Day: June 26, 2021

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

7 months of farmer protest: Leaders in no mood to relent, say will end stir if agri laws repealed

11:57 pm June 26, 2021

New Delhi: As their agitation completed seven months, farmer leaders on Saturday stuck to their demands, saying they will call off their protest if the government repeals the three farm laws even as Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar appealed to them to end their stir and offered to resume talks. Yudhvir Singh, general secretary of Bhartiya Kisan Union, an umbrella body […]

All Aboard! 1st post-pandemic cruise ship readies to sail

11:41 pm June 26, 2021

Fort Lauderdale : The first cruise ship to leave a US port since the coronavirus pandemic brought the industry to a 15-month standstill is preparing to set sail with nearly all vaccinated passengers on board. Celebrity Edge will depart Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at 6 pm Saturday with the number of passengers limited to about 40 percent capacity, and […]

Kerber wins first title since Wimbledon 2018 in Bad Homburg

11:29 pm June 26, 2021

Bad Homburg: Angelique Kerber won her first title since Wimbledon in 2018 by beating Katerina Siniakova 6-3, 6-2 in the final of the Bad Homburg Open on Saturday. Back in a final for the first time in two years and playing in front of a home crowd, the three-time Grand Slam champion broke Siniakova’s serve six times en route to her 13th career WTA singles […]

1 dead, 3 critical after taking pills from suspected health worker

11:13 pm June 26, 2021

Erode: A woman died while her husband and two others are battling for life after taking tablets given to them by a person suspected to be a volunteer from the Health Department to find residents suffering from symptoms of Covid-19. The incident happened at K G Valasu village in Erode district on Saturday. This morning, the person entered the house of […]

Sri Lankan death row prisoners end hunger strike

11:00 pm June 26, 2021

Colombo: Death row prisoners in Sri Lanka, who were on a hunger strike demanding commutation of their sentences, similar to the Presidential pardon extended to a former parliamentarian facing capital punishment earlier in the week, have ended their protest after official assurances of representation, authorities said on Saturday. Over 175 prisoners on death row from the Main Welikada Prison here […]

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