Day: December 19, 2020

Fraud case: ED gets custody of Amrapali Group official

10:33 pm December 19, 2020

Lucknow: A special Enforcement Directorate court on Saturday granted the central agency four-day custody of Amrapali Group chief finance officer Chandra Wadhwa for interrogation in a multi-crore fraud case The remand period began on Saturday evening. Special Judge D K Sharma passed the order on an application moved by the central agency. Enforcement Directorate’s counsel […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Maha: Two Pune students discover 6 preliminary asteroid

10:22 pm December 19, 2020

Pune: Two students from a school in Lohegaon in Pune have discovered six preliminary asteroids in the Kalam Centre Asteroid Search Campaign organized by Kalam Centre and the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC). In a release issued on Saturday, the Vikhe Patil School said Arya Pulate and Shreya Waghmare discovered the asteroids, adding that all […]

One new COVID-19 case in Mizoram, tally at 4,428

COVID: 20 deaths, 439 fresh virus cases in Punjab

10:17 pm December 19, 2020

Chandigarh: Twenty more people died from coronavirus in Punjab on Saturday as 439 fresh cases pushed the state’s infection count to 1,62,705, a medical bulletin said. So far, 5,189 people have succumbed to the infection in Punjab. There are 5,837 active cases in the state as of now, the bulletin said. Ludhiana reported 63 new […]

Delhi: Four dead, 2 injured in factory roof collapse

10:13 pm December 19, 2020

New Delhi: Four labourers died and two others were injured after the roof of a factory collapsed in west Delhi’s Khayala on Saturday, officials said. The structure, which was being used as a motor winding factory, is located at Vishnu Garden area in Khayala. The Fire Department received a call about the incident around 10 […]

Haryana records 13 more COVID-19 deaths, 590 new cases

10:08 pm December 19, 2020

Chandigarh: The COVID-19 death toll in Haryana rose to 2,816 on Saturday with 13 more, while 590 new cases pushed the infection tally to 2,57,067, a state health department bulletin said. The new fatalities include three from Yamunanagar and two each from Sonipat, Ambala and Jhajjar. Among the districts which reported a big spike in […]