Day: December 24, 2020

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

COVID-19: Ghaziabad admin sets up dedicated wing for UK, Europe returnees

11:14 pm December 24, 2020

Ghaziabad: The Ghaziabad administration has established a dedicated wing inside the integrated COVID-19 control room to treat people who have returned from the UK and Europe after a new COVID-19 strain was found in Britain, officials said on Thursday. Private COVID-19 hospitals have also been instructed to set up a separate wing and reserve beds […]

Two cops booked for “misbehaving” with girl students in Hyderabad varsity campus

11:11 pm December 24, 2020

Hyderabad: Two police personnel in civil dress allegedly misbehaved with some girl students in the campus of the University of Hyderabad (UoH) here on Thursday under the influence of liquor, police said. The incident occurred in the evening and students and the university security personnel caught the Reserve Sub-Inspector and the Head Constable and handed […]

UK, EU clinch post-Brexit free trade agreement, hail biggest bilateral deal

11:06 pm December 24, 2020

London: Britain clinched a historic deal with the European Union on Thursday as both sides managed to thrash out a post-Brexit free trade agreement (FTA) just days before the December 31 deadline. Thousands of pages of legal text accompanies the deal, with details of the agreement set to emerge in the course of the next […]

Water leaks indicate new damage at Fukushima nuclear plant

Melted fuel removal at Fukushima delayed by pandemic

11:00 pm December 24, 2020

Tokyo: Japan’s government and the operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant said Thursday that the removal of melted reactor fuel planned to start in 2021 will have to be postponed by about one year due to the worsening coronavirus pandemic. The economy and industry ministry and Tokyo Electric Power Co. had planned to start […]

Christmas Eve concert held in Paris’ fire-wrecked Notre Dame

10:53 pm December 24, 2020

Paris: Wearing hard hats and protective suits, the choir of Notre Dame Cathedral sang inside the medieval Paris landmark for the first time since last year’s devastating fire for a special Christmas Eve concert. Accompanied by an acclaimed violinist, a rented organ and a soprano soloist, 20 singers performed beneath the cathedral’s stained-glass windows amid […]

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