Day: June 21, 2020

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Officials: 5 hurt in early morning shooting in Texas capital

7:09 pm June 21, 2020

Austin: At least five people were wounded in an early morning shooting in Texas’ capital, officials said Sunday. Five adults with “serious, potentially life threatening injuries” were taken to local hospitals by Austin-Travis County EMS, the organization said in a tweet. The shooting took place around 3 a.m. in a commercial area of downtown Austin, […]

Spain opens border to tourists; Trump wants less testing

7:04 pm June 21, 2020

Barcelona: Spain reopened its borders to European tourists Sunday in a bid to kickstart its economy while Brazil and South Africa struggled with rising coronavirus infections. At a campaign rally, President Donald Trump said he told the US government to reduce testing for the virus, apparently to avoid unflattering statistics ahead of the US election in November. The head of the World […]

Serial killer convicted in 20th murder case

6:57 pm June 21, 2020

Mangaluru: A local court has convicted serial killer ‘Cyanide’ Mohan, holding him guilty in the rape and murder of a young woman from Kasaragod in Kerala in 2009. This is the 20th and last of the murder cases registered against the criminal, who has killed several women using cyanide after befriending and raping them. The […]

UK park stabbings that killed 3 declared terrorist attack

6:51 pm June 21, 2020

London: UK counter-terrorism officers on Sunday declared a stabbing rampage by a Libyan-origin man in a park in the English town of Reading that left three people dead as a terrorist attack. The local Thames Valley Police had initially launched a murder inquiry and said it was keeping an open mind on the motive behind the knife […]

Solar eclipse: No fair, only simple religious ceremony this time in Kurukshetra

5:32 pm June 21, 2020

Kurukshetra: A simple religious ceremony was held on the banks of the Brahma Sarovar here on Sunday as the administration had decided not to allow any fair this time on the occasion of solar eclipse amid the coronavirus pandemic. The holy city had been placed under curfew till 4 pm on Sunday to prevent people […]