delhi Police tells court

11:14 pm August 20, 2019

New Delhi: Sunanda Pushkar, who was allegedly driven to commit suicide, was suffering from mental agony due to strained relationship with her husband and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor with whom she had a scuffle resulting in various injury marks few days before her death, the Delhi Police on Tuesday told a court here. Police accused […]

Toll from attack on Burkina military base rises to 24

10:54 pm August 20, 2019

Ouagadougou: The death toll from an attack Monday on a military base in northern Burkina Faso rose to 24, the military said, in an unprecedented blow to the army in its campaign against jihadist insurgents. Seven people were wounded and five others missing, armed forces headquarters said in a statement Tuesday. The previous toll from […]

CM visits rain ravaged areas of Uttarkashi, toll rises to 16

10:51 pm August 20, 2019

Dehradun: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat visited the rain-ravaged Mori block of Uttarkashi on Tuesday to take stock of relief and rescue operations, while the death toll in rain-related incidents in the district rose to 16. He announced a compensation of Rs 4 lakh to the next of kin of those killed in the […]

“Sea sparkle” species may be behind city coastline’s blue glow

8:25 pm August 20, 2019

Chennai: An eerie blue glow in and around the city’s coastline has ignited a buzz among denizens and netizens but the phenomenon may be nothing more than the blooming of a non-toxic marine species, commonly called “sea sparkle.” A scientist at the National Centre for Coastal Research here said samples were “being analysed,” to ascertain […]