Day: December 20, 2020

Punjab farmer commits suicide

6:59 pm December 20, 2020

Chandigarh: A 22-year-old Punjab farmer, who returned from a protest site near Delhi border, has allegedly committed suicide after consuming some poisonous substance, the police said on Sunday. Gurlabh Singh, a resident of Dayalpura Mirza village of Bathinda district, had been part of the protest near the Delhi border. He had returned to his village […]

2 held for raping minor girl in UP’s Balrampur

6:57 pm December 20, 2020

Balrampur (UP): Two people were arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl in Utraula Police Station area, an official said on Sunday. According to the victim’s mother, the accused took away her daughter on Thursday evening after luring her. They then raped her, police said. However, the girl managed to escape and informed her family […]

Leopardess found dead in MP, electrocution suspected

6:53 pm December 20, 2020

Seoni: A leopardess has allegedly died of electrocution at the Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Madhya Pradesh’s Seoni district, an official said on Sunday. The feline’s carcass was found on Saturday in Gandatola beat of the reserve’s Rukhad buffer zone, PTR’s field director Vikram Singh Parihar said. He said no evidence of hunting was found […]

UP: Youth gets life term for raping teenage girl

6:50 pm December 20, 2020

Lalitpur (UP): A POCSO court here sentenced a youth to life imprisonment in connection with the rape of a minor girl four years ago, a government counsel said on Sunday. Assistant District Government Advocate Lakhanlal Rajput said that on Saturday judge Nirbhay Prakash of the additional district and sessions court (POCSO) sentenced the youth to […]

Italy enters strict 3-day lockdown over Easter

Pandemic exposes vulnerability of Italy’s ‘new poor’

2:32 pm December 20, 2020

Milan: The coronavirus pandemic did not produce Elena Simone’s first budgetary rough patch.The 49-year-old single mother found herself out of the job market when the 2008 global financial crisis hit Italy and never fully got back in, but she created a patchwork of small jobs that provided for herself and the youngest of her three children. That […]