Day: October 23, 2020

Nagorno-Karabakh fighting rages as US hosts talks

8:16 pm October 23, 2020

Nagorno-Karabakh : Heavy fighting raged Friday over Nagorno-Karabakh even as top diplomats from Armenia and Azerbaijan traveled to Washington for negotiations on settling the neighboring countries’ decades-long conflict. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s scheduled talks with Armenia and Azerbaijan’s foreign ministers follow two failed Russian attempts to broker a cease-fire in the worst outbreak […]

Biden admin rolls back Trump-era citizenship test, reverts to 2008 version

Trump, Biden lawyer up, brace for White House legal battle

8:05 pm October 23, 2020

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s and Democratic rival Joe Biden’s campaigns are assembling armies of powerful lawyers for the possibility that the race for the White House is decided not at the ballot box but in court. They have been engaging in a lawyer’s version of tabletop war games, churning out draft pleadings, briefs and memos […]

Plea in HC to direct CBSE affiliated schools to publish docs on criteria to calculate class 10 marks

HC stays Delhi govt decision asking 12 DU colleges to pay staff salaries forms students fund

7:52 pm October 23, 2020

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday stayed the decision of the AAP government asking 12 Delhi University colleges, fully funded by it, to pay outstanding salaries to staffers from the Students Society Fund. Justice Navin Chawla passed the order on a plea by Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) which said the students fund cannot be used […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

UP govt seeks list of ‘non-performing’ employees aged 50 and above

7:49 pm October 23, 2020

Lucknow: Acting on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s decision to compulsorily retire non-performing employees completing 50 years of age, a letter has been sent to all departmental heads in the state police to provide a list of the same to the DGP headquarters at the earliest. A government order to this effect was issued by Chief […]

Rajasthan: Man rapes minor stepdaughter, arrested

CBI books a man for selling child sexual abuse material through messaging app

7:46 pm October 23, 2020

New Delhi: The CBI has booked a person for allegedly selling child sexual abuse material for Rs 250 per customer through messaging application Telegram, officials said on Friday. The special unit of the CBI on “Online Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Prevention/ Investigation” carried out searches at the premises of the accused in Delhi. The […]