Day: August 21, 2019

Indian men’s hockey team hammers NZ 5-0 to win Olympic Test Event

1:40 pm August 21, 2019

Tokyo: The Indian men’s hockey team won the Olympic Test event here on Wednesday, beating New Zealand 5-0 to avenge the loss it endured in their round robin clash. Captain Harmanpreet Singh (7th minute) set the ball rolling before Shamsher Singh (18th minute), Nilakanta Sharma (22nd minute), Gursahibjit Singh (26th minute) and Mandeep Singh (27th […]

Terror hideout busted in J-K's Poonch; arms, ammo seized

LeT militant, policeman killed in Baramulla encounter

1:34 pm August 21, 2019

Srinagar: A Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) militant and a policeman were on Wednesday killed while a sub-inspector was injured in an encounter with ultras in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The encounter, which began on Tuesday, has ended with the killing of a militant and a special police officer (SPO) of Jammu and Kashmir […]

Budget for the rich, of the rich, by the rich: Chidambaram

Chidambaram files appeal in SC, says INX media scam”politically motivated”

1:17 pm August 21, 2019

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram has submitted in his petition in the Supreme Court that the high court’s observation that he was the “kingpin” in the INX Media case was completely baseless and that the FIR was “politically motivated and an act of vendetta”. The former union minister on Wednesday filed an appeal […]

‘Reform’: Saudi Arabia eases travel restrictions on women

4:20 am August 21, 2019

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday began implementing a landmark reform allowing women over the age of 21 to receive passports and travel abroad without permission from a male “guardian”, authorities said. The reform, announced earlier this month, weakens the restrictive guardianship system that has long been a symbol of repression against women. “The passport department […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

No evidence that India is running afoul of US sanctions: Official

4:07 am August 21, 2019

Washington: The United states has no evidence that India is running afoul of American sanctions on Iran, a top US diplomat said on Tuesday. We have no evidence that India is running afoul of US sanctions, Special US Representative to Iran, Brian Hook, told reporters at the Foreign Press Centre. Hook was responding to a […]