Day: January 25, 2021

Biden reverses Trump ban on transgender people in military

11:59 pm January 25, 2021

Washington: President Joe Biden signed an order Monday reversing a Trump era Pentagon policy that largely barred transgender individuals from serving in the military. The new order, which Biden signed in the Oval Office during a meeting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, overturns a ban ordered by President Donald Trump in a tweet during his first year in office. It immediately prohibits any […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Appeals court upholds convictions in Kansas bomb plot

11:58 pm January 25, 2021

Wichita: A federal appeals court has upheld the convictions and sentences of three militia members facing decades in prison for their roles in a foiled 2016 plot to massacre Somali Muslims in southwest Kansas. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected all the arguments raised by attorneys for Gavin Wright, Curtis Allen and Patrick Stein. The court was not swayed […]

UP CM dedicates projects worth Rs 706 crore in Noida

11:53 pm January 25, 2021

Noida (UP): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday laid foundation stones and inaugurated 66 small and big projects totalling Rs 706 crore in Noida via a video conference from Lucknow. This was done by the chief minister as he inaugurated the ‘Shilp Haat’ programme in Noida’s Sector 33A virtually to mark the 71st […]

Former village head found dead in UP’s Amethi

11:48 pm January 25, 2021

Amethi (UP): The body of a 60-year-old former village pradhan, who was missing since Sunday, was found near a canal here with a gunshot wound to the head, police said. Jageshwar Maurya went missing from his house on Sunday evening, they added. “On Monday morning, his body was found near a canal in Pooremukund Ramai […]

Bihar’s “cycle girl” interacts with PM Modi

11:45 pm January 25, 2021

Darbhanga (Bihar): “Cycle girl” Jyoti Kumari, who had pedalled all the way from Gurugram to Bihar with her father seated on the carrier during the nationwide lockdown, found herself in the limelight again on Monday when she interacted with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a recipient of the “Pradhanmantri Bal Puraskar”. The 16-year-old was among […]

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