Day: December 20, 2019

Mahila Congress protests outside Amit Shah’s residence against CAA

9:25 pm December 20, 2019

New Delhi: Scores of women Congress workers led by president of the Delhi Pradesh Mahila Congress (DPMC) staged demonstration outside the residence of the Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday in protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The women Congress demonstrators shouted slogans against the BJP government at the Centre. Others who were part […]

Jamia Teachers Association take out peace march

Had to cut short field trip after villagers asked us to leave: Jamia students

9:16 pm December 20, 2019

New Delhi: A group of Jamia university students on Friday claimed they had to cut short their field trip to Haryana’s Panipat district after some villagers asked them to “leave or face the consequences”. However, Panipat’s Superintendent of Police Sumit Kumar denied any such incident and said the students did not complain about anything during […]

Flight operations restored in Kashmir after remaining affected due to bad weather

Dense fog in Delhi delays over 100 trains, 10 flights; air quality in ‘severe’ category

1:39 pm December 20, 2019

New Delhi: Rail and air traffic was affected as visibility dipped considerably due to dense fog that enveloped Delhi on Friday morning with the minimum temperature settling at 6.4 degrees Celsius. Relative humidity was at 95 per cent, at 8.30 am. Due to low temperature and high humidity, the air quality was in the “severe” […]

Trump picks Indian-American computer scientist to lead National Science Foundation

1:23 pm December 20, 2019

Washington: US President Donald Trump has picked Indian-American computer scientist Sethuraman Panchanathan to lead the prestigious National Science Foundation. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a US government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “Dr […]

Curfew relaxed for 16 hours in Shillong

1:13 pm December 20, 2019

Shillong: Curfew was on Friday relaxed for 16 hours in Shillong, as the city limped back to normalcy after week-long protests and stray incidents of vandalisation of public property over the amended citizenship law, an official said. With the Assembly adopting a resolution on Thursday to urge the Centre for Inner Line Permit regime — […]