Day: December 21, 2019

Man tells of using narwhal tusk to disrupt UK terror attack

11:27 pm December 21, 2019

London: A man who used a narwhal tusk to tackle a knife-wielding attacker in London last month described on Saturday his “deep hurt” at not being able to save the two people killed. Darryn Frost, a civil servant originally from South Africa, spoke out for the first time about the attack by Usman Khan on […]

30-plus years of ‘Garfield’ comic strips to sell at auction

11:25 pm December 21, 2019

Dallas (US): Cartoonist Jim Davis is offering up more than 11,000 “Garfield” comic strips hand-drawn on paper in an auction that will stretch into the coming years, with at least a couple of strips featuring the always-hungry orange cat with a sardonic sense of humor available weekly. “There are just so many, and it was […]

Macron says French forces ‘neutralise’ over 30 jihadists in Mali op

11:21 pm December 21, 2019

Abidjan: President Emmanuel Macron said French forces had “neutralised” several dozen jihadists in Mali on Saturday, as he visited West Africa with a pledge to give new force to the battle against Islamist militants in the region. The operation in the flashpoint city of Mopti in central Mali came just weeks after 13 French soldiers […]

Anti-CAA protests singe UP: 16 killed, 263 cops injured

11:16 pm December 21, 2019

Lucknow: A police post was torched in Kanpur on Saturday amid fresh incidents of protests against Citizenship (Amendment) Act in Uttar Pradesh’s several districts including in Rampur and Aligarh as the toll in the violence in the last two days rose to 16. The latest death was reported from Rampur on Saturday evening, where one […]

Delhi man stabs himself with knife after argument with family

Unidentified man found killed in Gadchiroli district

10:54 pm December 21, 2019

Mumbai: A 35-year-old man was found murdered with his throat slit in naxal-affected Gadchiroli district in east Maharashtra, police said on Saturday. The unidentified body was found lying along the roadside between Jhuri and Kotmi villages on Friday, a local police official said. Police suspect the involvement of naxals in the crime. The official said […]

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