Author: DA Correspondent

Biden to meet Putin in Geneva on June 16: White House

Russia offers to mediate in Syria, asserting its role

9:07 pm October 16, 2019

CEYLANPINAR, Turkey: Russia offered Wednesday to mediate a resolution in northern Syria, further asserting Moscow’s role as a regional force, ahead of a mission by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence to press Turkey for a cease-fire in its attack on Syrian Kurdish fighters. Ahead of talks with Pence, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defied U.S. […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Macron and Merkel try to showcase unity as Brexit looms

9:01 pm October 16, 2019

TOULOUSE, France: President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Angela Merkel sought Wednesday to demonstrate the solidity of the French-German relationship at a meeting in southern France, one day before a key EU summit that may approve a divorce deal with Britain. They started with a visit to the headquarters of plane-maker Airbus, widely seen as a […]

Reserve Bank imposes Rs 2 cr penalty on SBI

SBI Life Q2 net falls 48 pc to Rs 130 cr

9:25 pm October 15, 2019

New Delhi: SBI Life Insurance on Tuesday reported over 48 per cent decline in its net profit at Rs 129.84 crore in the second quarter ended September of the current fiscal year (2019-20). The life insurer had registered a net profit of Rs 250.53 crore in the corresponding July-September period of previous fiscal 2018-19. The […]

SAD leader claims four Sikh women were forcibly converted to Islam in J&K

Auto-driver gets life imprisonment for raping teenage daughter

9:22 pm October 15, 2019

Hyderabad: A Hyderabad court sentenced a man to life imprisonment on Tuesday for repeatedly raping his 14-year-old daughter. First Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Suneetha Kunchala found the 42-year-old man, an auto-rickshaw driver, guilty under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The judge also found him guilty under IPC Section 506 (criminal intimidation) […]

Muslims, Jews targeted as hate crimes surge in Britain

9:18 pm October 15, 2019

London: Muslims and Jews were among the religious groups most targeted in the UK in 2018-19 as the country registered a 10 per cent spike in hate crimes over the previous year, according to official government data released on Tuesday. The UK Home Office data found that there were a record 103,379 hate crime offences […]