Day: February 21, 2020

Qatar says Saudi blocks official from Gulf virus summit

12:56 am February 21, 2020

Doha: Qatar accused Saudi Arabia on Thursday of barring its health minister from a summit of Gulf countries gathering to discuss the regional response to the new coronavirus epidemic. Qatar and Saudi are at loggerheads over Riyadh’s nearly three-year-long embargo of its small but rich Gulf neighbour, which it accuses of backing radical Islamists and […]

Trump ally gets 40 months prison amid meddling firestorm

12:47 am February 21, 2020

Washington: Donald Trump’s longtime ally Roger Stone was sentenced Thursday to 40 months in prison for impeding a congressional investigation, in a case that ignited a firestorm over the US president’s political interference in the justice system. Stone, a veteran Republican operative and one of Trump’s oldest confidants, was convicted in November of lying to […]

Two avalanches hit Kashmir; no loss of life reported

Two German tourists killed in Norway avalanche

12:43 am February 21, 2020

Oslo: Two German tourists were killed Thursday in an avalanche while on a snowmobile tour in Norway, authorities said. A helicopter carrying rescue personnel and a sniffer dog were dispatched to search for the missing pair, who were discovered dead in the Svalbard archipelago, about a thousand kilometres (miles) from the North Pole. “Two German […]

UK police rule out terror in London mosque stabbing

12:41 am February 21, 2020

London: British police on Thursday said they were not treating as terror related a London mosque stabbing in which an elderly man suffered non-life threatening injuries. The London ambulance service said the victim had been taken “to a major trauma centre” after the mid-afternoon attack. “A 29-year-old man, who is believed to have been attending […]

New twist to Gumnami Baba mystery!

12:29 am February 21, 2020

Kolkata: The mystery shrouding the identity of Gumnami Baba, who many claimed was Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in hiding, has deepened further with CFSL, Kolkata, saying the electropherogram of the reclusive sadhu’s teeth was not available with it. An electropherogram shows a sequence of data that is produced by an automated DNA sequencing machine and […]