Day: January 7, 2021

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

US trade deficit jumps to $68.1 billion in November

9:18 pm January 7, 2021

Washington : The US trade deficit jumped to USD 68.1 billion in November as a surge in imports overwhelmed a smaller increase in exports. The November gap between what America buys from abroad compared to what it sells abroad rose by 8 per cent from the October deficit of USD 63.1 billion, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Through the […]

Biden picks Indian-American Vanita Gupta as associate attorney general

9:17 pm January 7, 2021

Washington : US President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday nominated Indian American Vanita Gupta to be the associate attorney general and roped in Judge Merrick Garland for the position of attorney general. He also announced the nominations of Lisa Monaco as deputy attorney general and Kristen Clarke for assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division. ”Our first-rate nominees to […]

Woman arrested for trying to sell newborn in Delhi

Woman kills ‘unwanted’ new born in Kerala, arrested

9:08 pm January 7, 2021

Thiruvananthapuram: In a cruel incident of infanticide, a 26-year-old woman in Kerala has allegedly strangled to death her new born girl baby using an earphone cable as she had not planned for the child, her second. Sahina, native of Chedakkanam, was arrested on Thursday On charges of killing the infant, weeks after the incident in […]

Delhi's peak power demand scales new high of 7,323 MW

At 5265 MW, Delhi records season’s highest power demand

9:00 pm January 7, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi‘s peak power demand clocked 5,265 MW on Thursday, the highest so far this winter, due to the continuing chilly weather, discom officials said. The peak power demand of the city has increased by over four per cent since January 1. It registered an increase of over 50 per cent since December 1 […]

Minimum temperatures hover above normal levels in Punjab, Haryana

8:52 pm January 7, 2021

Chandigarh: Cold weather conditions continued in Punjab and Haryana even as the minimum temperatures stayed above normal levels in both the states on Thursday. Chandigarh, the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, recorded its low at 12 degrees Celsius, seven degrees above normal, an official of the India Meteorological Department said here. In Punjab, Amritsar, Ludhiana and Patiala recorded their respective minimums at 9, 12 and 13.5 degrees Celsius, up to seven degrees […]