Day: March 21, 2021

Romania sets record for virus patients in ICUs

7:23 pm March 21, 2021

Bucharest: Romania on Sunday recorded its highest number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units since the pandemic began. The increasing pressure on ICU wards — where today 1,334 people are currently receiving care — comes amid a surge of COVID-19 cases in the Eastern European country. Over the past week, Romania has been recording its highest number of […]

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

Arrested in UP after Tablighi Jamaat event, 11 Bangladeshi members allowed to go home

7:15 pm March 21, 2021

Bhadohi: Eleven Bangladeshi Tablighi Jamaat members, who were arrested from here for flouting visa norms and put in a government travel blacklist, have left the country after a Lucknow court allowed them go on completing their punishment, police said Sunday. Superintendent of Police Ram Badan Singh said they left Saturday on a bus from Bhadohi with a […]

Philippine defense chief asks Chinese flotilla to leave reef

7:11 pm March 21, 2021

Manila: The Philippine defense chief on Sunday demanded more than 200 Chinese vessels he said were manned by militias leave a South China Sea reef claimed by Manila, saying their presence was a “provocative action of militarising the area.” “We call on the Chinese to stop this incursion and immediately recall these boats violating our maritime rights and encroaching into our sovereign territory,” Lorenzana said in […]

Tribal woman dies in Odisha's forest fire

Odisha: Guard burnt alive while trying to douse forest fire

7:05 pm March 21, 2021

Baripada: A guard was burnt alive while he was trying to douse a fire in a forest near the Similipal National Park in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district on Sunday, police said. The incident happened at the Jadnil Reserve Forest of Thakurmunda range in Karanjia forest division, they said. Jadu Mahanta (58), a contractual guard engaged by the state forest department, was caught in a fiery whirlwind […]

Rajasthan records three more Covid deaths, 55 new cases

COVID-19: 18 test positive in Goa orphanage

6:55 pm March 21, 2021

Panaji: An orphanage was on Sunday declared a micro containment zone in Goa’s Ponda taluka after 18 people tested positive for COVID-19, an official said. The samples of 45 students and 17 staff from ‘Matrucchaya’ orphanage for girls in Kavlem, some 10 kilometres from Ponda town, were taken for testing and reports of 18 returned […]