Chile’s army reported on Monday that 36 people at the Gen Bernardo O’Higgins Riquelme Antarctic base had tested positive, and on Tuesday the Minister of Health for the Biobio Region in Chile said that there were 21 infections affecting people on the Chilean Navy’s Sergeant Aldea supply vessel. The pandemic has hit every continent on Earth.The Chilean authorities have confirmed that 58 people who have been on two naval bases in Antarctica or on a navy ship to the continent have been screened positive for the new coronavirus. No other country with a presence in Antarctica has officially documented some…
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The case was reported on a woman’s complaint in Sarita Vihar that a man allegedly forced her to convert her religion for marriage and later raped her, the Delhi Police said on Wednesday. It was also alleged that the accused had concealed his true identity and used to live in her house as a tenant, they said. According to the police, a complaint was received on Monday when the woman, a resident of Sangam Vihar, came to the Sarita Vihar Police Station and handed over her complaint. It was alleged that one Sahib Ali, alias Rahul (20), lived in her…
Farmers’ Union Kisan Sena said thousands of its members from western Uttar Pradesh would march to Delhi today in favour of the Center’s latest agricultural legislation. The march would bring together members from the Braj region, which includes districts such as Mathura, Agra, Firozabad, Hathras, as well as supporters from Meerut and Muzaffarnagar in the western UP, the union said. “We have written to the authorities concerned for permission regarding our march to Delhi but have not got reply. In any case, around 20,000 of Kisan Sena supporters will be en route to Delhi to meet Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh…
Eminent Malayalam poet, conservationist and women’s activist, Sugathakumari, who had tested positive for COVID-19 and was undergoing treatment, died at the govt medical college hospital here on Wednesday. She was 86 and leaves behind daughter Lakshmi Devi, family sources here said. The octogenarian poet rarely made any public appearance in recent days thanks to adulthood difficulties. Fondly being called as ‘Sugatha Teacher’ by her many admirers and followers, the activist-poet had been admitted to the medical care unit of the medical college after being diagnosed with the virus infection on December 21. Though she was first admitted to a personal…
The Shree Jagannath Temple here reopened for devotees on Wednesday after remaining closed for nine months in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The much-awaited ‘darshan’ of the sibling deities – Lord Balabhadra, Devi Subhadra and Lord Jagannath, began at 7 am amid strict adherence to the COVID-19 guidelines for servitors and their relations only, officials said. The Temple remained closed since the center of March thanks to the outbreak of the pandemic. this is often for the primary time within the history of the 12th century Lord Vishnu shrine here that the devotees were denied the chance for having ‘darshan’…
Unfazed by the worsening COVID-19 situation in England where she is training immediately , world champion shuttler P V Sindhu on Tuesday told PTI that she remains hopeful of travelling to Thailand for tournaments in January despite countries increasingly banning flights from the united kingdom . Sindhu, who has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, has been training in London for the last two months and is scheduled to play her first tournament since the break in Thailand. she is going to need to be in Bangkok by January 3 to compete within the two Super 1000 events (January 12 to…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a virtual meeting with nine Crore Farmers-former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s birthday-in which he will explain the stance of the Center on farm legislation and release the next batch of financial aid-18,000 Crore-from the PM-Kisan scheme. The meeting will include a dialogue with selected farmers from six countries who “will share their experiences.on initiatives taken by the government for the(ir) welfare” a statement made by the Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday evening. Interaction is part of the Centre’s efforts-over 100 news conferences and 700 meetings-to tackle a nearly month-long protest against the laws…
https://twitter.com/AmitShah/status/1341702549305356288?s=20 Union Home Minister Amit Shah welcomed the recent completion of the District Development Council (DDC) elections in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday and said that the Modi Government is doing all it can to restore grassroots democracy in the Union territory. In a series of tweets, Mr Shah also thanked the people of Jammu and Kashmir for voting the BJP as the single largest party in the maiden DDC polls. Modi’s government is doing all it can to return grassroots democracy to Jammu & Kashmir. For the first time in the history of J&K, the latest DDC polls are…
At least three security personnel from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) have been reported as injured in militant attacks in Jammu and Ganderbal Kashmir, near Srinagar. Terrorists lobbied a grenade against security forces in the Duderhama district of Ganderbal. The wounded staff have been admitted to the hospital. “Three CRPF army officers have sustained minor injuries after attackers hurled an explosive today,” Khalil Poswal, a senior police officer in Ganderbal, told A.
Jammu and Kashmir have issued a resounding blow to ‘terrorists, militants and separatists,’ Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today, pointing out the results of local elections in the newly created Union Territory the first elections to be held there in two years. The rise of the BJP as the single largest party, the Minister said, has shown that the people have shown their preference for the “larger narrative” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. None of the parties in the Gupkar Minister said that the BJP secured 74 seats against the 67 seats of Omar Abdullah’s National Conference, 27 of…