Day: January 20, 2020

Chinese students fleeing virus face uneasy reception back home

Human-to-human transmission confirmed in China coronavirus

9:43 pm January 20, 2020

Beijing: The head of a Chinese government expert team said Monday that human-to-human transmission has been confirmed in an outbreak of a new coronavirus. Team leader Zhong Nanshan, a respiratory expert, said two people in Guangdong province in southern China caught the disease from family members, state media said. The National Health Commission task force […]

Need robust global cooperation to fight cross-border tax evasion, avoidance: FM

Taking earnest attempt to decriminalise Companies Law: FM

9:38 pm January 20, 2020

Chennai: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said the government’s earnest attempt was to decriminalise everything that has to do with Companies Law or related acts as part of initiatives towards a USD 5 trillion economy. She said the government does not want a law that could treat every business house with suspicion. Delivering the Nani […]

Students clash in Bengal’s Dinhata, one injured

9:36 pm January 20, 2020

Kolkata: Two groups of students clashed near Dinhata College in West Bengal’s Coochbehar district on Monday, leaving one of them injured, police said. The Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) alleged that “rowdies patronised by the BJP” attacked its activists near the college gate, leaving one student injured while RSS- affiliate ABVP dismissed the charges and […]

Prosecutors seek prison terms for accused in gold coin heist

9:36 pm January 20, 2020

Berlin: German prosecutors are seeking lengthy prison terms for four men accused of staging the brazen theft of a 100-kilogram (221-pound) Canadian gold coin that disappeared from a Berlin museum almost three years ago. The dpa news agency reported Monday that prosecutors have asked Berlin’s region court to sentence two of the men to […]

Rajasthan: Man kills wife over suspicion of illicit relationship

9:29 pm January 20, 2020

Jaipur: A man was arrested after he allegedly killed his 22-year-old wife suspecting illicit relationship in the Amber Fort area here on Monday, police said. Police said Ayaz Ahmed had suspicion over his wife Reshma Manglani’s fidelity following which he conspired to kill her. The accused took her to his flat in Kalawad area here, […]