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7 new COVID-19 cases in Karnataka, CM briefs opposition

Karnataka to implement CAA “hundred per cent”: CM

8:10 pm December 18, 2019

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Wednesday declared that his government will “hundred per cent” implement the Citizenship Amendment Act. “Hundred per cent we will implement,” he told reporters at Hubballi in north Karnataka in response to a question regarding the implementation of the CAA. State Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai had said on […]

Ombudsman allows Rajat Sharma to quit as DDCA President

7:10 pm November 29, 2019

New Delhi: The Delhi and Districts Cricket Association ombudsman Justice (Retd) Badar Durrez Ahmed on Friday accepted senior journalist Rajat Sharma’s resignation from the position of DDCA President, nearly a fortnight after putting a stay on it. Sharma had resigned on November 16, citing “various pulls and pressures” within the organisation.” His resignation was stayed […]

Aide recounts actions tying Trump to delay in Ukraine funds

6:59 pm November 17, 2019

WASHINGTON: Gordon Sondland, President Donald Trump’s emissary to the European Union, had a message when he met with a top Ukrainian official. Sondland said vital U.S. military assistance to Ukraine might be freed up if the country’s top prosecutor “would go to the mike and announce that he was opening the Burisma investigation,” a U.S. […]

PM Modi to chair meeting of CSIR society on Friday

Union Cabinet recommends President’s rule in Maharashtra

7:17 pm November 12, 2019

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Tuesday recommended President’s rule in Maharashtra where no political party has been able to form a government after the assembly polls last month. Sources said the Union cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, met here this afternoon to discuss the political impasse in Maharashtra and decided to recommend […]

Macron takes aim at Islamic ‘separatism’ in France

11:57 pm October 28, 2019

Paris: President Emmanuel Macron on Monday urged France’s Muslim community to step up the fight against “separatism” as he toughened his rhetoric against Islamic radicalism in the wake of a deadly attack. The centrist Macron, whose main political rival at home is far-right leader Marine Le Pen, has sought to show he is serious in […]