Day: August 17, 2020

TMC govt playing with emotions of Hindus: Adityanath

UP CM gives nod to set up property damage claim tribunals in Meerut, Lucknow

11:59 pm August 17, 2020

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday gave an approval to set up property damage claim tribunals in Meerut and Lucknow, an official spokesperson said While the Lucknow tribunal will accept claim applications from Jhansi, Kanpur, Chitrakoot Dham, Lucknow, Ayodhya, Devi Patan Prayagraj, Azamgarh, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Basti and Vindhyachal Dham divisions, the Meerut tribunal will have the jurisdiction […]

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

Visva Bharati University closes after trouble over boundary wall

11:56 pm August 17, 2020

Kolkata: The heritage Visva Bharati University was on Monday shut down indefinitely following violent protests against the varsity’s decision to construct a boundary wall around the venue of Poush Mela, a prestigious annual cultural event started more than a century ago. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee came out against the fencing, while Governor Jagdeep Dhankar expressed concern over the situation. Trouble erupted at […]

Pandit Jasraj: Indian classical music’s greatest voice falls silent

11:51 pm August 17, 2020

New Delhi: Mozart, Beethoven, Pavarotti and Jasraj are up there in the skies somewhere, planets all in a cosmos of stars big and small. On Monday, Pandit Jasraj died in his New Jersey home, the voice that soared and swooped for over eight decades to touch a chord with music lovers the world over, falling silent forever. He was […]

Syria says US forces clash with Syrian troops, killing 1

11:44 pm August 17, 2020

Damascus: US forces clashed with Syrian troops in the northeast on Monday, killing at least one soldier and wounding two others, state media said, while the US military said it responded to small arms fire near a Syrian checkpoint. Tensions have been rising in northeastern Syria in recent months as the Syrian military has cut off American access to several areas. […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

3 Mississippi police officers indicted in death of Black man

11:38 pm August 17, 2020

Jackson: Three Mississippi police officers have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a Black man last year, according to a recently unsealed indictment. A Hinds County grand jury indicted the officers in the January 2019 death of George Robinson, 62, according to the August 5 indictment. It accuses the officers — Desmond Barney, Lincoln Lampley and Anthony Fox — with “willfully, unlawfully and […]

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