Day: December 18, 2020

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Egyptian court acquits men accused of abusing Coptic woman

10:49 pm December 18, 2020

Cairo: An Egyptian criminal court acquitted three Muslim men accused of stripping naked an elderly Coptic Christian woman and parading her through the streets of a village in southern Egypt in 2016, the state’s official news agency reported. The three had been sentenced to 10 years in absentia in January, before they were detained and stood a retrial for the attack […]

World court to intervene in Guyana-Venezuela border dispute

10:46 pm December 18, 2020

Caracas: The United Nations’ highest court ruled Friday that it will intervene to settle a decades-old border dispute between South American neighbors Guyana and Venezuela. The decision by the International Court of Justice means it will now move to judge the merits of the case, which will likely take months or years. Venezuela had argued that the world court […]

Man kills wife, hangs self in Latur

10:42 pm December 18, 2020

Latur: A man allegedly committed suicide in Ausa tehsil in Latur district after killing his wife, police said on Friday. The incident happened on Thursday morning in Ashiv village, a Bhada police station official said. ”Mahadev Pardhe (45) killed his wife Anuradha by slitting her throat after an argument and then hanged himself. The couple has two […]

Mega zoo set to come up on 250 acres in Gujarat’s Jamnagar

10:40 pm December 18, 2020

Ahmedabad: One of the biggest zoos in the world in terms of number and species of animals at one place is coming up in Jamnagar in Gujarat, a state government official said on Friday. MK Das, additional chief secretary in the chief minister’s office, said the zoo was being developed by Reliance Industries which operates a […]

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

US blacklists top Chinese chipmaker, alleging military ties

10:35 pm December 18, 2020

Washington: The Trump administration blacklisted China’s top chipmaker Friday, limiting the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp’s access to advanced US technology because of its alleged ties to the Chinese military. “We will not allow advanced US technology to help build the military of an increasingly belligerent adversary,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement explaining the decision to put SMIC on […]