Day: December 8, 2020

Man’s body removed from tree three days after he hanged self

11:21 pm December 8, 2020

Hyderabad: The body of a man, a suspect in a case of a woman’s death, who allegedly hanged himself from a tree in a village of Nizamabad district was removed on Tuesday three days after he died by suicide,police said. A group of villagers had been resisting police attempts to bring down the body seeking […]

President arrives in Odisha on a 3-day visit

5-member Oppn delegation to meet President on farm bills on Wednesday

10:56 pm December 8, 2020

New Delhi : A delegation of opposition parties will meet President Ram Nath Kovind on December 9 over concerns on the three new agriculture laws enacted by the Centre in September and to seek their repeal, senior leaders said Tuesday. CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said that the five-member delegation – Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, […]

WB Guv summons chief secy, DGP over BJP worker’s death

10:51 pm December 8, 2020

Kolkata: Amid the ongoing political tussle over the death of a BJP worker in Siliguri, Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday summoned chief secretary and state police DGP and said their ”non-responsive stance tantamount to shredding all canons of governance”. Clashes had broken out between BJP activists and the police in Siliguri on Monday during a rally, […]

Minimum temperatures hover above normal in Haryana, Punjab

8:37 pm December 8, 2020

Chandigarh: The minimum temperatures in Haryana and Punjab hovered above normal limits on Tuesday with Chandigarh, the joint capital of the two states, recording a low of 11.5 degrees Celsius, the meteorological department said. In Haryana, Ambala recorded a low of 10.3 degrees Celsius, up two notches, while Karnal recorded a low of 9.8 degrees Celsius, one notch above […]

20 more die of Covid in Rajasthan, 1,604 more infected

8:35 pm December 8, 2020

Jaipur: A total of 20 more people died of Covid-19 in Rajasthan on Tuesday, taking the pandemic death toll in the state to 2,468, a Health Department bulletin said. The state also reported 1,604 new cases on the day, taking the total number of coronavirus-infected people to 2,84,116 in the state with 20,875 of them […]