India

Kochi, Dec 23: Eminent Malayalam poet, conservationist and women's activist, Sugathakumari, who had tested positive for COVID-19 and was undergoing treatment, passed away at the government medical college hospital on Wednesday. She was 86 and leaves behind daughter Lakshmi Devi, family sources said. The octogenarian poet rarely made any public appearance in recent days due to old age difficulties

New Delhi, Dec 22: India stopping flights to and from Britain after a new strain of Covid-19 with high transmissibility was reported in the UK has upset plans of many who were to come back home before the New Year or return to universities there for pending research work. The flight suspension till the end of this year was announced on Monday in view of detection of a new rapid-spreading strain of

The Uttar Pradesh authorities have cut over 1.89 trees for the construction of the Bundelkhand expressway, an RTI query has revealed. In a reply to Banda-based activist Kuldeep Shukla, Senior Manager of the UP Forest Department, Atul Asthana, said the Expressway Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA) has cut 1,89,036 trees for the 296-km-long project. The trees were cut in Banda, Chitrakoot

New Delhi, Dec 22: Former Congress Councillor Ishrat Jahan, arrested under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in a north-east Delhi riots case, alleged before a court on Tuesday that she was beaten badly by inmates at Mandoli jail and was continuously facing harassment in prison. Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat directed the jail authorities to take immediate steps to ensure

New Delhi, Dec 22: With the farmers' protest against the recently passed Central farm laws entering the 27th day, causing heavy traffic snarls on the roads leading to the national capital, the Congress on Tuesday attacked the Union government for creating artificial scarcity and blocking roads which are not being done by the agitating farmers. Senior Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi

Chennai, Dec 22: Two passengers, who arrived from the United Kingdom, tested positive for coronavirus at Kolkata airport on Sunday, a Kolkata airport official said. This comes as the aviation ministry on Monday announced the suspension of all flights to and from the UK from today until the end of 31 December, and made it mandatory for all passengers arriving before the ban comes into force to be

Bengaluru, Dec 22: India is witnessing a reduction in the daily number of COVID-19 cases being reported, but the news of a new "out-of-control" coronavirus strain found in the UK has sent the government into a spiral. Apart from that, there are concerns over the possibility that the upcoming Christmas and New Year festivities could cause people to throw caution to the wind and go lax on COVID-19

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 22: A CBI court here on Tuesday found a catholic priest and a nun guilty in connection with the murder of 21-year-old Sister Abhaya, whose body was found in the well of a convent in Kottayam in 1992. The verdict in this regard was pronounced by CBI special court judge J Sanal Kumar. The quantum of sentence will be pronounced on Wednesday. The court said the murder charges

New Delhi, Dec 21: BJP MP Saumitra Khan has said he will send a divorce notice to his wife Sujata Mondal Khan who switched over to the TMC from the saffron camp on Monday, claiming that she did not get her due recognition even after taking several risks to getting her husband elected from Bishnupur during 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Shortly after, incensed by his wife's action, Khan said he would be

Srinagar, Dec 21: Stating that democracy has finally won in Jammu and Kashmir after a gap of 70 years, BJP leader and former union minister, Shahnawaz Hussain, Monday said that the recently concluded DDC polls in the union territory (UT) will go with the golden words in the country’s history. “It was for the first time in the history of elections that there was not a single law and order incident