Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 12 (ANI): The CBI on Saturday said it recorded statements of 7 Mumbai police personnel in Rs 100-crore extortion case.
Kupwara (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], December 12 (ANI): The Imam Association of Jammu and Kashmir organised an interactive session with the students of the madrasa Mahadul Quran Drugmulla area of Kupwara on Friday.
Washington [US], December 12 (ANI): US President Joe Biden on Friday (local time) declared that an emergency exists in Kentucky after it was struck by several tornadoes.
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], December 12 (ANI): Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala has claimed that the government has been trying to politicise the higher educations system in Kerala for the last five years.
Ankara [Turkey], December 12 (ANI/Sputnik): Six cases of the new Omicron coronavirus strain were registered in Turkey, the country's Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said Saturday.
London [UK], December 12 (ANI): With 633 Omicron cases, the UK on Saturday registered the biggest daily increase since the COVID-19 variant was detected in the country.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 12 (ANI): Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Saturday said that National Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar had told 25 years ago that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) does not want unity in the country but his party Shiv Sena realised it in 2019.
New Delhi [India], December 12 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Twitter handle was "very briefly compromised" and was secured later after the matter was escalated to the micro-blogging site, Prime Minister's Office (PMO) informed on Sunday.
Kabul [Afghanistan], December 12 (ANI): Amid the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is paying the salaries of 6,000 medical employees and providing medical equipment for at least 23 public hospitals, an official said.
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 12 (ANI/Xinhua): Israel on Saturday reported 20 new cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, raising the total Omicron cases in the country to 55, according to the Israeli Health Ministry.