Day: January 3, 2021

Vaccine approval hailed as decisive turning point in India’s fight against pandemic; Leaders laud scientists, corona warriors

10:46 pm January 3, 2021

New Delhi : The approval given to two COVID-19 vaccines is a ”decisive turning point” in the spirited fight against the pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday as the development was greeted with a sense of relief and hope in the country that has been reeling from the impact of the virus for […]

Bus carrying wedding party crashes into house in Kerala, 7 killed

10:45 pm January 3, 2021

Kasaragod: Tragedy befell a marriage party from Karnataka when seven of its members, including two children, were killed and several others injured after their bus crashed into an uninhabited house near here on Sunday. All the deceased were proceeding to Panathoor through Sullia road when the accident occurred at 11.30 am, police said. District Collector D Sajith Babu said […]

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

Two French soldiers killed during mission in Mali

5:20 pm January 3, 2021

Paris: The French presidency announced that two French soldiers were killed Saturday in Mali when an improvised explosive device hit their armoured vehicle, five days after three others died in similar circumstances. The soldiers were participating in an intelligence mission in the Menaka region of northeastern Mali, as part of a larger operation aiming at fighting Islamist extremists in Africa’s Sahel region. A third […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

German governor: Extend lockdown through January

5:15 pm January 3, 2021

Berlin : A prominent German state governor is calling for the country’s lockdown to be extended until the end of January and says there should be no rushed reopening of schools. Germany’s current lockdown took effect on December 16 after a partial shutdown that started at the beginning of November failed to reduce new coronavirus […]

Beating hunger, COVID, destitute medical aspirants of Odisha on way to become doctors

5:09 pm January 3, 2021

Bhubaneswar: Born in humble families they were reconciling to their fate, but destiny had written a different course for them. Braving all odds, a select group of medical aspirants of Odisha coming from humble background have got entry in medical colleges after clearing tough NEET examination in 2020. Their dream of becoming medicos got wings […]