Day: January 15, 2021

All set for COVID vaccination drive at 317 place in UP

11:08 pm January 15, 2021

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has made all necessary arrangements for the COVID vaccination drive beginning Saturday at 317 places in 75 districts of the state, a minister said. Minister for Medical, Health and Family Planning Jai Pratap Singh said on Friday that 31,700 health workers will be administered vaccine on the first day. Stressing that all necessary precautions […]

IMD warns cold wave in 9 Odisha districts, Phulbani coldest at 7.5 degree Celsius

Moderate fog in Delhi, min temp rises to 6.4°C

11:04 pm January 15, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi‘s minimum temperature rose to 6.4 degrees Celsius, a notch above normal, on Friday due to partly cloudy weather, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The maximum temperature stood at 20.8 degrees Celsius, a notch above normal. Moderate fog lowered visibility to 201 metres at Safdarjung and 300 metres at Palam in the morning, an IMD official said. Dense […]

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

KLO militant held from Assam’s Kokrajhar

8:47 pm January 15, 2021

Kokrajhar: A KLO militant was arrested from Assam’s Kokrajhar district by a joint team of the Army and the police, defence sources said on Friday. The Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) militant was apprehended at the Kalipukhuri village in Kokrajhar police station area on Thursday night, they said. He has been identified as Pradip Roy alias […]

At least 42 dead as Indonesia quake topples homes, buildings

8:43 pm January 15, 2021

Mamuju: Astrong, shallow earthquake shook Indonesia’s Sulawesi island just after midnight, toppling homes and buildings, triggering landslides and killing at least 42 people. More than 600 people were injured by the magnitude 6.2 quake, which sent people fleeing their homes in the darkness on Friday. Authorities were still collecting information about the full scale of casualties and […]

Poet Amanda Gorman, 22, will read at Biden inaugural

8:40 pm January 15, 2021

Washington: At age 22, poet Amanda Gorman, chosen to read at the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, already has a history of writing for official occasions. ”I have kind of stumbled upon this genre. It’s been something I find a lot of emotional reward in, writing something I can make people feel touched by, even if it’s […]