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Parents reunite with missing son after tracing him on TV show

2:01 pm September 18, 2019

Kolkata: A television programme has helped reunite a mentally-challenged teenager with his parents over two-and-a-half years after he had gone missing. Family members of the 13-year-old boy were watching the news bulletin on ‘Doordarshan Kolkata’, when they spotted their ward among the inmates of a home for mentally ill persons, in Nadia district of West […]

bin Laden son Hamza bin Laden killed in US operation: White House

9:28 pm September 14, 2019

WASHINGTON: The White House announced Saturday that Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late al-Qaida leader who had become an increasingly prominent figure in the terrorist organization, was killed in a U.S. counter-terrorism operation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. A statement issued in President Donald Trump’s name gave no further details, such as when Hamza […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Trade War: China to lift punitive tariffs on US soybeans, pork

9:42 pm September 13, 2019

BEIJING: China will lift punitive tariffs imposed on U.S. soybeans and pork in a trade war with Washington, a state news agency said Friday, adding to conciliatory gestures by the two sides ahead of negotiations. China will suspend tariff hikes on soybeans, pork and some other farm goods, the Xinhua News Agency said, citing the […]

Will provide citizenship to 11 million people if voted to power; says Biden

Democratic debate: Joe Biden looks like a front-runner

9:19 pm September 13, 2019

WASHINGTON: Joe Biden is the Democratic front-runner. And there were moments in Thursday night’s debate when he looked the part. Standing between a pair of liberal senators offering radical change, he unabashedly embraced his more moderate position on health care, forcefully pressuring Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to level with Americans about the steep cost […]

Democratic debate: Top 2020 contenders finally on same stage

3:39 am September 13, 2019

HOUSTON: Progressive Democrats Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders share the debate stage for the first time with establishment favorite Joe Biden Thursday night in a prime-time showdown displaying sharply opposing notions of electability in the party’s presidential nomination fight. Biden’s remarkably steady lead in the crowded contest has been built on the idea that the […]