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

US hiring slows for 3rd month in sign of struggling economy

11:29 pm October 2, 2020

Washington: America‘s employers added 661,000 jobs in September, the third straight month of slower hiring and evidence from the final jobs report before the presidential election that the economic recovery has weakened. With September’s hiring gain, the economy has recovered only slightly more than half the 22 million jobs that were wiped out by the […]

Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Trump’s age, health woes raise his risk for COVID-19 illness

9:09 pm October 2, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump has several strikes against him — age, obesity, elevated cholesterol and being male — that could put him at greater risk of becoming seriously ill from the coronavirus infection he disclosed late Thursday. Trump and first lady Melania Trump, who also tested positive, “are both well at this time” and plan to remain at […]

US concerned by China's ongoing attempts to 'intimidate' neighbours: White House

White House ups bid in last-ditch COVID talks with Congress

10:37 pm October 1, 2020

Washington: The White House is backing a $400 per week pandemic jobless benefit and is dangling the possibility of a COVID-19 relief bill above $1.5 trillion as last-ditch, pre-election negotiations hit a critical phase Thursday. The offer by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on unemployment is higher than many Republicans would like in any potential COVID deal with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Significant, possibly […]

US says it will block palm oil from large Malaysian producer

9:53 pm September 30, 2020

Washington: An official from U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday the agency will detain shipments of palm oil and its products from FGV Holdings Berhad in Malaysia after a wide range of labor abuse indicators were found, including physical and sexual violence and forced child labor. The withhold release order will be effective immediately following a yearlong investigation, […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Kansas woman gets life for decapitating ex-boyfriend’s mom

9:45 pm September 30, 2020

Wichita: A Kansas woman has been sentenced to life in prison for decapitating her ex-boyfriend’s mother with a pair of kitchen knives. Rachael Hilyard, 38, of Wichita, was sentenced Tuesday in the 2017 death of 63-year-old Micki Davis, The Wichita Eagle reported. Hilyard apologized at the hearing, which several of Davis’ family members attended in […]