Author: DA Correspondent

Hong Kong protesters burn flag, police fire pepper spray

6:59 pm September 21, 2019

HONG KONG: Protesters in Hong Kong burned a Chinese flag and police fired pepper spray Saturday in renewed clashes over anti-government grievances. Police accused some protesters of throwing gasoline bombs after a march by several thousand people in Tuen Mun, an outlying district in the Chinese territory’s northwest. The event was relatively small compared with […]

Army commander Lt Gen Ranbir Singh reaches out to locals in south Kashmir

Army commander reaches out to locals in south Kashmir

4:09 pm September 21, 2019

Jammu: Northern Army commander Lt Gen Ranbir Singh has reached out to the locals in south Kashmir, considered to be the hotbed of militancy, with a message that the army and the government are working towards restoring peace and ensuring overall development of the region. During the interaction with a select group of community leaders […]

Demonstrators march in Hong Kong in new weekend of protest

3:58 pm September 21, 2019

Hong Kong: Protesters marched through an outlying district of Hong Kong on Saturday in a renewed outpouring of grievances against the Chinese territory’s government. The march by several thousand people in Tuen Mun on Hong Kong’s northwest was relatively small compared with previous weekends. There was no violence, in contrast to previous protests that included […]

Grief in Uttarakhand slum after hooch tragedy

3:39 pm September 21, 2019

Dehradun: Pathariya Peer basti in the city is cloaked in an uneasy silence, a day after six persons died in the slum colony after consuming illicit liquor. The silence is broken at times only by loud wails of the relatives and acquaintances who mourn those killed in the tragedy. The slum residents are visiting the […]

Trudeau says regrets wearing 'unacceptable' blackface makeup

Trudeau’s support holds after apology for wearing brownface

5:17 am September 21, 2019

TORONTO: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged Friday that he let down his supporters — and all Canadians of color — by appearing years ago in brownface and blackface. Yet the scandal’s fallout may be limited in a country without the harsh and still-divisive racial history of the neighboring United States. “I hurt people who […]