Day: March 9, 2020

Two men arrested for smuggling gold worth Rs 26 lakh at Delhi airport

Coronavirus: Passengers from US, France, Spain to be segregated at airports

10:25 pm March 9, 2020

New Delhi: Passengers from 15 countries, including the US, France and Spain, will also be segregated from other passengers till the conveyor belt areas at airports, according to the AAI. Passengers from arriving from China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, Iran, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Hongkong, Vietnam, Nepal and Indonesia are already being segregated from other arriving […]

NYSE: Stocks turn choppy as investors weigh earnings, recovery

After brief trading halt, US stocks join global rout

10:15 pm March 9, 2020

New York: Wall Street stocks were decisively lower at mid-morning Monday as mounting worries over the coronavirus and sinking oil prices led to a temporary halt in trading. The suspension was triggered after the S&P 500’s losses hit seven per cent, with trading resuming after 15 minutes. About an hour into trading, the broad-based S&P […]

As global arms trade thrives, US widens gap with Russia: report

9:44 pm March 9, 2020

Stockholm: Worldwide major arms exports have increased on growing demand from countries in conflict, researchers in Sweden said Monday, with top exporter the United States widening its lead over Russia. Over the five years from 2015 to 2019, international arms exports grew by 5.5 per cent from the 2010-2014 period, according to a report by […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

Turkey jails Kurdish ex-mayor on terror conviction

9:33 pm March 9, 2020

Istanbul: A Turkish court on Monday sentenced the ex-mayor of a major Kurdish city to more than nine years in prison after convicting him of “membership in an armed terror group.” The Turkish authorities removed from their positions more than 20 mayors from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) last year over their alleged ties […]

NHRC bats for 'right to water' for citizens

SC takes notes of contaminated water supply in Shimla

9:29 pm March 9, 2020

New Delhi: Taking note that several diseases are spreading due to contaminated water supply in Shimla, the Supreme Court has directed the Himachal Pradesh government and the concerned civic body to submit a “concrete action plan” on improvement of quality of water supply. The apex court, which directed that quality of supply water in Shimla […]