Day: June 1, 2020

Hong Kong blocks Tiananmen vigil; rush on for UK passports

8:30 pm June 1, 2020

Hong Kong: Hong Kong police rejected an application Monday for an annual candlelight vigil marking the anniversary this week of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, as residents rushed to apply for passports that could allow them to move to the United Kingdom. Throngs of people lined up at DHL courier outlets across the city, many […]

Thousands demonstrate against racism in Auckland

8:24 pm June 1, 2020

Auckland: Several thousand people marched Monday in New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland, to protest George Floyd’s death and show solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The protesters marched from Aotea Square to the US consulate, where they kneeled. They held banners with slogans such as I can’t breathe and The Real Virus is Racism. […]

Mumbai experiences cloudy sky, light showers

4:37 pm June 1, 2020

Mumbai: Mumbaikars and people in neighbouring areas woke up to cloudy weather and light rain on Monday morning following the formation of a low pressure area in the Arabian Sea. The depression in the Arabian Sea is likely to intensify into a severe cyclone and cross the north Maharashtra and south Gujarat coasts on June […]

Music composer Wajid Khan laid to rest

4:33 pm June 1, 2020

Mumbai: Music composer Wajid Khan was laid to rest at Versova cemetery with close friends and family members in attendance. Wajid, one half of the composer duo Sajid-Wajid, died in wee hours of Monday in a city hospital due to coronavirus. The 42-year-old musician had underlying kidney issues. “He died of a cardiac arrest,” Wajid’s […]

ASI assaulted in Rajasthan's Chittorgarh

Gang running fake website to dupe people busted in Delhi

4:26 pm June 1, 2020

New Delhi: Four people have been arrested for allegedly duping over 4,000 people by promising them jobs under the Centre’s flagship Ayushman Bharat scheme, officials said on Monday. The accused had created a fake website that resembled a government site and placed advertisement for thousands of jobs. They charged aspirants Rs 300 to Rs 500 […]