Day: August 30, 2020

Top French military officer arrested; reported Russia ties

7:21 pm August 30, 2020

Paris: A senior French army officer based abroad has been arrested and handed preliminary treason charges for sharing highly sensitive intelligence with a foreign power, authorities said Sunday. Europe-1 radio reported that the lieutenant colonel is accused of passing “ultra-sensitive” information to Russian secret services. It reported that the officer served on a NATO base […]

PM reiterates commitment to protecting whale sharks

7:04 pm August 30, 2020

New Delhi: On International Whale Shark Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday reiterated India’s commitment to protecting them. He also said in a tweet that these gigantic fish visit the Gujarat’s coast every year and shared a state government’s paper on their conservation programme. “On International Whale Shark Day, we reiterate our commitment to […]

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

Crime Branch registers land grab case in Jammu

7:00 pm August 30, 2020

Jammu: The Crime Branch of the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Sunday registered a case against some persons including revenue officials for allegedly grabbing 5.4 hectares of state land worth crores of rupees here, a spokesman of the investigation agency said. The case was registered after an inquiry by sub-divisional magistrate, Jammu south, conclusively established […]

Goods train derails near Mathura

6:58 pm August 30, 2020

Mathura: Rail traffic on the Mathura-Delhi route was disrupted as four wagons of a goods train derailed between Vrindaban Road and Ajhai railway stations here on Sunday, officials said. According to Northern Central Railway’s Agra Divisional Commercial Manager (DCM) S K Srivastav, the Ghaziabad-bound train was coming from Chhattisgarh’s Bhilai and its wagons derailed around […]

Danny Pino boards ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ film adaptation

6:55 pm August 30, 2020

Los Angeles: Actor Danny Pino, best known for shows like “Cold Case” and “Mayans MC”, has joined the cast of Universal’s feature film adaptation of the Broadway hit “Dear Evan Hansen”. The story revolves around Hansen, a high school student with social anxiety. He unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of […]