Day: October 18, 2020

12-year-old boy charred to death in J-K's Samba

MP: Transporter’s minor son kidnapped for ransom found dead

3:06 pm October 18, 2020

Jabalpur: A 13-year-old boy, kidnapped three days back from Madhya Pradesh‘s Jabalpur district by some persons for a ransom of Rs 2 crore, was found dead on Sunday, police said. The body of the boy, who was the son of a local transporter, was found floating in Bargi dam canal near Bichua village, located around […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

US, Israeli envoys fly to Bahrain to advance nascent ties

3:03 pm October 18, 2020

Jerusalem: A joint American-Israeli delegation headed on Sunday for Bahrain, where officials will be signing a number of bilateral agreements following an announcement last month to normalise relations. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s national security adviser, Meir Ben-Shabbat, led the delegation that flew out of Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport. […]

Internet disruption reported in southeast Iran amid unrest

UN arms embargoes on Iran expire despite US objections

2:59 pm October 18, 2020

Tehran: A decade-long U.N. arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets expired Sunday as planned under its nuclear deal with world powers, despite objections from the United States. While insisting it planned no “buying spree,” Iran in theory can purchase weapons to upgrade military armament dating […]

2 more accused in Ballia firing incident arrested

2:54 pm October 18, 2020

Ballia: Two more persons have been arrested in connection with the killing of a 46-year-old man at a meeting attended by senior administration and police officials here three days ago, a senior police official said on Sunday. With this, police have so far arrested seven people in this case. This includes four named accused and […]

Mar Thoma church head Joseph Mar Thoma is dead

12:37 pm October 18, 2020

Thiruvalla: Joseph Mar Thoma Metropolitan, the primate of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, died early Sunday at a private hospital here after battling cancer, church sources said. The 90-year old head of the Marthoma community was under treatment for pancreatic cancer and breathed his last around 2.30 AM, hospital sources said. Prime Minister Narendra […]