London: Nations across Europe moved to reimpose tougher measures to stem a new wave of COVID-19 infections spurred by the highly transmissible omicron variant, including a new nationwide lockdown introduced by the Dutch government.
At least 12 people were killed and an equal number injured here on Saturday when a massive blast, apparently triggered by a gas explosion in a sewage system, ripped through the premises of a private bank situated on it, according to media reports.
Rs 75 lakh cash, three buildings, four plots detected from revenue officer's possession in Odisha
Belthangady: Body of man who went missing on Saturday found in Nethravathi waters in Belalu
Delhi doctor cheated of ₹22.7 lakh in fake stock trading app scam; two arrested
Puttur: BJP expels leader PG Jagannivas Rao for not getting accused son to marry victim
Finish all projects without delay, says Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah
Capgemini employee killed, three injured in gas cylinder blast at Bengaluru PG
NESO demands capital punishment for those responsible for killing Tripura student in Dehradun
Sudden inspection of Mangaluru jail; police seize mobile phones, SIM cards, chargers
Stampede at ‘Bekal Beach Festival’: One killed, more than 15 viewers injured
BJP has given free hand to mining mafias in Haryana: Surjewala
Union Civil Aviation Minister flags off next-generation helicopter Dhruv NG in Bengaluru
UP: Farmer shot dead over land dispute in Firozabad, brother injured
An Indian-origin couple was on Friday jailed by a Singapore court for repeat offences relating to the hiring of a maid despite being blacklisted by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and obstructing justice, local media reported.
Washington: Senators gave final congressional approval Thursday to a bill barring imports from China's Xinjiang region unless businesses can prove they were produced without forced labour, overcoming initial hesitation from the White House and what supporters said was opposition from corporations.
Tokyo: Twenty-seven people are feared dead after a fire broke out in a building in Osaka in western Japan, fire department officials said Friday.
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 topped 800,000 on Tuesday, a once-unimaginable figure seen as doubly tragic, given that more than 200,000 of those lives were lost after the vaccine became available practically for the asking last spring.
Port-Au-Princ (Haiti): A truck carrying gasoline exploded in northern Haiti, killing more than 40 people and injuring dozens of others, officials and news reports said Tuesday.
A magnitude 7.3 undersea earthquake struck off Indonesia's Flores Island on Tuesday, and the country's meteorological agency warned that tsunami waves are possible.
Beijing: China has reported its first case of Omicron variant of COVID-19 amid a spike in coronavirus infections stated to be that of new Delta strain "sub-lineage AY.4", prompting authorities to bar millions of people in the eastern province from travelling.
London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday confirmed the UK's first death from the Omicron variant of coronavirus, the first known fatality from the highly transmissible variant of COVID-19 in the world.
