Day: September 6, 2019

Amul says no plan to raise cow milk prices; Parag Milk to take call next week

11:34 pm September 6, 2019

New Delhi: Dairy major Amul will not increase the price of cow milk, while Parag Milk Foods will take a call on raising rates next week. On Thursday, leading milk supplier Mother Dairy increased price of cow milk by Rs 2 to Rs 44 a litre in Delhi-NCR, saying that it was paying more to […]

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First flood warning issued to Cauvery river districts

9:01 pm September 6, 2019

Coimbatore: With increase in the inflow of water into the Mettur dam in Salem district, authorities on Friday issued a flood warning to 12 districts of Tamil Nadu through which the Cauvery water courses. In its first flood warning, the public works department cautioned people living on the banks of the Cauvery and low lying […]

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Mental health concerns grow in Bahamas

Weakened Hurricane Dorian strands people on North Carolina island

8:58 pm September 6, 2019

Wilmington, North Carolina: Hurricane Dorian howled over North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Friday — a much weaker version of the brute that wreaked havoc in the Bahamas — flooding homes in the low-lying ribbon of islands and throwing a scare into year-round residents who chose to tough it out. Hundreds were feared trapped on one […]

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Li breaks silence over HK protests, backs withdrawal of extradition bill

8:58 pm September 6, 2019

Beijing: Premier Li Keqiang, China’s second highest-ranking leader backed Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s move to withdraw the controversial extradition bill, breaking his silence over the massive pro-democracy protests which challenged Beijing’s hold over the former British colony. The anti-government protests in Hong Kong over the bill which was aimed at extraditing locals to […]

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‘Pak Sikh girl not yet reunited with her family’

8:55 pm September 6, 2019

Lahore : The alleged abduction and conversion of a Sikh girl and her marriage to a Muslim man in Pakistan has taken a new twist with a top official of the Sikh community organisation clarifying on Friday that she is yet to be reunited with her family. The Secretary General of Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbhandhik […]

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