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Assam Reports 97 New COVID-19 Cases on Wednesday: Live Breaking News Headlines & Coronavirus Updates, December 16, 2020
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16 Dec, 20:01 (IST)
Cyber Crime unit last night busted an international call centre & arrested 54 persons involved in a fraud, where 4,500 foreign victims were defrauded of around Rs 90-100 crores. Call centre was being run by a mastermind based in Dubai: Anyesh Roy, DCP, Cyber Cell, Delhi Police
16 Dec, 19:57 (IST)
57.22% voter turnout (Kashmir-39.52%, Jammu-71.93%) recorded in the seventh phase of District Development Council (DDC) elections across Jammu and Kashmir today. 3,93,200 voters cast their votes: J&K State Election Commission.
16 Dec, 17:39 (IST)
TMC leader Suvendu Adhikari has resigned from the membership of West Bengal Legislative Assembly. He is likely to join the BJP.
16 Dec, 15:21 (IST)
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved revised cost estimate of North Eastern Region Power System Improvement Project for six States for strengthening of the Intra-State Transmission & Distribution Systems:
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Union Cabinet decisions.
16 Dec, 15:19 (IST)
LDF, UDF leading in 3 each out of 6 corporations in Kerala: State Election Commission.
16 Dec, 14:27 (IST)
Extend my warmest congratulations to the Government and people of Bangladesh on Bijoy Dibosh. Led by Bangabandhu, Bangladesh’s historic struggle and sacrifice will continue to be an inspiration for those fighting oppression and genocide: External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar
16 Dec, 13:58 (IST)
Mumbai: Esplanade Court grants bail to Republic TV CEO Vikas Khanchandani. He was under police custody till December 15th in alleged TRP manipulation case.
16 Dec, 13:53 (IST)
Odisha recorded 407 new COVID-19 cases, 392 recoveries and 5 deaths on December 15, as per State Health Department. Total cases: 3,24,796.Total recoveries: 3,19,850. Active cases: 3,073. Death toll: 1,820.
LDF, UDF leading in 3 each out of 6 corporations in Kerala: State Election Commission.
16 Dec, 14:27 (IST)
Extend my warmest congratulations to the Government and people of Bangladesh on Bijoy Dibosh. Led by Bangabandhu, Bangladesh’s historic struggle and sacrifice will continue to be an inspiration for those fighting oppression and genocide: External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar
16 Dec, 13:58 (IST)
Mumbai: Esplanade Court grants bail to Republic TV CEO Vikas Khanchandani. He was under police custody till December 15th in alleged TRP manipulation case.
16 Dec, 13:53 (IST)
Odisha recorded 407 new COVID-19 cases, 392 recoveries and 5 deaths on December 15, as per State Health Department. Total cases: 3,24,796.Total recoveries: 3,19,850. Active cases: 3,073. Death toll: 1,820.
16 Dec, 13:44 (IST)
Family Welfare Department of Uttar Pradesh cancels all leaves of officers and employees of the Directorate General, in view of "proposed COVID-19 vaccination in the months of December 2020 and January 2021, during which their cooperation is needed."
16 Dec, 13:24 (IST)
BCCI announces Team India’s playing XI for the first Border-Gavaskar Test against Australia starting tomorrow in Adelaide.
16 Dec, 12:51 (IST)
Kerala local body poll results: As per trends, NDA leading in 22 wards, LDF- 26, UDF -4, in Thiruvananthapuram Corporation. BJP District President VV Rajesh wins from Poojappura ward.
16 Dec, 12:22 (IST)
Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on a PIL seeking "Uniform grounds of divorce" for all citizens of the country.
16 Dec, 12:11 (IST)
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16 Dec, 12:51 (IST)
Kerala local body poll results: As per trends, NDA leading in 22 wards, LDF- 26, UDF -4, in Thiruvananthapuram Corporation. BJP District President VV Rajesh wins from Poojappura ward.
16 Dec, 12:22 (IST)
Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on a PIL seeking "Uniform grounds of divorce" for all citizens of the country.
16 Dec, 12:11 (IST)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets former Karnataka chief minister and Janata Dal (Secular) leader H D Kumaraswamy on his 61st birthday.
Mumbai, December 16: The nurses' union of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) called off the strike which they launched a day earlier, seeking the implementation of 23 demands raised by them. The indefinite stir was ended, hours after the Delhi High Court restrained the nurses from continuing the strike amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Kerala and Maharashtra - account for 56 percent of total active cases of COVID-19 in the country, according to Union Health Ministry.
Nitish Kumar government on Tuesday approved a proposal for providing free anti-coronavirus vaccine to all the people of the state. The decision was taken at the first meeting of the cabinet.
Gmail suffers a "significant" disruption, just a day after Google went down during a massive outage of the internet giant's platform.
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