Rajendra Shukla said that the BJP in the center and in the state has brought back thousands of migrant workers. Bhopal: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Madhya Pradesh minister Rajendra Shukla was criticized by the opposition after asking actor Sonu Sood on Twitter to help migrant workers in his area who were trapped in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Sood has …
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VFA: Philippines Says US Military Access Agreement Won’t End Amid South China Sea Tensions
President Rodrigo Duterte had decided to retain the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) “in light of political and other developments in the region,” Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said Tuesday in a post on social media. The agreement, signed in 1988, gives US military planes and vessels free entry to the Philippines and relaxes visa restrictions for US military personnel. …
Read More »Senate panel passes legislation requiring campaigns to report foreign electoral aid
The committee adopted the measure behind closed doors in a classified environment, adding it to the Intelligence Authorization Act, a policy for establishing bills for the intelligence community. The amendment was offered by Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the committee’s top Democrat and author of independent legislation, and Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine. He went 8-7, with Collins joining …
Read More »Maharashtra records highest peak in single day in coronavirus deaths
Coronavirus: The total number of deaths in Mumbai is now 1,417 Mumbai Maharashtra reported the highest single-day peak in coronavirus deaths today with 122 deaths, bringing the total number of deaths in the state to 2,587. The total number of positive cases in the state now stands at 74,860. The state, home to the financial and entertainment capital of India, …
Read More »Maesaiah Thabane: The wife of the former Prime Minister of Lesotho was arrested again for the murder of the husband’s ex-wife
Thabane will remain in custody until June 16, after her bail was revoked on charges that due process was not followed during her first court appearance in February when she was charged with murder, the police commissioner told CNN. Holomo Molibeli. Molibeli said the former first lady is back behind bars on a technicality because the prosecution was not allowed …
Read More »Migrants pull the chain to jump off the Shramik train in Assam to avoid quarantine
A passenger was arrested at the Hojai market after he disappeared from the train (File) Guwahati 61 people have been arrested and two separate cases filed by the Railway and Assam Police after migrant workers, returning aboard a special Shramik train from Mumbai, pulled the emergency chain to jump off the train to avoid the quarantine period. The train was …
Read More »Ben and Jerry’s statement about white supremacy is so extraordinary. This is why
In a forceful statement posted on the company’s website on Tuesday night, Ben & Jerry’s describes the George Floyd’s death, an unarmed black man, at the hands of a white police officer as a result of “inhuman police brutality that is perpetuated by a culture of white supremacy.” “What happened to George Floyd was not the result of a bad …
Read More »Washington Post: Trump tried to register to vote in Florida last year using the White House speech
Trump has demonized voting by mail as fraught with fraud and an attempt to sway elections toward Democrats, claims that are not based on fact, as governors seek to expand remote voting amid the coronavirus pandemic. Trump himself voted by mail in the Florida presidential primary contest earlier this year, even though he avoided several opportunities to vote in person. …
Read More »Madeleine McCann’s investigation leads UK police to new suspect
McCann went missing while sleeping in his family’s holiday apartment on May 3, 2007, in a case that has since attracted media attention in the UK. She has never been found, and no one ever been accused for his disappearance. The new suspect is a German man currently imprisoned in Germany on an unrelated matter, the UK metropolitan police force …
Read More »Rod Rosenstein’s Evidence: Former MP AG Recognizes Problems With Russia’s FBI Investigation
Rosenstein testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the first hearing of Senate Republicans pointing to the origins of the FBI investigation in Russia. Senate Judiciary President Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and close ally of Trump, lobbied Rosenstein to determine whether Mueller should have been named, given that no conspiracy was finally found between the Trump team …
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