Day: January 9, 2021

40-yr-old Punjab farmer ends life at Singhu border: Haryana Police

10:58 pm January 9, 2021

Chandigarh: A40-year-old Punjab farmer, who was taking part in the protest at the Singhu border against the Central farm laws, allegedly took his own life by consuming some poisonous substance on Saturday evening, police said. The farmer, Amarinder Singh, was a resident of Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib district. The man was rushed to a local hospital in Sonipat where he died, said Sonipat’s Kundli police station’s inspector Ravi Kumar. […]

Queen and husband get COVID-19 vaccine in UK

10:55 pm January 9, 2021

London: The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received COVID-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said on Saturday. A royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle. The source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation. The Queen, 94, and Prince […]

Mumbai: British national, 2 others held with high-grade drugs

10:55 pm January 9, 2021

Mumbai : The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)on Saturday arrested three persons, including a British National, for allegedly supplying imported strains of ganja in the metropolis, an official said. One of those arrested is a suspect in the drug case being probed after the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput in June last year, he […]

Bird flu: FSSAI advises consumers not to eat undercooked chicken; says no need to panic

Bird flu scare: Delhi bans import of live birds; Ghazipur poultry market, Sanjay Lake shut

10:41 pm January 9, 2021

New Delhi: The Delhi government on Saturday announced a ban on import of live birds and closure of the city’s biggest poultry market at Ghazipur after more avian deaths were reported in the national capital where three recreational parks and the famous Sanjay Lake were shut. Addressing an online media briefing, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said while no confirmed case has so far […]

11 detained for defacing Aurangzeb Lane signboards in Delhi

10:37 pm January 9, 2021

New Delhi: Eleven people were detained for allegedly defacing two Aurangzeb Lane signboards in Lutyens’ Delhi on Saturday, police said. They said they received information at 5.40 am that a few people have gathered at Aurangzeb Lane, Tughlaq Road. After reaching the spot, police personnel found that 11 people led by Anuradha Bhargav (30), a resident of Karnal and […]