Day: November 24, 2019

Pope in Nagasaki: No to atomic weapons, deterrence doctrine

10:20 am November 24, 2019

Nagasaki (Japan): Pope Francis demanded world leaders renounce nuclear weapons and the Cold War-era doctrine of mutual deterrence, saying Sunday the arms race decreases security, wastes resources and threatens humanity with catastrophic destruction. Francis made the appeal in Nagasaki at ground zero of the second of the two 1945 US atomic bombings on Japan. After […]

Mexicans hit streets to demand end to violence against women

10:13 am November 24, 2019

Ecatepec (Mexico): Four women walked barefoot on hot asphalt, clothed in shreds of organza in pastel shades of pink and yellow, the favourite colours of one of the many women murdered in Mexico. They performed a ceremony in honour of Briseida Carreo, a young woman who was killed a year ago in Ecatepec, a gritty […]

Iraqi officials: 2 protester dead amid ongoing clashes

10:09 am November 24, 2019

Baghdad: Iraqi security forces fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse crowds of protesters, killing two people in a third day of fierce clashes in central Baghdad, security and hospital officials said. Two protesters were struck with rubber bullets and died instantly and over 20 others were wounded in the fighting on Rasheed Street, […]

Chronology of events in Maharashtra case

Maha political drama: Ajit Pawar returns home

9:47 am November 24, 2019

Mumbai: NCP leader Ajit Pawar, who was on Saturday sworn in as the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, returned to his private residence near Churchgate here in the early hours of Sunday, sources said. He spent Saturday at his brother’s home in Mumbai even as his uncle and NCP chief Sharad Pawar attended a party […]

16-yr-old commits suicide in Kolkata

9:45 am November 24, 2019

Kolkata: A 16-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide by jumping into a pond in the Tollygunje area here, a Kolkata Police officer said on Saturday. People told police that she was seen walking around the pond at Ranikuthi and she jumped into it around 8 pm on Friday, the officer said. She was a student of […]