Day: January 24, 2021

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

Night temperatures remain above normal in Rajasthan

4:44 pm January 24, 2021

Jaipur: Night temperatures remained above normal in parts of Rajasthan, where Bhilwara was recorded as the coldest place at 6 degrees Celsius. However, the mercury dipped to zero degrees Celsius in Mount Abu, the sole hill station of the desert state. In the rest of the areas, the night temperature was recorded between 6.1 […]

Modi to interact with Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar awardees

4:40 pm January 24, 2021

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar awardees on Monday via video conferencing, according to the Prime Minister’s Office. The government of India has been conferring the Bal Shakti Puraskar under the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar to children with exceptional abilities and outstanding achievements in the fields of innovation, sports, arts and culture, social service, scholastic field, […]

Indonesia to deport Russian social media star who held party

4:33 pm January 24, 2021

Denpasar: A Russian social media celebrity was being deported from Indonesia on Sunday after he held a party at a luxury hotel on the resort island of Bali attended by more than 50 people despite coronavirus restrictions. The party held on January 11 violated health protocols put in place to fight the spread of the […]

UP CM likens anti-Covid vaccine to ‘Sanjeevani Booti’

4:30 pm January 24, 2021

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday compared the Covid-19 vaccines given by India to Brazil to ‘Sanjeevani Booti’, a mythological life-saving herb figuring in the Hindu epic Ramayana. Yogi made the comparison a day after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro invoked Lord Hanuman while thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for providing two million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to fight the deadly coronavirus infection in his country, one of the worst-hit […]

‘I am innocent,’ says mother charged with sexually abusing minor son in Kerala

4:27 pm January 24, 2021

Thiruvananthapuram: The 35-year-old woman,who has been accused of ‘sexually abusing’ her minor son, on Sunday said she was innocent and framed by her estranged husband and his second wife. Appearing before the media with her face covered, the woman said,”the truth should come out. My son was threatened by his father to give the statements […]