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Day: November 9, 2020

World News

Not just Kamala, Biden too has Indian link

By Times of India, published by Indeed News Chennai: “I may have relatives in India,” US President-elect Joseph Biden had declared on his maiden visit to Mumbai in 2013, when VP-elect Kamala Harris’s Tamil Nadu connection was not headline news yet. Biden, then serving as VP, was referring to a Mumbai resident who, he said, […]

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Local News

Protesters hit 24 police vehicles, 2 buses

THE DRAWN-OUT protest at Sanam Luang yesterday led to three protesters and a policeman being injured while 24 police vehicles either had their tyres deflated or glass broken, INN News reported this evening (Nov. 9). According to the Erawan Centre two protesters suffered cuts from entanglement with barbed wire while one developed pain after being […]

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Local News

Police admit firing ‘diluted’ tear gas at protesters on Oct. 16

TWO police officers who today (Nov. 9) who testified to the Senate Human Rights, Freedom and Consumer Protection Committee admitted that diluted tear gas was used to break up the demonstration at Pathumwan intersection on October 16, Sanook.com and Prachachart.net reported. Senator Somchai Sawangkarn presided over this committee’s meeting to follow up on the issues […]

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Local News

PM: Nothing known about protest leaders seeking political asylum in US

PRIME Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said at 11.40 a.m. today (Nov. 9) that he does not have any information about four protest leaders seeking asylum in US having only read about it on social media with the identity of the writer also not known, Siam Rath newspaper reported. Speaking at Government House after chairing National Strategy […]

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