DELHI FREEZES AT 2.4 DEGREE CELSIUS, COLDEST DAY OF SEASON
New Delhi: The national capital on Saturday recorded its coldest day of the season as the minimum temperature plummeted to 2.4 degrees Celsius in the morning, officials said. Dense fog enveloped the city reducing visibility and affecting air traffic and vehicular movement in the streets. Mercury fell to its lowest in Delhi this season with […]
Pakistan : Kidnap, murder of 5-year-old shocks Islamabad
Islamabad: Every day after playing in the street, five-year-old Umer used to sit outside his house, on a pedestal close to the gate and wait for his father’s return. “He was a darling of the street and everyone in the neighbourhood area adored him,” Gohar Shafique Rathore, a cousin of Umer Rathore, told Gulf News […]
11 people injured in explosion at Kansas aircraft plant
A liquid nitrogen explosion at a Textron Aviation plant near Wichita, Kansas, injured 11 people on Friday, potentially setting back the introduction of a new aircraft under development, county and company officials said. Emergency medical services took 11 people to the hospital, one of them suffering potentially serious injuries, Dr. John Gallagher, the director of […]
Bihar: 4-year-old girl raped in Muzaffarpur
Muzaffarpur: A four-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 22-year-old man in Muzaffarpur and has been admitted in a critical condition to Shrikrishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH), said Bihar Police on Friday. The accused identified as Azad has been arrested by the police. “The incident took place in the area of Ahiyapur Police Station […]
New York ‘over the mountain’ as new COVID cases fall to pre-crisis levels: governor
Daily new hospitalizations across New York state for the novel coronavirus are below rates seen prior to its March lockdown, further evidence the state hit hardest by the pandemic has turned the corner, New York Governor Andrew said on Thursday. Cuomo told a daily briefing the three-day rolling average for new coronavirus hospitalizations was at […]
Ivanka Trump Praises Girl Who Cycled 1,200 km with Injured Father
Washington: US President Donald Trump’s daughter and senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump has praised 15-year-old Jyoti Kumari, who cycled down 1200 km carrying her ailing father during the nationwide lockdown in India, terming her act as a “beautiful feat of endurance and love”. Stuck in Gurugram in Haryana due to the COVID-19-induced travel restrictions and […]
Los Angeles mayor dismisses Trump administration warning over ‘unlawful’ lockdown
LOS ANGELES: The mayor of Los Angeles Friday dismissed a Trump administration warning that the city’s continued lockdown due to coronavirus could be illegal, saying he would not be “pushed by politics.” Eric Garcetti, the Democratic leader of the United States’ second-largest city, was sent a letter earlier Friday by federal authorities that said long-term […]
Woman who confessed to killing her 9-year-old son pushed him into a canal in Florida
A mother who initially told police that her son was abducted admitted during an interrogation that she led him to a canal where the 9-year-old was later found dead, an arrest affidavit says. Patricia Ripley, 45, initially told Miami-Dade Police that two men side-swiped her car while she was driving with her son, Alejandro Ripley, […]
US pushing relations to ‘brink of new Cold War,’ China warns
The United States is pushing relations with China to “the brink of a new Cold War”, China’s foreign minster said on Sunday, rejecting US “lies” over the coronavirus while saying Beijing was open to an international effort to find its source. Keeping up the worsening war of words with Washington over the pandemic and a […]
US coronavirus death toll surpasses 100,000
The United States on Wednesday surpassed the grim milestone of 100,000 coronavirus deaths as the country continues to ease lockdown and return to work. With the European Union unveiling a massive recovery plan to step up its emergence from the crisis, the US figure was a sobering reminder of the devastation being wreaked around the […]
