Day: December 28, 2020

Chennai: Airport employee, passenger from Dubai held for gold smuggling

8:32 pm December 28, 2020

Chennai: A software engineer working at the Chennai airport and a passenger who arrived from Dubai were apprehended on Monday for allegedly smuggling gold bars worth Rs 1.5 crore, the CISF said. They said the security personnel found that the passenger, Niyamatullah Hadi, was behaving in a suspicious manner as he entered a bathroom located […]

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Trump signs Tibet policy to preempt Chinese move on Dalai Lama’s succession; China firmly opposes

8:28 pm December 28, 2020

Washington: US President Donald Trump has signed into law a bill that reaffirms the right of Tibetans to choose a successor to the Dalai Lama and calls for establishing an American consulate in Tibet, prompting China to warn that the act will seriously disrupt and hurt bilateral relations. The Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2020 modifies and re-authorises various programmes and provisions related to […]

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UP STF busts ‘charas’ smuggling racket, arrests 7 people in Kanpur

8:28 pm December 28, 2020

Lucknow: Seven people, including three women, were arrested in Kanpur by a Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday for alleged involvement in an internatinal ‘charas’ smuggling racket, officials said. The STF of UP Police busted the racket with the arrest of seven people from Kanpur Dehat area, it said in a statement issued here. Thirty kilograms […]

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

Delhi braces for cold wave in run-up to New Year

8:11 pm December 28, 2020

New Delhi: A cold wave is likely to grip parts of Delhi over the next four days as frosty winds from the Himalayas have started blowing towards the plains, weather department officials said on Monday. The minimum and maximum temperatures in the national capital settled at 5.6 degrees Celsius and 20.9 degrees Celsius, respectively. The […]

Rajasthan records three more Covid deaths, 55 new cases

COVID-19: Delhi records 564 fresh cases; positivity rate below 1 pc

8:09 pm December 28, 2020

New Delhi: Delhi recorded 564 fresh COVID-19 cases, the lowest in at least five months, and 21 more fatalities due to the disease on Monday, even as the positivity rate stood at 0.98 per cent, authorities said. The city’s caseload mounted to 6,23,415 and the death toll due to the coronavirus infection rose to 10,474, […]