Day: January 20, 2021

Strong winds improve Delhi’s air quality

8:28 pm January 20, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi’s air quality recorded a marginal improvement on Wednesday, moving to the ‘poor’ category from ‘severe’ the day before, due to a favourable wind speed, India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials said here. The city’s 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) stood at 283 on Wednesday. It was 404 on Tuesday, 372 on Monday […]

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

ED arrests 2 in MP e-tendering money laundering case

8:23 pm January 20, 2021

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has arrested two people on money laundering charges in the alleged over Rs 3,000 crore e-tender rigging racket of Madhya Pradesh, the central agency said on Wednesday. Srinivas Raju Mantena, founder and chairman of Mantena Constructions, and his associate Aditya Tripathi of Arni Infra and a resident of state capital […]

UP: Class 8 student tries to rape 12-year-old girl, case registered

5:16 pm January 20, 2021

Bareilly: A Class 8 student allegedly tried to rape a 12-year- old girl in his neighbourhood here, police said on Wednesday. Area SHO K K Verma said they have registered a case on the complaint of the girl’s mother. Three members of the 14-year-old boy’s family have also been booked for allegedly issuing life threats. According to […]

8 crows found dead in Punjab's Hoshiarpur

Over 1,200 bird deaths reported in Delhi since Jan 6, say officials

5:11 pm January 20, 2021

New Delhi : Over 1,200 bird deaths have been reported in Delhi in the last 15 days amid the avian influenza situation here, officials said on Wednesday. Of the 201 samples collected from various places in the national capital, 24 have tested positive for bird flu so far, the director of the animal husbandry unit of the Delhi government’s Development Department, Dr […]

Coronavirus vaccines sent by India reach Bhutan and Maldives

5:03 pm January 20, 2021

New Delhi: Bhutan and Maldives on Wednesday became the first two countries to receive COVID-19 vaccines sent by India in sync with its ‘neighbourhood first’ policy. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar shared on Twitter photos of the consignments reaching the two countries. On Tuesday, India had said it would send COVID-19 vaccines under grant assistance to Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar and Seychelles from Wednesday. The supplies to Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Mauritius will commence after confirmation of […]