Day: March 5, 2021

TMC MLA opts out of Bengal assembly polls

2:39 pm March 5, 2021

Kolkata: Amid exodus of a number of public representatives and workers, another Trinamool Congress MLA Samir Chakraborty said on Friday that he would not like to contest the West Bengal assembly elections. The TMC leadership said that they will talk to Chakraborty on the issue. “I have informed party supremo (Mamata Banerjee) that I don’t […]

One new COVID-19 case in Mizoram, tally at 4,428

2:33 pm March 5, 2021

Aizawl: Mizoram reported just one new COVID-19 case in the last 24 hours, which took the state’s tally to 4,428, an official said on Friday. A 23-year-old woman in Aizawl tested positive for the infection after she returned from Delhi, he said. “The woman arrived at Lengpui airport on Thursday and was diagnosed with the […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Japan to extend virus emergency for 2 weeks for Tokyo area

2:27 pm March 5, 2021

Tokyo: Japan’s government will extend a state of emergency in the Tokyo region for another two weeks because its medical systems are still strained by COVID-19 patients, the minister in charge of virus response said Friday. “For two more weeks, we will keep the measure in place … so that we can firmly ease strains […]

US condemns terrorists who seek to infiltrate across LoC

2:15 pm March 5, 2021

Washington: The US has condemned terrorists who seek to infiltrate across the Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistan, calling on all the parties to reduce tensions along the frontiers by returning to the 2003 ceasefire commitments between the two countries. The comments by the State Department spokesperson Ned Price followed a joint statement […]

Ban Ki-moon asked to act on complaint against Beijing Games

2:08 pm March 5, 2021

Beijing: Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is being asked to rule on an ethics complaint filed against the International Olympic Committee by a human-rights group representing Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China. Ban is the chairman of the IOC’s ethics commission. The World Uyghur Congress says an initial ethics complaint filed with the IOC […]