Day: December 19, 2020

Maha: Woman rescued from flat after fire

7:28 pm December 19, 2020

Thane: A 46-year-old woman was rescued by the fire brigade personnel after a blaze broke out in her flat in Maharashtra’s Thane city in the early hours of Saturday, officials said. The incident occurred around 4.50 am on the third floor flat of an apartment in Vartak Nagar locality, they said. “Due to the fire, […]

2 held under anti-conversion law released

2:35 pm December 19, 2020

Moradabad: Two brothers who were arrested earlier this month under the anti-conversion law were released on Saturday following an order by an Uttar Pradesh court. The Muslim man and his brother were arrested on December 4 after they visited the registrar’s office in Moradabad to record his marriage to a Hindu woman, whose family filed a complaint. A video purportedly showed Bajrang […]

China to inoculate frontline workers first with COVID-19 vaccines

2:33 pm December 19, 2020

Beijing: China will begin its COVID-19 inoculation program by first vaccinating some key priority groups, including those involved in medical treatment and disease control, within the winter-spring period, before starting a mass roll-out, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Saturday. The vaccination program will also cover those who plan to work or study in […]

HM’s remark against custodial torture, a welcome move

Get over politics of regionalism: Amit Shah

2:28 pm December 19, 2020

Midnapore (WB): Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday that revolutionary Khudiram Bose is as much a pride for the whole of India as he is of Bengal, hitting out at those indulging in “narrow” politics of regionalism. Garlanding the statue of Bose at the freedom fighter’s ancestral residence here, Shah said that he has […]

Odisha reports 356 COVID-19 cases, 3 more deaths

2:23 pm December 19, 2020

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s COVID-19 caseload on Saturday surged to 3,25,861 after 356 more people tested positive for the infection, while three fresh fatalities pushed the state’s coronavirus death toll to 1,832, a health department official said. The new cases were detected in 26 of the 30 districts of Odisha, with 199 reported from different quarantine centres […]