Day: December 19, 2019

Donald Trump has become the third President in US history to be impeached as the House of Representatives formally charged him with abuse of power and obstructing the Congress, setting up a Senate trial next year that will decide whether he remains in office after three tumultuous years.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the plea filed by one of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, seeking review of its 2017 judgement upholding his death penalty.

Certain elements who do not want to see peace in India are using its open borders, especially that with Nepal, to enter the country, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said at an event of border guarding force SSB today.

Amid protests against the amended citizenship law, BJP working president J P Nadda asserted today that the CAA will be implemented, and that the National Register of Citizens will also be brought in.

Opposition DMK and MNM today criticised the police action against historian Ramchandra Guha and Swaraj Abhiyaan chief Yogendra Yadav during the anti-CAA protests, with Kamal Haasan expressing “concern” over their safety.

The city police are still on the search for an anonymous caller who informed the control room that bombs would go off at the State Secretariat here and at the residences of Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam yesterday.

The Met Department has predicted possibilities for a heavy rain in Tamilnadu tomorrow.

A Chinese national trespassed at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and was arrested when she refused to leave, police said, the second time this year a woman from that country has been charged with illicitly entering the Florida resort.

DMK president M K Stalin today visited the party’s general secretary K Anbazhagan and greeted him on his 98th birthday at his residence in Kilapuk.

Masked protesters set bins on fire and threw rocks and glass bottles at police who responded with foam bullets in a street near Barcelona’s Camp Nou stadium as Barcelona and Real Madrid faced off in the first Clasico of the season.