Day: June 26, 2020

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought to recruit hackers at conferences in Europe and Asia who could provide his anti-secrecy website with classified information, and conspired with members of hacking organisations, according to a new Justice Department indictment announced Wednesday.

he iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris reopened on Thursday to visitors after a three-month closure, the longest since World War Two, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  But the Paris monument isn’t returning to normal operations just yet, said a BBC news report.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday called slain al Qaeda chief and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden a shaheed (martyr) and said that Islamabad faced embarrassment by taking part in America’s war on terror.

Making match-fixing a criminal offence in India will be the single-most-effective thing in a country where the police are operating with one hand tied behind their back in the absence of any stringent law. This has been the remarks of a few in cricketing fraternity.

A terrorist was killed in an overnight encounter with security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said today.

The Tamilnadu government has extended the time given to the Justice Arumughaswamy Commission to probe the death of former Chief Minister J Jayalalthaa.

A Congress leader in Madhya Pradesh has found himself in the middle of a controversy after he allegedly made a sexist comment while attacking the Union governnment.

A tweet by a BJP leader that V K Sasikala, close aide of late Tamilnadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, is likely to be released from the Parapana Agrahara prison in August has set off intense political speculation.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has criticised the DMK for aligning with the Congress and said the DMK has no right to speak about democracy.

Shops were shut once again in Tamilnadu today, protesting the custodial deaths of dad-son duo, both traders, at Sathankulam in southern Thoothukudi district.