Day: December 2, 2020

Boat capsizes, two drowned, four missing

11:35 pm December 2, 2020

Mangaluru: Two fishermen drowned and four others were reported missing after their boat capsized near an estuary, eight nautical miles of the Mangaluru coast, police said on Wednesday. Local people managed to rescue 19 fishermen with a dinghy. The boat with 25 persons on board, capsized as it was overloaded with their catch and the […]

Religious, political groups in Leh, Kargil hold joint meeting, decide to continue talks

11:29 pm December 2, 2020

Kargil: Representatives of two alliances of religious, political and social organisations based in Ladakh’s Leh and Kargil held their first joint meeting here and said they will oppose any law that is against the interests of the people of the union territory. The Leh-based People’s Movement for Sixth Schedule for Ladakh and the Kargil Democratic […]

‘Here to demand what is ours’: Farmers protesting at Delhi-Ghazipur border

11:26 pm December 2, 2020

New Delhi: “We are not here to fight. We are here to demand what is ours,” says Gulzar Singh, a farmer from Uttar Pradesh who is camping at the Delhi-Ghazipur border here with nearly 350 others from his state and neighbouring Uttarakhand against the Centre’s new farm laws. “We never wanted these laws in the first place, […]

Adityanath woos industrialists, promises ‘security, respect and conducing atmosphere’ in UP

11:19 pm December 2, 2020

Lucknow: Assuring “security, respect and conducive environment”, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday invited businesses to invest in the state of “unlimited possibilities”. The UP chief minister met a slew of industrialists during his two-day visit to Mumbai. “We will give you safety, security, respect and conducive atmosphere for setting up your businesses,” an official […]

FBI agent shot, Ohio homicide suspect killed in Louisiana

11:14 pm December 2, 2020

Eagan : An FBI agent was shot and an Ohio homicide suspect was killed during a shooting in Louisiana while the agent was executing a search warrant for the suspect The wounded agent was taken to a hospital after the shooting in Pineville, Louisiana, the agency’s New Orleans field office said in a statement posted […]