‘Act soon or get blacklisted’: FATF warns Pak on terror funding

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on Friday warned Pakistan it faced the possibility of being added to the watchdog’s ‘black list’ and face greater scrutiny of all transactions in its financial system if it fails to fully implement an action plan to counter terror financing by June. A statement issued by the multilateral watchdog’s…

No one should be scared of CAA: Uddhav Thackeray after meeting PM Modi

No one should be scared of CAA: Uddhav Thackeray after meeting PM Modi After meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday assured that no one should be scared of CAA as it is about giving Citizenship and not taking it. Thackeray along with his son Aaditya Thackeray met…

China’s coronavirus vaccine to be ready for trials by April, says minister

The earliest vaccine for the coronavius that has killed more than 2,000 in China alone will be submitted for clinical trials around late April, China’s Vice Science and Technology Minister Xu Nanping said on Friday. Xu made the remarks during a press briefing. Zhou Qi, deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, also told…

China withholds permission to India for delivering relief in Wuhan

New Delhi/Beijing: China has decided to withhold permission to a special Indian flight that was to deliver medical and relief supplies and evacuate remaining Indians from Wuhan, the epicentre of Covid-19 epidemic. Top sources told IANS that Beijing has not responded to India’s “goodwill gesture for some odd reason”. The behaviour of the Chinese authorities is…

KSRTC bus tragedy: A change in plan cost Gopika her life

KOCHI: TK Varada Devi, who works as private secretary to High Court Judge Justice Devan Ramachandran, had approached him on Wednesday evening with a request. “Sir, I will be a bit late tomorrow morning as my daughter is arriving from Bengaluru,” she said. And the judge readily granted permission. On Thursday morning Gokulanatha Kaimal, a…