Day: December 24, 2020

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Relative of Blackwater victim in Iraq says pardons ‘unfair’

10:46 pm December 24, 2020

Baghdad : Faris Fadel had just one word to describe the recent pardoning by the Trump administration of four private security contractors convicted of killing Iraqi civilians — including his brother — in a public square 13 years ago: Unfair. Fadel’s brother, Osama Abbas, had been on his way to work that fateful day. He had just crossed a street […]

Four held for running hookah bars in Delhi in violation of COVID-19 norms

10:43 pm December 24, 2020

New Delhi: The Delhi Police busted four hookah bars operating in the national capital’s Punjabi Bagh area in violation of COVID-19 norms and arrested as many people, officials said on Thursday. Four places were identified after the police received information that hookah bars were being run illegally in Punjabi Bagh. Four teams were constituted to […]

Punjab & Sind Bank declares Sintex Industries account as fraud

10:39 pm December 24, 2020

New Delhi: State-owned Punjab & Sind Bank on Thursday said it has declared the account of Sintex Industries with the total outstanding of Rs 294 crore as fraud and reported the same to the RBI. With regard to the bank’s policy on determination and disclosures of material events, it is informed that an NPA account […]

Abe apologises, but isn’t charged for cherry blossom scandal

10:34 pm December 24, 2020

Tokyo: Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apologised Thursday after prosecutors declined to indict him for illegal payments his office made involving dinner receptions for his supporters during Japan’s popular cherry blossom season. When Abe resigned in September, he cited ill health but critics have suggested the scandal might have been a reason. His successor, Yoshihide Suga, scrapped the annual cherry […]

Timeline of events in Britain’s exit from the European Union

10:29 pm December 24, 2020

London: A timeline of key events related to Britain’s decision to leave the European Union: January 23, 2013: British Prime Minister David Cameron promises a referendum on Britain’s membership in the EU if the Conservative Party wins the next general election. He does so to try to garner support among euroskeptics within his own party. […]