Day: August 25, 2020

Nikki Haley and top Republican leaders call for US boycott of 2022 Winter Olympics in China

America is not a racist country, asserts Indian-American politician Nikki Haley

6:45 pm August 25, 2020

Washington: Describing herself as a proud daughter of Indian immigrants who wore a turban and a saree, top Republican politician Nikki Haley has narrated her story to the American voters, urging them to strongly reject the Democratic Party’s “fashionable” statement that “America is racist.” The 48-year-old former US Ambassador to the United Nations, Haley is the only Indian-American listed so far to be speaking […]

INS Viraat to be dismantled at Alang in Gujarat

6:35 pm August 25, 2020

Ahmedabad: INS Viraat, the aircraft carrier that served the Indian Navy for 30 years before being decommissioned three years ago, is likely to be towed from Mumbai to Alang in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district next month to be dismantled and sold as scrap, an official said on Tuesday. The longest serving warship, inducted into the Indian […]

Journalist shot dead in UP, 4 arrested

2:14 pm August 25, 2020

Ballia (UP): A journalist working with a Hindi news channel was on Monday night shot dead in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh, police said. He has been identified as Ratan Singh (45). “A journalist working with a Hindi news channel was shot dead on Monday night in Phephana. He has been identified as Ratan Singh […]

PM Awas Yojana supervisor caught taking bribe in Gujarat

2:07 pm August 25, 2020

Ahmedabad: A site supervisor of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district was caught while taking a bribe of Rs 10,500 from a scheme beneficiary, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said on Tuesday. The complainant, a resident of Palanpur town in Banaskantha, submitted an application to the local municipality in 2018 to get financial […]

Israel bombs Gaza militants in response to fire balloons

1:59 pm August 25, 2020

Jerusalem: Israel’s military said it bombed militant positions in the Gaza Strip early on Tuesday in response to incendiary balloons launched into southern Israel farmlands a day earlier. It was the second night in a row that Israel bombed the coastal territory. Tensions between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza have intensified in recent weeks. Tuesday’s strikes came as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was visiting […]