Day: December 16, 2020

Plea seeks FIR against actor Saif Ali Khan for hurting religious sentiments

7:04 pm December 16, 2020

Jaunpur: A lawyer moved a court here on Wednesday seeking the registration of a case against Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan for allegedly hurting religious sentiments in an interview over his upcoming movie, “Adipurush” Petitioner Himanshu Shrivastava alleged that Khan termed demon king Ravan as “dayalu” (kind-hearted) person and justified his battle with Lord Ram as his brother Lakshman had cut the nose of Ravan’s […]

Farmers’ protest a planned conspiracy by oppn: Guj BJP chief

7:00 pm December 16, 2020

Ahmedabad: BJP’s Gujarat unit president C R Paatil on Wednesday alleged that the ongoing agitation by farmers on the Delhi borders was a planned conspiracy by the opposition parties to create anarchy in the country and to destabilise it. Paatil, a BJP MP from Navsari Lok Sabha constituency in Gujarat, said Congress was in favour of these farm […]

Saudi Arabia plans spending cuts to trim deficit amid virus

6:55 pm December 16, 2020

Dubai: Saudi Arabia plans to cut more than 7 per cent in spending next year, the finance ministry said, as the region’s biggest oil producer seeks to trim a gaping budget deficit amid the coronavirus pandemic and falling oil prices. The kingdom expects its deficit to hit USD 79.4 billion this year, according to a […]

Suicide abetment: HC allows Arnab to challenge chargesheet

6:52 pm December 16, 2020

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday allowed journalist Arnab Goswami to challenge the chargesheet filed in the 2018 abetment of suicide case against him after it was informed that a magistrates court in Raigad district has taken cognizance of the document. Goswamis counsel Aabad Ponda told the HC that the magistrates court at Alibag in the adjoining district earlier in […]

PM lights ‘Swarnim Vijay Mashaal’ to start 50th anniversary year celebrations of 1971 war win

6:50 pm December 16, 2020

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday lit the ”Swarnim Vijay Mashaal” from the eternal flame of the National War Memorial here, marking the beginning of the 50th anniversary year celebrations of India’s victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war that led to the birth of Bangladesh. On December 16, 1971, then chief of Pakistani forces General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, along with […]