Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram today slammed the government for invoking the Public Safety Act against former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah and said detention without charges is the worst abomination in a democracy.
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A Tamilnadu Minister made a tribal boy remove his slippers during the inauguration of an elephant camp in Theppakkadu near here today, a video of which has gone viral drawing flak from a section of social media users.
The United States Senate Wednesday acquitted President Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment — abuse of power and obstruction to Congress — giving him a major political and moral victory in an election year.
Amid anti-CAA protests in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today accused the Congress and the Left of inciting people at protest sites while making it clear that the Act will neither impact any Indian citizen nor harm minority interests.
The Reserve Bank of India today opted for a status quo on benchmark interest rate after the Union Budget for 2020-21 slipped on fiscal deficit target and there were signs of hardening inflation amid an uncertain global environment.
Three people have died and 179 were injured when a plane skidded off the runway at an Istanbul airport, caught fire and split into three after landing in rough weather. Live images broadcast on Turkish television showed several people climbing through a large crack in the severed aircraft and escaping onto one of the wings at the rear.
Police shot and killed a man on Wednesday after he tried to attack officers with a knife in The Church of Latter-day Saints’ missionary training center in Brazil, church and police officials said.
Ireland goes to the polls on Saturday, with Prime Minister Leo Varadkar touting his successful handling of Brexit, but facing pressure over housing and healthcare. A late surge in support for the republican Sinn Fein party, once the voice of the IRA paramilitary group, also threatens to shake up the political landscape. Varadkar’s Fine Gael party has led a minority government with the main opposition party, Fianna Fail, since the 2016 election. Just a few months after that, Britain voted to leave the European Union — and Brexit has dominated Irish politics since.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will make his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa, the State Department said Wednesday, putting a focus on a continent rarely prioritized by the Trump administration. The State Department said that Pompeo will travel to Senegal, Angola and Ethiopia from 15 to 19 February, meeting the leaders of all three countries.