Day: August 3, 2020

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

ONGC gas pipeline bursts in Assam, no damage reported: Official

11:47 pm August 3, 2020

Guwahati: An underground gas pipeline at Assam‘s Geleky oilfield of energy major Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) ruptured on Monday, leading to leakage of gas in the entire area, a senior company official said. However, it immediately stopped supply of gas through the damaged pipeline and started repair work, which is likely to be competed by tonight, ONGC […]

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Pompeo says China's policies on Muslims amount to 'genocide'

House committees subpoena top Pompeo aides over IG firing

11:43 pm August 3, 2020

Washington: House Democrats have subpoenaed four top aides to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, saying that the Trump administration is stonewalling their investigation into the firing of the State Department’s top independent watchdog earlier this year. Former State Department Inspector General Steve Linick appeared for a closed-door interview in the probe in June and told investigators that top department officials tried to bully him […]

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Spain’s former king leaving country amid financial scandal

11:38 pm August 3, 2020

Madrid: Spain’s former monarch, King Juan Carlos I, says he is leaving Spain to live in another country amid a financial scandal. The royal family’s website on Monday published a letter from Juan Carlos to his son, King Felipe VI, saying “I am informing you of my considered decision to move, during this period, out of Spain.” Juan Carlos, […]

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Genoa has new bridge 2 years after span’s deadly collapse

11:35 pm August 3, 2020

Genoa: With a rainbow as a backdrop, Italy’s president and other dignitaries inaugurated a replacement bridge Monday in Genoa, but the families of those killed when the Morandi Bridge collapsed boycotted the event along with the firefighters who pulled many of the 43 dead from smashed cars and trucks. Two years ago this month, a stretch of the Morandi […]

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Delhi Police busts gang of ATM card-cloners, arrests two

11:26 pm August 3, 2020

New Delhi: The Delhi Police has busted a gang of ATM card-cloners with the arrest of two persons who used to target people at ATM booths on the pretext of helping them withdraw cash, police said Monday. They said Anil Kumar (26) and Vinod Kumar (39) have allegedly duped more than 100 people so far. They said the two came to […]

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