Day: August 23, 2020

Goa: Hotelier’s son held for sexually abusing dyslexic girl

7:33 pm August 23, 2020

Panaji: A 30-year-old son of a Panaji- based hotelier has been arrested for allegedly molesting a minor girl with special needs, police said on Sunday. The accused is identified as Varun Nayyar, an official said. The accused allegedly took the 13-year-old dyslexic girl to an isolated place in his car near Panaji on August 17 and molested […]

Internet disruption reported in southeast Iran amid unrest

Iran: UN nuclear chief’s visit to Tehran no link to US push

7:22 pm August 23, 2020

Tehran: Iran said Sunday that an upcoming visit this week by the head of the UN’s atomic watchdog agency to Tehran has nothing to do with a US push to impose so-called “snapback” sanctions on Iran. The Trump administration last week dismissed near-universal opposition to its demand to restore all UN sanctions on Iran, declaring that a 30-day countdown for […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Comatose Russian dissident visited by wife, aide in Germany

7:18 pm August 23, 2020

Berlin: Alexi Navalny wife and a top aide visited him Sunday in a Berlin hospital where the comatose Russian dissident is being treated by German doctors after a suspected poisoning. Navalny was flown to Germany on Saturday from Siberia after doctors determined he was stable enough to be brought to the capital’s Charité hospital for […]

India’s COVID-19 recovery rate nears 75 pc, case fatality rate one of the lowest globally at 1.86 pc

7:11 pm August 23, 2020

New Delhi: Recoveries among COVID-19 patients in the country surged to 22,80,566 on Sunday, pushing India’s recovery rate to nearly 75 per cent, while the case fatality rate reduced to 1.86 per cent — one of the lowest globally, the Union health ministry said. The constantly rising number of recoveries has ensured that the active cases […]

AIIMS forensic team report lacks credibility, says Rajput's family lawyer

CBI questions Sushant’s friend, house helps, visits his flat

7:05 pm August 23, 2020

Mumbai: CBI sleuths on Sunday questioned actor Sushant Singh Rajput‘s friend Siddharth Pithani, cook Neeraj Singh and domestic help Deepesh Sawant at the DRDO guest house here in connection with his death case and later visited the actor’s flat in Bandra along with them, an official said. In the morning, Pithani, Neeraj and Sawant arrived separately at the DRDO guest house […]