He had threatened to ask party workers to play Hanuman Chalisa on loudspeakers outside mosques He had threatened to ask party workers to play Hanuman Chalisa on loudspeakers outside mosques Days after he threatened to ask party workers to play Hanuman Chalisa on loudspeakers outside mosques and facing severe criticism for attempting to disturb social…Continue Reading
In my 22 years of working here, never did I see the meat market being shut because of such developments, said worker at a meat vend In my 22 years of working here, never did I see the meat market being shut because of such developments, said worker at a meat vend Mohamed Nazim, a…Continue Reading
An inner ‘pragaram’ of Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple in Chennai. | Photo Credit: K.V. Srinivasan Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Minister P.K. Sekarbabu on Wednesday inaugurated a newly-constructed vahana mandapam at the Kapaleeswarar temple in Mylapore. It was built at a cost of ₹25 lakh. The structure to keep the small temple cars and vahanams has…Continue Reading
A total of 30 fresh infections of COVID-19 were reported in the State from among the 22,070 persons people who were tested. However, no deaths due to infection were recorded in the past 24 hours.As many as 25 districts did not report any new case of COVID-19 infection on Wednesday whereas seven districts logged at…Continue Reading
Washington Post Pentagon and national security reporter Karoun Demirjian explains the difficulties of deciding which weapons to send Ukraine. (Video: Joshua Carroll/The Washington Post, Photo: The Washington Post)Yesterday at 1:09 a.m. EDT|Updated today at 8:35 p.m. EDTYesterday at 1:09 a.m. EDT|Updated today at 8:35 p.m. EDTOfficials in Ukraine began urging people living in the eastern…Continue Reading
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly will vote Thursday on whether to suspend Russia from the U.N.’s premier human rights body. The move was initiated by the United States in response to the discovery of hundreds of bodies after Russian troops withdrew from towns near the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, sparking calls for its forces…Continue Reading
John A. Bushnell, a career Foreign Service officer who played a prominent diplomatic role during the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama that ousted strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega, died March 19 at a hospital in Leesburg, Va. He was 88.The cause was a massive heart attack, said his son John M. Bushnell.Mr. Bushnell served for more…Continue Reading
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador’s congress, pushing further in the government’s dramatic crackdown on gangs, has authorized prison sentences of 10 to 15 years for news media that reproduce or disseminate messages from the gangs, alarming press freedom groups.The vote late Tuesday was the latest in a flurry of legislative action against the…Continue Reading
Federal prosecutors have charged a Russian oligarch who supported separatists in Ukraine with sanctions violations for trying to secretly acquire and run pro-Kremlin media outlets across Europe, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday.The announcement came at a news conference in which Garland and other top Justice Department officials touted actions against Russia, including the disruption…Continue Reading
San Francisco County has the highest COVID-19 case rate of any other county in California with a seven-day average of 13 cases per 100,000 residents, state data showed on Tuesday. By comparison, Los Angeles is reporting 5 cases per 100,000 residents. And San Francisco isn’t the only Bay Area spot sitting at the top of…Continue Reading
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