Day: December 26, 2020

UP: Four injured as fire breaks out in drug factory

7:49 pm December 26, 2020

Muzaffarnagar (UP): A fire broke out at a drug manufacturing factory here on Saturday, injuring four staffers, police said. The incident occurred after a dryer machine at the unit caught fire and exploded, circle officer Kuldeep Singh said. The fire was doused with the help of fire tenders and the injured were taken to a […]

IMD warns cold wave in 9 Odisha districts, Phulbani coldest at 7.5 degree Celsius

Bitter cold in eastern UP

7:45 pm December 26, 2020

Lucknow: Severe cold-wave conditions prevailed at isolated places over eastern Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. The meteorological department said that the lowest temperature in the state was 3.2 degrees Celsius was recorded at Churk observatory in Sonbhadra district, while the highest was 25.1 degrees in Allahabad and Jhansi district. The weather will most likely remain dry […]

China to send top-ranking CPC leader to Kathmandu to prevent split in Nepal Communist Party

6:30 pm December 26, 2020

Kathmandu: China is sending a four-member team led by a vice minister of the Chinese Communist Party to Kathmandu in what is believed to be its effort to assess the ground situation and prevent a split in the ruling the Nepal Communist Party (NCP), a media report said on Saturday. Nepal plunged into a political […]

HM’s remark against custodial torture, a welcome move

Modi’s six-year rule provided most peaceful atmosphere in J&K: Shah

6:26 pm December 26, 2020

Jammu: The six-year rule of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from 2014 will be remembered as the most peaceful period in the history of Jammu and Kashmir since 1990, Union Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday. Shah also lauded Lt Governor Manoj Sinha and his administration for conducting peaceful and transparent District Development Council (DDC) polls and assured the people of Jammu and Kashmir […]

Millions more in tough post-Christmas lockdown in UK

6:22 pm December 26, 2020

London: Millions more people across different parts of the UK entered tougher lockdown restrictions from December 26, the day after Christmas marked annually as Boxing Day, as part of plans announced earlier this week to contain the rapid spread of a highly transmissible variant of coronavirus. Around six million people in east and south-east England […]