Day: August 8, 2020

Police: 10 killed in apartment fire in the Czech Republic

11:58 pm August 8, 2020

Prague: At least 10 people have been killed in a fire in an apartment building in northeastern Czech Republic, police said Saturday. They said the fire hit the 11th floor of the 13-story building in the afternoon in the town of Bohumin. Firefighters said several people were trying to escape from the building by jumping from […]

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FIR: HC relief for one Sushant sister, not for another

Sushant Singh Rajput case: Mumbai police opposes CBI probe in SC, says impartial investigation being done

11:52 pm August 8, 2020

New Delhi: The Mumbai police on Saturday opposed a CBI probe in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, telling the Supreme Court that it was carrying out a professional and impartial investigation in the matter. Rajput, 34, was found hanging from the ceiling of his apartment in suburban Bandra in Mumbai on June 14. In an affidavit filed before the top court, in response to a petition […]

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Uttarakhand flood:French President Macron expresses solidarity with India

Macron says conference to bring donors together

11:50 pm August 8, 2020

Beirut: French President Emmanuel Macron’s office says an international conference on Sunday is aimed at bringing donors together to provide emergency aid and equipment to the Lebanese population. Co-hosted by Macron and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the video conference will see the participation of U.S. President Donald Trump, Britain Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Jordan King Abdullah II, Egypt President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and other […]

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Kozhikode plane crash: Co-pilot’s family mourns loss, pregnant wife unaware of his death

11:48 pm August 8, 2020

Mathura: Panic gripped Tulsiram Sharma’s family in Govind Nagar here when they learnt about a plane crash at the Kozhikode airport in Kerala on Friday night. Sharma’s son, Akhilesh Sharma, 32, was the co-pilot of an Air India Express aircraft that was bringing back to Kozhikode Indians from Dubai as part of the government’s Vande Bharat mission. On Saturday morning, a call from a relative, who had […]

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AIIMS forensic team report lacks credibility, says Rajput's family lawyer

Rhea’s case transfer plea ‘infructuous’ as CBI has taken over probe: Sushant’s father tells SC

11:40 pm August 8, 2020

New Delhi: Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s father told the Supreme Court on Saturday that actress Rhea Chakraborty‘s plea for transfer of the FIR, in which she has been accused of abetting his son’s suicide, from Patna to Mumbai is now “infructuous” after the CBI took over the case. In his elaborate 27-page response affidavit, Rajput’s father Krishna Kishore Singh opposed Rhea’s plea and […]

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