Day: January 6, 2021

EU agency approves Moderna”s COVID-19 vaccine

7:41 pm January 6, 2021

Amsterdam: The European Unions medicines agency gave the green light Wednesday to Moderna Inc.s COVID-19 vaccine, a decision that gives the 27-nation bloc a second vaccine to use in the desperate battle to tame the virus rampaging across the continent. The approval recommendation by the European Medicines Agencys human medicines committee — which must be rubber stamped by the EUs executive […]

UP: Christian members urge police to register case against VHP workers for breaking into prayer meet

7:32 pm January 6, 2021

Shahjahanpur: Members of the Christian community on Wednesday met the district police chief here seeking the registration of a case against Vishwa Hindu Parishad workers who had allegedly barged into a prayer meeting earlier this week. In the petition submitted to Shahjahanpur Superintendent of Police S Anand, the community members alleged that 20 people, including VHP office bearer Shyam Mishra, barged into […]

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

6 held for befriending random people on social media, extorting money using morphed chat video

7:27 pm January 6, 2021

New Delhi: Six members of an alleged extortion gang have been arrested from Rajasthan for allegedly duping people after be-friending them on social media and later threatening to upload their morphed chat videos online, police said on Wednesday. The accused have been identified as Waris (28), Rayees (22), Annay Khan (21), Wahid (23), Mufeed (30) and Akram (21), they said, adding they were running the alleged extortion […]

EU calls for ”immediate release” of Hong Kong activists

7:27 pm January 6, 2021

Brussels: The European Union called for the immediate release Wednesday of the 53 former lawmakers and pro-democracy activists who have been arrested in Hong Kong after being accused of violating a new security law. The mass arrests, including of former lawmakers, were the largest crackdown on Hong Kongs democracy movement since the law was imposed by China last June to quell dissent in […]

Delhi man arrested for hitting calf

4:48 pm January 6, 2021

New Delhi: A man has been arrested for allegedly thrashing a calf in east Delhi’s Mandawali and leaving the animal writhing in pain, police said on Wednesday. A CCTV footage of the incident has been doing the rounds on social media and the police has identified the man as Kamal Singh, a resident of the […]