Day: December 31, 2020

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

2020: A year of raging pandemic, gas spill, floods, massive protests for Assam

12:26 pm December 31, 2020

Guwahati: Assam had little luck escaping the ravages of COVID-19 in a year filled with myriad developments for the northeastern state from aggressive protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and birth of new political parties to a major industrial disaster. Assam’s tryst with the killer virus happened on March 31, when a returnee from outside […]

China grants conditional approval to its homegrown COVID-19 vaccine

12:21 pm December 31, 2020

Beijing: China has granted conditional approval to the country’s first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine developed by state-owned pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm, an official announcement said on Thursday. The approval comes a day after Sinopharm said its vaccine showed 79.34 per cent efficacy and a 99.52 per cent antibody-positive conversion rate in the interim results of the Phase III clinical trials. ”The inactivated […]

Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Trump to return to White House early from Florida vacation

12:18 pm December 31, 2020

Westpalmbeach: President Donald Trump is cutting short his Florida holiday vacation and returning to Washington on Thursday, one day earlier than expected for reasons the White House didn’t explain. The White House announced the abrupt change in the president’s schedule late Wednesday, hours after Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said he will raise objections next week when Congress meets to […]

Sheriff: 4 dead in Houston domestic violence shooting

12:14 pm December 31, 2020

Houston: Four people were killed at a Houston home Wednesday in what authorities said was likely a domestic violence shooting that included a man firing at police before turning a gun on himself. Officers went to a home in the city’s northeast around 3:15 am after receiving a call saying a woman had been shot, […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Clash between farm workers, police leaves 3 dead in Peru

12:09 pm December 31, 2020

Lima: Farm workers demanding better wages clashed with police on a Peru’s Pan-American highway Wednesday, leaving at least three people dead and 24 injured in a dispute over reforms to the country’s agro-export sector The workers for agricultural export companies are unhappy with an increase in their daily wage worth $2.50 when they were asking for a USD […]