Day: January 13, 2021

Woman constable alleges rape by policeman

6:28 pm January 13, 2021

Gonda (UP): A constable has alleged that she was raped by a colleague in Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda district, officials said on Wednesday. A case was registered in this regard on Tuesday night at the women police station, they said. Superintendent of Police Shailesh Kumar Pandey said the policewoman accused the constable of raping her on […]

Iran to hold missile drill in Gulf of Oman amid tensions

3:31 pm January 13, 2021

Tehran: Iran‘s navy was poised to begin a short-range missile drill in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday, state TV reported, amid heightened regional tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program and a U.S. pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic. The two-day missile drill was to be held in the gulf’s southeastern waters and two new Iranian-made warships were expected to join the exercise: The missile-launching Zereh, […]

Indonesian searchers hunt for crashed plane’s voice recorder

3:25 pm January 13, 2021

Jakarta: Divers searching for a crashed jet’s cockpit voice recorder were sifting through mud and plane debris on the seabed between Indonesian islands on Wednesday to retrieve information key to learning why the Sriwijaya Air jet nosedived into the Java Sea over the weekend. Indonesian navy divers on Tuesday recovered the flight data recorder from the jet that disappeared […]

Will Trump's mishandling of records leave a hole in history?

US House passes resolution asking Pence to invoke 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office

3:24 pm January 13, 2021

Washington : The Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives, which is rushing ahead towards impeaching Donald Trump over the unprecedented Capitol Hill attack, has passed a resolution urging Vice President Mike Pence to invoke 25th Amendment to remove the president from office. The resolution was voted by 223 to 205 votes on Tuesday night. The voting was mostly on party lines, with one Republican voting in favour of […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Fury at the shaken Capitol over the attack, security, virus

3:10 pm January 13, 2021

Washington : This time the fury enveloping the U.S. Capitol comes not from an insurgent mob but from within. The anger on display is searing — Democrat against Republican; Republican against Republican; legislators of both parties against the catastrophic security failure that left top leaders of the government vulnerable to last week’s violence as well as to the coronavirus in their ranks. […]