Day: December 26, 2019

Conspiracy behind Dec 19 violence: C T Ravi

8:06 pm December 26, 2019

Mangaluru: A conspiracy to destabilise the BJP government in Karnataka was behind the violent protests against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) here on December 19, state Tourism and Kannada Culture Minister C T Ravi said Thursday. Addressing reporters here, he alleged that the nexus between Congress and Muslim outfits SDPI and PFI has become clearer now. […]

US expresses concern over religious freedom in India

Anti-CAA protests continue unabated in Assam

7:56 pm December 26, 2019

Guwahati: Protests against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 continued unabated across Assam on Thursday, primarily under the aegis of student bodies AASU and AJYCP, with agitators vowing not to relent till the law is scrapped. Opposition Congress, which has kickstarted an 800-km ‘padyatra’ from Sadiya in eastern Assam to Dhubri in the western end […]

Bomb threat by woman caller to airport in TN a hoax, say officials

Flight diverted after passenger suffers heart attack

7:46 pm December 26, 2019

Indore (MP): A Kolkata-Ahmedabad SpiceJet flight was diverted to Indore after a 67-year-old male passenger suffered a heart attack on board, an airport official said here on Thursday. The passenger was shifted to a government hospital here where he was declared dead. The flight was in the Indore airspace when the passenger suffered a heart […]

Rupee loses 4 paise to end at 71.31 vs US dollar

7:31 pm December 26, 2019

Mumbai: The rupee pared its early gains and settled lower by 4 paise at 71.31 against the US currency on Thursday amid heavy selling in domestic equities and steady rise in crude oil prices. Month-end dollar demand and weakness in domestic equities weighed on the domestic currency, forex traders said. At the interbank foreign exchange […]

Thai protest leader on hunger strike given IV drip in prison

Man gets 3 months for showing porn video to minor girl

7:27 pm December 26, 2019

Mumbai: A POCSO court here sentenced a 41-year-old man to three months imprisonment for showing a pornographic video to a minor girl. Special judge A D Deo last week found the accused Amarjit Kumar Kanojiya guilty of the offence committed under relevant provisions of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. The 12-year-old victim told […]