Protesters of Senate Bill 8 stand at the front steps of the Texas Capitol during a march last weekend. Photo by Michael Gonzalez/The Texas Tribune Oct. 9 (UPI) — The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Friday temporarily allowed Texas’ near-total abortion ban — the strictest in the nation — to again be enforced…Continue Reading
Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, who became Iran’s first president after the 1979 Islamic revolution before fleeing into exile in France, died on Saturday aged 88. He died at the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris following a long illness, his wife and children said on Bani-Sadr’s official website. Bani-Sadr had emerged from obscurity to become Iran’s first president in…Continue Reading
Top Congress leadership will gather here on October 16 to deliberate on the current political situation, including the Lakhimpur violence, and decide on the organisational elections at a meeting of the party’s working committee. The meeting of the Congress’ top decision-making body has been convened after demands from some quarters within the party to discuss…Continue Reading
Curated by वैभव पांडेय | नवभारतटाइम्स.कॉम | Updated: Oct 9, 2021, 5:43 PMकेंद्रीय गृह राज्य मंत्री अजय कुमार मिश्रा के बेटे आशीष मिश्रा से लखीमपुर पुलिस करीब छह घंटे तक पूछताछ कर रही है। पूछताछ प्रक्रिया की वीडियोग्रॉफी भी की जा रही है। आशीष मिश्रा की गिरफ्तारी की मांग पर किसान संगठन और विपक्ष लगातार…Continue Reading
Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Saturday said that he doesn’t consider those who killed BJP workers in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri as culprits as they only reacted to SUV running over protesters. Eight people were killed in the violence that broke out on October 3 after an SUV allegedly ran over a group…Continue Reading
LAHORE: Former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik will make his sixth appearance at the Twenty20 World Cup later this month after being recalled to the squad on Saturday to replace injured middle-order batsman Sohaib Maqsood. Maqsood was ruled out of the showpiece tournament after suffering a lower back injury in a domestic match earlier this year,…Continue Reading
Singapore will be extending its Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) scheme to eight more countries from October 19, allowing travellers who are fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 to enter the city-state without having to serve quarantine, media reports quoting the civil aviation authority said on Saturday. Fully vaccinated travellers from Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands,…Continue Reading
Delhi University’s Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College on Saturday released its second cut-off list with the marks required for BSc(Honours) Computer Science going down by 1.5 per cent. The cut-off for the course in the first list was pegged at 100 per cent but there were no applications received for the course in the first list.…Continue Reading
No. 4 Penn State at No. 3 Iowa might not be the college football headliner we anticipated in Week 6, but it is nonetheless the second top-five clash of the season with plenty of Big Ten championship and national playoff implications.There is no trophy associated with this rivalry, but these two have staged their fair…Continue Reading
Sean Connery said it all about James Bond farewells when the legendary 007 retired from the franchise, only to return 12 years later for the knockoff franchise film titled “Never Say Never Again.”Bond goodbyes can get complicated.Daniel Craig made that clear after his fourth Bond outing, 2015’s “Spectre.” The British actor said he would rather “slit my wrists” than…Continue Reading