Day: January 3, 2021

Mizoram churches reopen after over 10 months

Senate race thrusts ‘Black America’s church’ into spotlight

11:11 pm January 3, 2021

Atlanta: For decades, the red-bricked Gothic Revival church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached has been a monument to the history of Black Americans’ fight for civil rights and the legacy of an activist icon. It took a high-stakes Senate race and a Trump-era cultural debate to thrust Ebenezer Baptist Church into the center of the current […]

Tourist from J-K dies after being trapped in snowfall in Uttarakhand

11:07 pm January 3, 2021

Dehradun: A tourist from Jammu and Kashmir was killed after getting caught in snowfall during trekking near Garsu Top in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, officials said on Sunday. The upper reaches of the hills of Kumaon and Garhwal regions in the state received fresh snowfall on Sunday. The 22-year-old tourist was killed after getting caught in […]

Video of Egypt virus patients’ ICU death stirs controversy

11:02 pm January 3, 2021

Cairo: Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan resumed their years-long negotiations Sunday over the controversial dam Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile, officials said. The resumption came six weeks after Khartoum boycotted talks in November, urging the African Union to play a greater role in reaching a deal over the disputed Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam. The negotiations have […]

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

Video of Egypt virus patients’ ICU death stirs controversy

10:59 pm January 3, 2021

Cairo: The deaths of at least four coronavirus patients early Sunday at a public Egyptian hospital have stirred controversy after a video of nurses struggling to keep the patients alive was shared widely on social media. The governor of Sharqia province denied allegations by a relative of one of the patients that the deaths were […]

41 new COVID-19 cases in UP’s Muzaffarnagar, 2 more die

10:53 pm January 3, 2021

Muzaffarnagar: Two more patients succumbed to the coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district, raising the death toll to 105, while 41 fresh cases pushed the infection tally to 8,125, officials said. The district has 305 active cases of the novel coronavirus, they said. The 56-year-old reader of the district judge was also among the two […]