Day: January 28, 2020

Gopinathan claims even some ‘RSS people’ opposed to CAA

7:48 pm January 28, 2020

Panaji: Bureaucrat-turned-activist Kannan Gopinathan on Tuesday said even some “RSS people” are convinced the Citizenship Amendment Act is a bad law but are keeping quiet as the NDA government at the Centre is their own baby. Speaking in Panaji, he further said the Narendra Modi government was behaving like a “drunken teenager” which needs to […]

Chinese students fleeing virus face uneasy reception back home

Anxious wait for parents of students in Wuhan

7:42 pm January 28, 2020

Thiruvananthapuram: With the situation in Wuhan, the centre of the new corona virus outbreak, continuing to worsen, parents of Kerala students in the Chinese province are keeping their fingers crossed, hoping that their children would reach home as early as possible. S Vijaykumar, whose daughter Akhila Jasmine is a fourth year student at Wuhan university, […]

Mamata wields paintbrush to protest against CAA, NRC

7:39 pm January 28, 2020

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, along with other artists, took up the brush on Tuesday and created paintings to express dissent against the amended Citizenship Act and proposed NRC exercise. The CM, on the occasion, urged people to carry out peaceful protests against the citizenship law and iterated that she would never allow […]

Netanyahu's prospects bolstered amid Israel-Hamas fighting

Netanyahu withdraws immunity from prosecution request

7:35 pm January 28, 2020

Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday announced that he was withdrawing his request for parliamentary immunity in the three graft cases against him to stop the “dirty game” over the issue, paving the way for legal proceedings against him to go forward. The Israeli leader made his decision public through a Facebook Post […]

Bangladesh allows education for Rohingya refugee children

7:32 pm January 28, 2020

Dhaka: Rohingya children living in Bangladesh refugee camps will be allowed to receive a formal education after a change of heart by Dhaka in a move welcomed by right activists. Nearly one million Rohingya, including more than half a million children, live in the squalid and crowded camps near the southeastern border with Myanmar, where […]