US polls: Trump, Biden race to woo voters in final hours
Washington: President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden were making a last ditch efforts on Monday to convince undecided voters of their plans and policies on the final day of the campaign in critical battleground states, with polls indicating that the race for the White House could be headed for a photo-finish. The […]
Biden promises curbing authoritarianism
Fayetteville (US): Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said that if elected, he will convene a global summit of democracies in the first year of his presidency to counter the “rising authoritarianism” in the world and address issues of election security and human rights. Biden accused President Donald Trump of “embracing” every autocrat in the […]
Winter means more caution
As the winter season is here the task ahead of us to control the spread of covid-19 has become all the more difficult and necessary as well. We are fast approaching one lakh mark on positive cases and the deaths due to covid-19 too are a reality. Since the numbers are pretty high given our […]
France and Islam
Asad Mirza The French attacks on Islam and its Prophet are nothing new, we only have to peep a little bit into the past, to find the roots of this hatred. The recent storm over the inflammatory statements against the Holy prophet and Islam itself, by the French President Macron has set the Muslim world […]
The fragility of life
N J Ravi Chander When a tiny tot, the pictures of people on the obituary page always piqued my curiosity. I observed that my maternal grandfather, M Dharmalingam, scanned the page every morning. Whenever a familiar face kicked the bucket, and his/her picture appeared in the newspaper, the sad news would travel to those in […]
Stop promising government jobs
Today, all the state governments are claiming to provide employment to maximum number of youth, while a strange statement of the Chief Minister of Goa has come out with grave concern. Goa CM Pramod Sawant on Saturday said that even if God himself became the Chief Minister, he would not be able to provide government […]
Forest department retrieves 500 kanals of forest land
Sopore: The Kamraj forest division retrieved around 500 kanals of forest land which was illegally occupied by the locals and bhang cultivators at Trimukhan top of Kamraj forest division in north Kashmir, officials said. Zahid Moghul, DFO Kamraj Forest Division while heading the drive said that a joint team of forest territorial ranges, police and […]
