Day: December 20, 2021

Elections for Hong Kong’s Legislative Council on Sunday marked the culmination of Beijing’s campaign to rein in the body that had once kept it from imposing its unrestrained will over the semi-autonomous territory.

Raids started this morning at 14 properties linked to former Minister and AIADMK leader P Thangamani in connection with a disproportionate assets case filed against him.

As many as 55 Tamilnadu fishermen were arrested and eight boats seized by Sri Lankan Naval personnel on Sunday following which Chief Minister M K Stalin took up the matter with the Union government to secure their release and all the boats captured so far by the island nation.

Tamilnadu has reported 610 new cases, 4 deaths and 682 recoveries in a day. The total active caseload of coronavirus infection in the State stood at 7,270, said a Health department bulletin on Sunday.

British Brexit Minister David Frost has resigned from the cabinet and will depart in the new year, local media has reported.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged the US to delink the 40 million Afghan citizens from the Taliban and take urgent action to send humanitarian assistance to the war-torn country, Samaa TV reported.

Israel’s Ministry of Health on Sunday said it decided to ban travel to ten more countries to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19.