Day: November 4, 2020

7-yr jail term for man over harassment, suicide of girl

11:43 pm November 4, 2020

Bulandshahr: A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district sentenced a man on Wednesday to seven years of imprisonment in the case of suicide by a 17-year-old girl. The district court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the accused who was harassing the student. On August 2 last year, a resident Khurja area had […]

Flash of luck: Astronomers find cosmic radio burst source

11:39 pm November 4, 2020

San Francisco: Aflash of luck helped astronomers solve a cosmic mystery: What causes powerful but fleeting radio bursts that zip and zigzag through the universe? Scientists have known about these energetic pulses — called fast radio bursts — for about 13 years and have seen them coming from outside our galaxy, which makes it harder […]

Denmark wants to cull all farmed minks over COVID fears

11:31 pm November 4, 2020

Copenhagen: Denmark’s prime minister said Wednesday that the government wants to cull all minks in Danish farms, to minimise the risk of them re-transmitting the new coronavirus to humans. Mette Frederiksen said a report from a government agency that maps the coronavirus in Denmark has shown a mutation in the virus found in 12 people in the northern part of the […]

Dems head toward House control, but lose incumbents to GOP

11:26 pm November 4, 2020

Washington: Disappointed Democrats drove Wednesday toward extending their control of the House for two more years but with a potentially shrunken majority as they lost at least seven incumbents and failed to oust any Republican lawmakers in initial returns. By midmorning on Wednesday, Democrats’ only gains were two North Carolina seats vacated by GOP incumbents after a court-ordered remapping […]

12-year-old boy charred to death in J-K's Samba

Delhi govt school guest teacher attempts self-immolation accusing principal of harassment

11:22 pm November 4, 2020

New Delhi: A guest teacher at a Delhi government school allegedly tried to immolate himself on Wednesday, accusing the principal of harassment, police said. Thirty-year-old Rahul Malik, a resident of Vasant Vihar in Haryana’s Palwal, consumed some poisonous substance and tried to set himself ablaze using petrol at the school in southeast Delhi’s Jaitpur area, […]