Day: September 4, 2020

MP: Farmer hangs self, kin blame crop destruction due to rains

11:27 pm September 4, 2020

Niwadi: A farmer allegedly committed suicide in Chandeli Toria village in Niwadi in Madhya Pradesh on Friday, police said. Pyarelal Yadav (60) was found hanging from a tree on his farm plot, said Prithvipur police station in-charge Narendra Tripathi. While the deceased’s son Roop Singh said the cause could have been destruction of crops on […]

Delhi records highest spike in cases in 69 days; no chance of another lockdown, says official

11:23 pm September 4, 2020

New Delhi: Delhi recorded 2,914 fresh COVID-19 cases on Friday, the highest single-day spike here in 69 days, as the tally mounted to over 1.85 lakh, while a senior official claimed that there was no chance of another lockdown as it “wasn’t an alarming surge”. This is the fourth successive day in September when over […]

Noida: 3 held for duping people on pretext of life insurance

11:19 pm September 4, 2020

Noida: Three men have been arrested for duping people of money on the pretext of providing them life insurance policies in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida, police said on Friday. The accused were held on Thursday near Sector 37 roundabout by a joint team of Sector 39 police station and the Cyber Cell, the police said. They have been identified as Durgesh […]

Rajnath Singh holds talks with Chinese Defence minister in Moscow amid border tension in Ladakh

11:17 pm September 4, 2020

Moscow: Amid heightened border tension in eastern Ladakh, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday held talks in Moscow with his Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe. Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar and Indian Ambassador to Russia D B Venkatesh Varma are part of the Indian delegation at the talks that began at around 9:30 PM (IST) at a prominent hotel in the Russian capital. It is the first highest level face-to-face meeting between […]

German prosecutors to charge mom with murder of 5 children

11:11 pm September 4, 2020

Berlin: German prosecutors said Friday they will charge a 27-year-old woman with murder after five of her young children were found dead at their home in the western city of Solingen. Heribert Kaune-Gebhardt, a prosecutor in nearby Wuppertal, told reporters that postmortem examinations on the dead children showed signs of sedation and suffocation, but it was […]