Day: December 22, 2020

Transgender person found dead in Goa; one held

12:56 pm December 22, 2020

Panaji: A transgender person has been found dead in North Goa district and police suspect he was murdered, an official said on Tuesday. One person has been arrested in this connection. The decomposed body of the victim, who hailed from Pune in neighbouring Maharashtra, was found in a house in Baga village on Sunday, a […]

Hyderabad man ‘shot at’ in US, his family claims

12:51 pm December 22, 2020

Hyderabad: A 43-year-old man from Hyderabad was fired upon and injured in Chicago in the United States, his family members said here on Monday. Mohammed Mujeebuddin suffered bullet injuries in the early hours of Monday and has been admitted to a hospital in a very critical condition, his wife said in a letter to Telangana […]

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

UP: 17-year-old girl sustains burns in attack

12:44 pm December 22, 2020

Bahraich (UP): A 17-year-old girl sustained burns on her head and right hand on Monday when a middle-aged man allegedly threw an inflammable material on her, police said. Action will be initiated against the accused under the National Security Act (NSA), Additional Superintendent of Police Gyananjay Singh said. Singh said the incident took place when […]

First batch of COVID-19 vaccines arrives in Singapore

12:39 pm December 22, 2020

Singapore: Singapore has received its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines, making it the first country in Asia to take the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech as it plans to inoculate its 5.7 million people by the third quarter of 2021. The first batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine landed in Singapore on Monday, The […]

Biden publicly receives COVID-19 vaccine

12:34 pm December 22, 2020

Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday publicly received the COVID-19 vaccine and said he was doing this to demonstrate that people should be ready to take the vaccine when it is available. Biden received the first course of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at Christiana Care Hospital. “I am doing this to demonstrate that people should […]