Month: December 2020

Protesting farmers stay put at Delhi borders amid harsh winter

New Delhi, Dec 27: Thousands of farmers agitating against the three new Central agriculture laws stayed put at their agitations venues near Delhi, which is going through a harsh spell of winter, unrelenting in their demand of withdrawal of the legislations. The farmers had reached Singhu border over a […]

39 new COVID-19 cases in Ladakh

Leh, Dec 27:  Thirty-nine more people tested positive for the coronavirus in Ladakh, taking the infection count in the Union Territory to 9,394, officials said on Sunday. Ladakh has so far recorded 126 COVID-related deaths — 83 in Leh and 43 in Kargil — while 9,050 patients or […]

Four eclipses in 2021, two to be visible in India

Indore, Dec 27: There will four eclipses in 2021, including one total solar eclipse and one total lunar eclipse, but only two will be visible from India, Ujjain-based Jiwaji Observatory’s Superintendent Dr Rajendraprakash Gupt said on Sunday. He told PTI that the first of these events will be on […]

COVID-19: Lowest daily cases recorded in India after gap of nearly 6 months

New Delhi, Dec 27:  India registered 18,732 fresh cases of COVID-19, the lowest in nearly six months, while 97,61,538 people have recuperated so far from the disease pushing the national recovery rate to 95.82 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday The death […]

A Sudan in transition presents first-ever film for Oscars

CAIRO — Nearly two years after the overthrow of autocrat Omar al-Bashir, Sudan is taking steps to rejoin the international community from which it was long shunned. That includes its film industry. For the first time in its history, Sudan has a submission for the Academy Awards. Produced […]

Series of explosions target police in Kabul; at least 4 dead

KABUL, Afghanistan — A series of explosions hit the Afghan capital on Saturday morning, killing at least four people including two police officers, officials said. The deaths were caused by a sticky bomb attached to a police vehicle detonated in western Kabul, police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz said. The […]

China to leapfrog U.S. as world’s biggest economy by 2028: think tank

LONDON – China will overtake the United States to become the world’s biggest economy in 2028, five years earlier than previously estimated due to the contrasting recoveries of the two countries from the COVID-19 pandemic, a think tank said. “For some time, an overarching theme of global economics […]

India detains 75 in Kashmir after local election

SRINAGAR, India – India’s government detained at least 75 Kashmiri political leaders and activists to forestall political unrest after an alliance of Kashmir’s regional political parties won a local election, leaders and a police official said on Saturday. The District Council election, concluded early this week, was the […]

Khajuria seeks LG’s intervention in establishment of Mathwar Babaji Shrine Board

open view news desk MATHWAR DECEMBER 26- Senior National Conference leader, Mr Sonmath Khajuria, who was nominee in the just concluded elections to District Development Councils from the Nagrota-Mathwar segment today sought establishment of shrine board on the analogy of Shiv Khori Shrine Board for the ancient and […]

PM to inaugurate India’s first-ever driverless train operations on Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line on 28 December

PM to also inaugurate fully operational National Common Mobility Card service on the Airport Express Line DELHI, DECEMBER 26: Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will inaugurate India’s first-ever driverless train operations on Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line (Janakpuri West – Botanical Garden) along with the fully operational National Common […]

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