Day: January 28, 2020

44-yr-old Coronavirus: NDA suspends large gatherings, expeditionsgaon resident tests positive of coronavirus

Hong Kong halts trains from mainland China as virus spreads

7:27 pm January 28, 2020

Beijing: Hong Kong’s leader has announced that all rail links to mainland China will be cut starting Friday as fears grow about the spread of a new virus. Chief Executive Carrie Lam said Tuesday that both the high-speed rail station and the regular train station would be closed. China’s death toll from a new viral […]

ASI assaulted in Rajasthan's Chittorgarh

7 held in Telangana for abduction, rape of tribal woman

3:56 pm January 28, 2020

Hyderabad: Seven people have been arrested in Khammam district in connection with the alleged abduction and rape of a tribal woman, police said on Tuesday. The accused, all aged between 24-26, were rounded up on Monday. The seven had planned the gang-rape, the police said. Accordingly, on the night of January 24, two of them […]

Fresh snowfall in Uttarakhand

3:52 pm January 28, 2020

Dehradun: The higher reaches of Uttarakhand received fresh snowfall while lower areas were lashed by rain on Tuesday. The skiing slopes of Auli, the Himalayan shrines of Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib, Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve and Kedarnath Musk Deer Sanctuary spread over Chamoli and Rudraprayag districts were covered by thick white sheets of snow. The […]

Olive Ridley mass nesting likely on Odisha's Gahirmatha Beach within fortnight: Official

Nineteen fishermen nabbed in Gahirmatha marine sanctuary

3:46 pm January 28, 2020

Kendrapara (Odisha): In a mid-sea interception, forest personnel have arrested 19 fishermen for alleged unlawful activities in Gahirmatha marine sanctuary here, an official said. Two trawlers, with at least 35 quintals of sea fish, were also seized by the patrolling unit near Habelikhati coast in the protected sanctuary, the forest official said. Prohibition on sea […]

NASA rover attempting most difficult Martian touchdown yet

New mission to take first peek at Sun’s poles: NASA

3:43 pm January 28, 2020

Washington: NASA, in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), is launching a new spacecraft next month to snap the first pictures of the Sun’s north and south poles, the US space agency announced on Tuesday. The Solar Orbiter spacecraft will have its first opportunity to launch from Cape Canaveral in the US on February […]