Day: November 1, 2020

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

Dy-CM Dushyant says Haryana alone leaving claim on Chandigarh will serve no benefit

11:57 pm November 1, 2020

Chandigarh: Haryana leaving claim on common capital Chandigarh will serve no benefit until Punjab too decides to do that, Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said on Sunday. His remarks came on a day when Haryana is celebrating 54 years of coming into existence as a separate state after it was carved out of undivided Punjab in 1966. Chandigarh is the common capital of Haryana and Punjab and the two […]

Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Under Trump, citizenship and visa agency focuses on fraud

11:53 pm November 1, 2020

Sandiego: The head of the agency handling citizenship and visa applications was surprised when he faced blowback for cutting a reference to the U.S. being a “nation of immigrants” in its mission statement. The son of a Peruvian immigrant added language about “protecting Americans” instead. L. Francis Cissna argued that America is indisputably a nation of immigrants but that U.S. […]

Thai king and queen take to street to meet adoring royalists

11:48 pm November 1, 2020

Bangkok: Under increasing pressure from protesters demanding reforms to the monarchy, Thailand’s king and queen met Sunday with thousands of adoring supporters in Bangkok, mixing with citizens in the street after attending a religious ceremony inside the Grand Palace. Crowds of royal devotees waited for hours outside the white walls of the storybook palace compound […]

Israel’s Netanyahu praises Trump policies ahead of election

11:43 pm November 1, 2020

Jerusalem: Israel‘s leader on Sunday praised President Donald Trump’s Mideast policies, even as he avoided openly taking sides ahead of the US presidential election. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters that US bipartisan support has been “one of the foundations of the American-Israeli alliance.” He then went on to say “that alliance has never been stronger” and […]

French churches honour Nice attack victims; 6 detained

11:37 pm November 1, 2020

Paris: Churches around France held Sunday services honouring three people killed in an Islamic extremist attack at Notre Dame Basilica in the city of Nice that pushed the country into high security alert, while police questioned six suspects in the case. Nice Archbishop Andre Marceau was preparing for a special nighttime service in the basilica to purify it following […]

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