Day: August 23, 2020

Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter wants her mother’s name changed in passport

9:00 pm August 23, 2020

Srinagar: The elder daughter of PDP president Mehbooba Mufti has sought to change her mother’s name in her passport to Mehbooba Syed. A notice stating this was published in a local newspaper by Irtiqa Javed. “I, Irtiqa Javed, daughter of Javed Iqbal Shah Resident of Fairview House Gupkar Road, Srinagar, Kashmir 190001 want to change the name of my mother in my […]

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How starving public health fuelled a COVID fire in Florida

8:52 pm August 23, 2020

Jacksonville: On a sweltering July morning, Rose Wilson struggled to breathe as she sat in her bed, the light from her computer illuminating her face and the oxygen tubes in her nose. Wilson, a retiree who worked as a public health department nurse supervisor in Duval County for 35 years, had just been diagnosed with COVID-19-induced pneumonia. She had […]

5 dead, 11 missing as flooding hits Turkey’s Black Sea coast

8:46 pm August 23, 2020

Ankara: Five people have died in floods caused by heavy rain along Turkey‘s Black Sea coastline, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday. A further 11 people were missing after flooding around the mountain town of Dereli in Giresun province. “As a state, we will quickly overcome the destruction and devastation here with God’s will,” Erdogan said at an event in Istanbul. […]

Gold smuggling case; agencies probing alleged import of holy books from UAE “without proper documentation”

8:37 pm August 23, 2020

Kochi: Central agencies probing the sensational gold smuggling case in Kerala are now focusing their probe into the alleged import of holy books to the state from the UAE via diplomatic channel “without proper documentation”, official sources said here on Sunday. Highly placed sources said the agencies are probing whether the consignments brought from the UAE “without proper documentation” were the Holy […]

13 die in Peru disco stampede after police lockdown raid

8:25 pm August 23, 2020

Lima: Thirteen people died in a stampede at a disco in Peru after a police raid to enforce the country’s lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Sunday The stampede happened at the Thomas disco in Lima, where about 120 people had gathered for a party on Saturday night, the Interior Ministry said People tried to escape […]