Day: June 23, 2019

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

Life in subcontinent through eyes of women writers

2:16 pm June 23, 2019

New Delhi: A new collection of short fiction by women writers explores how life in the subcontinent is so unerringly uniform and identical that it is difficult to draw lines. The sufferings and celebrations of humdrum life are so unmistakably similar across the region that the political divisions and the harshness of borders seem unreal. […]

Turkey vows to expand anti-PKK operations in northern Iraq

Istanbul votes in test for Erdogan and Turkish democracy

2:13 pm June 23, 2019

Istanbul: Istanbul went back to the polls on Sunday in a re-run of the mayoral election that has become a test of Turkish democracy as well as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s continued popularity at a time of economic trouble. Election authorities annulled the first vote in March after Erdogan’s party alleged corruption in a count […]

Trump denies knowing NY woman accusing him of sexual assault

2:08 pm June 23, 2019

Washington: President Donald Trump says a New York-based advice columnist who claims he sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s made a “totally false accusation” against him and he denied knowing the woman. “I have no idea who this woman is,” Trump said Saturday as he left the White […]

Six Indians arrested for smuggling gold in Sri Lanka

2:06 pm June 23, 2019

Colombo: Six Indians have been arrested by the Sri Lankan authorities for allegedly attempting to smuggle gold worth Rs 30 lakhs to India, a media report said on Sunday. The accused were arrested at the Bandaranaike International Airport here and had concealed the gold biscuits in their luggages, pockets of the trousers they were wearing […]

North Korea fires ballistic missile ahead of nuclear talks

North Korea leader receives ‘excellent’ letter from Trump

2:02 pm June 23, 2019

Seoul: President Donald Trump sent North Korean leader Kim Jong Un an “excellent” letter, the North’s state-run news agency reported Sunday, quoting Kim as saying he would “seriously contemplate it.” The White House declined to confirm that Trump had sent a letter to Kim. It comes as nuclear talks between the US and North Korea […]