Day: December 22, 2020

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Pandemic crushes global supply chains, workers at both ends

11:13 pm December 22, 2020

Washington: In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local JC Penney store, Alexandra Orozco took out her phone and hit record. The 22-year-old shot a video of the giant black-and-red ‘Everything Must go!” posters, and posted it on TikTok in October. “Slowing losing my job,” she wrote below, days before the store […]

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Pakistan’s Baloch political activist found dead in Canada: Reports

11:12 pm December 22, 2020

Islamabad: Pakistani political activist Karima Baloch, who campaigned extensively against disappearances and human rights violations in the troubled Balochistan province, has been found dead in Toronto, media reports here said on Tuesday. The 37-year-old activist, who was living in exile in Canada for about five years, had gone missing on Sunday. Her family filed a missing […]

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Trudeau should be concerned about ‘suspected murder’ of Pak activist: BJP foreign affairs dept head

11:09 pm December 22, 2020

New Delhi : BJP’s foreign affairs department head Vijay Chauthaiwale on Tuesday took a swipe at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after dissident Pakistani human rights activist Karima Baloch was found dead in Canada and questioned his ”silence” ”Rather than making uninformed, unsubstantiated comments on farmer’s agitation in India, Canadian PM @JustinTrudeau should be concerned about suspected murder of Karima Baloch in Toronto. But he is silent so far,” Chauthaiwale tweeted. […]

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Farmer unions to address queries on farm laws via webinar

11:05 pm December 22, 2020

New Delhi : The newly-formed social media cell of the farmers‘ collective announced on Tuesday that a web conference would be conducted to address all queries regarding the three new farm laws and the protest against it. The webinar, to be hosted on video conference platform Zoom on Thursday noon, will be open for the first ”10,000 […]

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Consuming ‘taadi’ can prevent from catching COVID-19, claims BSP’s UP unit chief

11:02 pm December 22, 2020

Ballia: Bahujan Samaj Party’s Uttar Pradesh unit president Bheem Rajbhar has claimed that if people consume large quantities of farm liquor ‘taadi’, they will not catch COVID-19. He also claimed that ‘taadi’ has immunity power and a drop of it is purer than the water of the Ganga river. Addressing a party programme in Rasra area of […]

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