Day: November 8, 2020

Around 400 new COVID-19 cases in Delhi: Kejriwal

Kejriwal congratulates Delhiites for zero dengue deaths this year

11:38 pm November 8, 2020

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday congratulated the people of the national capital for their active participation in the anti-dengue campaign resulting in zero dengue-related deaths. In the last week of the government’s ’10 Hafte 10 Baje 10 Minute campaign’, he said the participation and support of Delhiites against dengue have set an example by defeating […]

Militant mortar fire kills 8 Afghan civilians, official says

10:58 pm November 8, 2020

Kabul: At least eight Afghan civilians — five children and three women — were killed Sunday when militants fired mortars into eastern Ghazni province’s capital city, a provincial official said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. But Wahidullah Jumazada, a spokesman for the provincial governor, blamed insurgents who he said often fire mortars or rockets toward […]

Biden shores up fragile ‘blue wall’ in industrial north

10:53 pm November 8, 2020

Washington: Joe Biden shored up the Democrats’ “blue wall,” — more sturdily in Michigan, more tenuously in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — to rebuild the party’s path back to the White House. And while The Associated Press had called all three states and their combined 46 Electoral College votes for Biden, the Democrat’s relatively narrow margins there reflect the […]

US President-elect Joe Biden has been a strong proponent of closer India-US ties

10:48 pm November 8, 2020

New Delhi: A strong proponent of closer India-US ties since his days as a senator in the 1970s, US President-elect Joe Biden had played a key role in getting the approval of the Senate for the civil nuclear deal between the two countries in 2008 and even co-sponsored several legislations on countering terrorism. In August […]

Two found hanging from tree in Jammu

10:46 pm November 8, 2020

Jammu: The bodies of a man and a woman were found hanging from a tree on the outskirts of the city here on Sunday, police said. The deceased have been identified as Mangat Ram (30) from Nargali Ghari village in Jammu, and Saraswati (25) of Katghora in Chhattisgarh, a police official said. The bodies were found hanging from the tree with […]