Day: September 28, 2020

Man held for killing stepbrother, looting gold worth Rs 1.5 cr

7:28 pm September 28, 2020

Thane: A man who allegedly shot dead his stepbrother with the help of a driver and fled with gold worth Rs 1.5 crore has been arrested in Thane district, police said on Monday. The duo, after stealing gold to make it look like a killing carried out for robbery, had thrown the body into Vashi […]

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

Swedish fuel giant stops planned expansion of oil refinery

7:23 pm September 28, 2020

Stockholm: Sweden’s largest fuel company said Monday that it has decided to stop a planned oil refinery expansion that would have made it the country’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and was increasingly becoming a hot potato issue for Prime Minister Stefan Lofven’s minority government. Preem said that “the COVID-19 crisis and its effects on […]

Former civil servants issue statement in support of farm sector laws

7:16 pm September 28, 2020

New Delhi: A group of former public servants on Monday backed the farm reform laws enacted by the Modi government and claimed that “disinformation” is being spread over the issue to negatively impact the morale of farmers. The farm bills passed by Parliament mark the watershed in the liberation of India’s farming community from the […]

Original plan of Patna’s Hardinge Park included statue of Lady Hardinge too: Archives

7:09 pm September 28, 2020

Patna: An eponymous memorial committee set up exactly 107 years ago to build Patna’s famed Hardinge Park had proposed to erect life-size statues of the Viceroy who was instrumental in the creation of the new province of Bihar and Orissa, and also of his wife, according to rare archival documents. Named after Viceroy Lord Hardinge and built as Patna’s first public park, it was […]

China fires back at US over environment, South China Sea

7:01 pm September 28, 2020

Beijing: US-China friction flared again Monday, with Beijing firing back at accusations by Washington that it is a leading cause of global environmental damage and has reneged on its promise not to militarise the South China Sea. A document issued last week by the State Department cited China’s record on issues from greenhouse gas emissions to air and water and soil […]