Day: December 17, 2020

A Paris court on Wednesday convicted a former Vatican ambassador to France of sexually assaulting five men in 2018 and 2019, and handed him a suspended 8-month prison sentence.

South Korea reported a record daily rise in novel coronavirus cases on Wednesday and the Prime Minister issued an urgent call for more hospital beds to cope with the country’s worst outbreak since the start of the pandemic.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced a referendum to add the fight against climate change and the need to preserve the environment into the French Constitution.

The Ram temple in Ayodhya will be built using domestic funds collected from the general public through a mass contact programme as its trust doesn’t have required approvals for accepting donations from abroad, general secretary of the trust Champat Rai said on Wednesday.

Icy winds swept North India on Wednesday, with Amritsar in Punjab reporting the lowest minimum temperature in the plains, while dense fog engulfed several parts of Uttar Pradesh, where eight people died when a bus collided with a gas tanker amid reduced visibility.

India dropped one spot to 131 among 189 countries in the 2020 human development index, according to a report released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Prabhas and Pooja Hegde have resumed the shooting of their upcoming film, Radhe Shyam in Hyderabad.

Shakeela is a woman-centric Tamil film, inspired by a true story of a well known adult star of the South Indian film industry who rose to fame in the 1990’s because of her portrayal of a sex siren as she did umpteen porn films that had an audience of its own.

Trailer of Nobel Peace, the winner of Best Film (Jury Award) at 10th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Fest 2020, is out on YouTube.

Actor Vijay will begin the shoot from March 2021.