JUNE 28, 2020
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) headquarters. - Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
Amid the outrage against the alleged custodial death of a father-son duo in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin district, the state government on Sunday decided to transfer the probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Chief Minister K Palaniswami said today.
The government's decision will be...
JUNE 28, 2020
China reinforced its troops near the Indian border with mountain climbers and martial arts fighters shortly before a deadly clash this month, Chinese state media reported.
Tensions are common between the two nuclear-armed neighbours in the mountainous border terrain, but this month's fighting was the deadliest encounter between India and China in over 50 years.
Five new militia divisions...
JUNE 28, 2020
China has recruited a squad of mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters into its border militia ranks, months into its escalated stand-off with India, and nearly two weeks after the hand-to-hand clash in Galwan Valley that left 20 Indian soldiers dead.
Twenty MMA fighters from the Enbo Fight Club in the country’s Sichuan province have been enlisted to form the...
JUNE 27, 2020
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence honored soldiers killed in Afghanistan earlier this year. - Doug Mills/NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. assailed President Trump on Saturday for failing to punish Russia for offering bounties to the Taliban to kill American troops in Afghanistan, while the White House denied...
JUNE 27, 2020
Sushant Singh Rajput's family paid tribute to the late actor with an emotional note. The late actor had committed suicide on June 14, 2020, leaving near and dear ones in utter shock and dismay.
Remembering Sushant as the boy from Patna who was free-spirited, curious and a man with dreams, the letter addressed Sushant as 'Gulshan'...
JUNE 27, 2020
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Sunday address the nation at 11 AM through his monthly radio talk ‘Mann Ki Baat’. Notably, this will be Modi’s 66th episode of the monthly radio programme.
In this photo released by India Government Press Information Bureau, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays tributes to Indian soldiers killed during...
JUNE 27, 2020
India-China border dispute: A fully loaded MiG 29 fighter during a combat air patrol of Ladakh skies. (AFP)
Border tensions in East Ladakh have come down a notch with India waiting for the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) to fulfil its June 6 commitment of de-escalating and disengaging its troops along the 1,597 km Line of Actual...
JUNE 27, 2020
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Mumbai. - Reuters/FRANCIS MASCARENHAS
NEW DELHI - India reported over 17,000 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, pushing the country's total above 500,000, federal health ministry data showed on Saturday, with infections surging in major cities including the capital New Delhi.
India has the world's fourth-biggest outbreak of the virus that...
JUNE 27, 2020
Protesters marched through Columbus Circle in Manhattan on Juneteenth. - Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi/NY Times
A majority of American voters support the demonstrations against police brutality and racial injustice that have roiled the country over the past month, embracing ideas about bias within the criminal justice system and the persistence of systemic racism that are central tenets of...
JUNE 26, 2020
Beijing has begun quietly delivering a message to Washington: U.S. pressure over matters China considers off limits could jeopardize Chinese purchases of farm goods and other U.S. exports under the “Phase One” trade deal.
Chinese leaders have accused Washington of meddling in areas such as Hong Kong, where China is imposing a sweeping national-security law, and Taiwan, which...
