Prayers for Karunanidhi
Residents and DMK cadre offer prayers for the speedy recovery of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi at a house on Subramania Pillai Street, Singanallur, in Coimbatore where Mr. Karunanidhi lived during 1945-48. He began his career as a screenplay writer in the Tamil film industry from this house.
3:30 PM
Helicopter crashes in Beijing: China Daily
A crane lifts a helicopter after it crashed in Beijing, China on July 30, 2018. | Photo Credit: Reuters
A hellicopter crashed near a bridge in northern Beijing about 11 a.m. (0300 GMT) on Monday, the official English-language China Daily newspaper said on its website. The paper gave no information beyond identifying the site of the incident, near the Jixiangsi bridge. A video clip of what appeared to be a crashed helicopter was circulating on Chinese social media, such as the Twitter-like Weibo. Reuters could not immediately verify the report or the video clip.
2.30 P.M
MH370 final report offers no new information
MH370 safety investigator-in-charge Kok Soo Chon shows the MH370 safety investigation report booklet to the media after a news conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia | Photo Credit: Reuters
Families of passengers on board missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 said on Monday that an investigation report released to them offered no new findings to explain the plane's mysterious disappearance. The report comes two months after Malaysia called off a privately funded underwater search for the aircraft carrying 239 people that disappeared on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014.
