Day: February 6, 2021

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Aid groups hail US taking Yemen”s Houthis off terror list

7:49 pm February 6, 2021

Cairo: Aid agencies working in war-torn Yemen on Saturday welcomed plans by President Joe Biden’s administration to revoke the terrorist designation of Yemen’s Houthi rebels in order to mitigate one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. David Miliband, head of the International Rescue Committee, said the designation would have done nothing to address terrorism in the Arab world’s poorest country, and would only hinder […]

India fighting Covid with all its might: PM Modi

SC judge hails PM as `popular, vibrant and visionary leader’

7:45 pm February 6, 2021

Ahmedabad: Supreme Court justice M R Shah on Saturday described Prime Minister Narendra Modi as ”our most popular, loved, vibrant and visionary leader”. The praise for the prime minister by Justice Shah came during a function to celebrate diamond jubilee of the Gujarat High Court. ”I am proud and privileged to participate in the function […]

Maharashtra: Lawyer commits suicide

7:33 pm February 6, 2021

Nagpur: A46-year-old lawyer on Saturday committed suicide by hanging himself using a rope from a ceiling hook at his house in Sadar area here in Maharashtra,police said. The body of Santosh Kinnake was found hanging by his teacher wife after she returned home around 10 AM, an official said. The exact cause behind Kinnake taking […]

Man sentenced to life imprisonment for raping minor girl in UP

2:45 pm February 6, 2021

Ballia: A court in Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh has sentenced a young man to life imprisonment for raping a three-and-a-half-year-old girl, police said on Saturday. Superintendent of Police of Ballia Vipin Tada said the man raped the girl in a village in the Chitbadagaav police station area on September 5, 2019. Based on a complaint filed […]

US will hold China accountable for its abuses of international system: Blinken

2:38 pm February 6, 2021

Washington: The US will hold China accountable for its abuses of the international system, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said as he spoke to his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi and raised with him the issue of human rights violations in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong. The two leaders spoke on Friday. It was the first conversation between the top officials since President Joe Biden took office on January […]