Trump on Wednesday nominated lawyer and former Justice Department official Christopher Wray as the new FBI director. Mr. Wray, a litigation attorney with law firm King & Spalding in Washington and Atlanta, previously served as assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division from 2003 to 2005. “I will be nominating Christopher A. Wray, a man of […]
» Read moreRumours of alleged sale of plastic rice at some grocery stores caused jitters among the people of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday. Two days after a customer found plastic rice being used in a biryani point in Saroornagar in Hyderabad, another customer, this time from Meerpet, approached the local police on Tuesday claiming that the rice which he bought […]
» Read moreArmed men launched two attacks in Iran’s capital Tehran on Wednesday morning, killing a guard in Parliament and injuring several people in the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini in the southern part of the city, the state media reported. Lawmaker Elias Hazrati said three assailants, one with a pistol and two with AK-47 assault rifles, raided Parliament, according to the state […]
» Read moreAn Army officer and three militants were killed and three soldiers and a civilian injured in an operation against a combined group of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K) in Nagaland on Wednesday. The Army said the civilian, an autorickshaw driver, was killed in the crossfire. Major David Manlum from the […]
» Read moreA trader along with his wife and son was shot dead by unidentified assailants in an apparent robbery attempt in the district, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place on Tuesday night when some persons shot food grain trader Suneel Jaiswal (45), his wife Kamini Jaiswal (42) and son Ritik (14) in Civil Lines locality of the city. Superintendent […]
» Read moreSaudi Arabia today revoked the operating licence of Qatar Airways and ordered the airline’s offices to close within 48 hours, state media reported, as a regional diplomatic crisis escalated. “The General Authority of Civil Aviation has decided to cancel all licenses granted to Qatar Airways and to close all of its offices in the kingdom within 48 hours,” read a […]
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