November

Cricket-betting: Man kills sister, mother to clear debts

10:21 pm November 30, 2020

Hyderabad: A 23-year-old man facing financial problems after losing money in cricket-betting allegedly poisoned his mother and sister to death in order to clear his debts by selling their properties, police said on Monday. The accused, a M Tech second year student, mixed pesticide in the food of his 22-year-old sister and 44-year- old mother […]

Coldest November in Delhi in 71 years: IMD

3:13 pm November 30, 2020

New Delhi: The month of November was the coldest in the national capital in 71 years, with the mean minimum temperature dropping to 10.2 degrees Celsius, according to the India Meteorological Department. Delhi had recorded a mean minimum temperature of 10.2 degrees Celsius in November 1949. The mean minimum temperature for November was 9.6 degrees […]

Delhi’s air quality slips to ‘severe’ due to slow winds

7:05 pm November 25, 2020

New Delhi: After 10 days, Delhi’s air quality deteriorated to the “severe” category on Wednesday due to slow winds, government agencies said. Stubble burning accounted for two per cent of Delhi’s PM2.5 pollution on Wednesday. According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) mobile app, SAMEER, the city’s air quality index (AQI) was recorded at […]

UP: Man arrested on rape charges as woman kills self a day before his marriage

6:41 pm November 24, 2020

Muzaffarnagar: A 26-year-old woman has killed herself here alleging that she was sexually exploited by a man who had promised to marry her but refused to do so subsequently, police said Tuesday. They said the woman consumed poison outside the man’s house on Monday, just a day before he was set to marry another woman. […]

Woman jumps in front of train with nine-month-old son

Local train services on Harbour line disrupted

6:25 pm November 24, 2020

New Delhi: Callers will soon be required to add ‘0’ prefix for making calls from landlines to mobile phones in the country, with the telecom department asking telcos to make necessary arrangements by January 1 to implement the new system. The department has accepted sectoral regulator Trai’s recommendation for having the ‘0’ prefix for such […]