Day: October 6, 2019

North Indian youth fatally stabbed by gang

3:56 pm October 6, 2019

Madurai: A north Indian youth was chased and stabbed to death by a gang in broad daylight near here on Sunday, police said. People in the area called the police, who came to the scene and took the body away. A machete and packets of ganja at the spot were seized, they said. The reason […]

Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi meet Bangladesh PM

3:54 pm October 6, 2019

New Delhi: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi met Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday and discussed issues concerning the two countries. Congress leader Anand Sharma and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were also present in the meeting that lasted around half-an-hour. After meeting Hasina, Priyanka Gandhi tweeted, “An […]

15-member NC delegation meets Farooq, Omar Abdullah

3:47 pm October 6, 2019

Srinagar: In the first major political development post withdrawal of special status to Jammu and Kashmir, a 15-member National Conference delegation on Sunday met detained party leaders Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah here. The delegation discussed developments in the state and upcoming local body polls during the separate meetings with the two leaders. The Jammu […]

EU presses UK to resubmit Brexit plan as end-game looms

3:42 pm October 6, 2019

Brussels: With the resumption of crunch Brexit talks on Monday looming large, European leaders piled pressure on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to revise his offer — and to do so quickly. On Saturday Johnson started phoning his EU counterparts to sell his proposals for a managed withdrawal from the bloc, after the latest plans […]

Trump calls for impeachment of his GOP Senator

3:40 pm October 6, 2019

Washington: US President Donald Trump has called for the impeachment of his bitter critic and Republican Senator Mitt Romney. Trump’s tweet in this regard came a day after Senator Romney, who during the 2016 presidential elections had called the president a “con artist” and criticised him for his handling of the Ukrainian issue. “I’m hearing […]