Day: October 26, 2020

A Delhi court today awarded three-year jail term to former Union Minister Dilip Ray in a coal scam case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999

The Customs Department has reportedly said in a secret report that a legislator was also involved in the gold smuggling racket that was busted in Kerala in July.

A Chennai-based jeweller has offered a ‘Pandian Kondai’ made from three kilograms of gold to Lord Parthasarathy of Triplicane in the city.

Malaysia’s king on Sunday rejected a proposal by embattled Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to declare a state of emergency to fight a new outbreak of the coronavirus.

Afghan security forces have killed Abu Muhsin al-Masri, a senior al Qaeda leader who was on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Most Wanted Terrorists list, Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) said in a tweet late on Saturday.

A top official of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that Pakistan could be the next polio-free country, after years of continued efforts to eradicate the crippling disease.

While hitting the campaign trial for Democratic president nominee Joe Biden, former US President Barack Obama slammed his successor Donald Trump’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, which is currently the worst-hit with the world’s highest number of confirmed cases and deaths.

Amidst expectations that Rajinikanth would float his own political party soon, the actor today held discussions with Puthiya Needhi Katchi chief A C Shanmugham at his Poes Garden residence here today.

All citizens of India will get free Covid-19 vaccine, Union Minister Pratap Sarangi has said. He has said this amidst demand by the Opposition for free vaccine for all and not only in poll-bound Bihar as announced by the BJP.