Delhi Police has beefed up security on Burari ground, the designated spot for farmers' protest on the outskirts of the national capital, even as Surjeet Singh Phul, the Punjab unit chief of Bharatiya Kisan Union Krantikari (BKU), termed the venue as an "open jail".Vijayanta Arya, DCP North West, said that basic facilities are being provided to the farmers staying at the Burari ground."Burari ground has been designated for the farmers who are coming from different parts of the country to protest. Police have been deployed here for their security. We are also in touch of civic authorities to pr

The Anti Narcotics Cell of Crime-Branch Crime Investigation Department (CBCID) on Saturday arrested a drug peddler after he was allegedly found to be in possession of Codeine Phosphate cough syrup bottles worth over Rs 4 lakhs in Mumbai's Shivaji Nagar area."The peddler was arrested and 2,053 Codeine Phosphate cough syrup bottles worth more than Rs 4 lakhs were recovered from him, in Shivaji Nagar area of Mumbai, Maharashtra," Anti Narcotics Cell, Ghatkopar unit, CBCID, Mumbai said in an official statement.Further investigation in the matter is underway.

British Columbia's top doctor has a message for people who don't follow a provincial order to wear a mask in indoor public spaces: order takeout, shop online or stay home. Dr. Bonnie Henry says she's saddened after hearing about store and restaurant employees facing aggressive customers who refuse to wear masks as COVID-19 numbers rise. The RCMP say they arrested a shopper at a Walmart in Dawson Creek this week after he allegedly assaulted an employee who asked him to wear a mask. Henry says B.C. set another single-day record with 911 cases of COVID-19. There have been a total of 30,884 diagno

A man has died after a confrontation with Vancouver police and the office that handles all cases of police-involved death or serious injury in British Columbia is investigating. Police say it happened at about 6 p.m. Thursday night in a fast-food restaurant at the east end of False Creek. A man had been asked to leave the restaurant's bathroom and became agitated. Officers were called and say the man was aggressive and combative when he came out of the bathroom, leading to a physical altercation. An email from police says the man went into medical distress and died, despite the efforts of par

Champion ice-dancers Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue are among 114 athletes, artists, scholars and community leaders named to the Order of Canada today. Gov. Gen. Julie Payette's office announced the new honourees this morning. Others in the group include Indigenous writer Thomas King, winemaker John Peller, dancer and choreographer Elizabeth Langley, geriatrician Roger Wong, Cree elder Doreen Spence and ex-politicians Bill Graham and Allan Rock. Moir and Virtue catapulted to national stardom with their gold-medal performances at the Winter Olympics in 2018. They're being honoured for their athle

Premier John Horgan says, "belligerent people should grow up" and follow COVID-19 measures. Horgan says he recently witnessed a group of customers abusing two young waiters and a receptionist at a restaurant when they wanted to sit at one table. He says similar behaviour will not be tolerated in the retail sector because police can be called to remove aggressive customers not wearing a mask. Provincial health officer Doctor Bonnie Henry introduced an order recently to make masks mandatory in all indoor public spaces.

Swedish authorities said Friday they need more information before deciding whether to reopen the case of a 1994 ferry sinking in the Baltic that killed 852 people, in one of Europe's deadliest peacetime disasters at sea. A TV documentary aired Sept. 28 on the M/S Estonia includes video images from the wreck site showing a hole in the hull measuring 4 metres (13 feet) on the starboard side. A 1997 report concluded that it sank after the bow door locks failed in a storm, and flatly rejected the theory of a hole, which has long been the focus of speculation about a possible explosion on board. T

A temporary drive-thru site to test for COVID-19 was supposed to close Saturday in Whitehorse but will now be open for an extra two weeks as new cases of the virus have been confirmed. Officials in Yukon announced the measure following news that cases of the illness had reached 39 yesterday afternoon and then, just hours later, officials announced another three confirmed cases to bring the total to 42. Health Minister Pauline Frost says the drive-thru testing option has been very successful and she wants to thank health-care staff who have been working in the cold at a car wash. The Yukon gov

Welcoming the protesting farmers, who were allowed to enter Delhi through the Tikri border to hold demonstrations on Nirankari Samagam Ground in the Burari area against the new farm laws, the Aam Adami Party on Friday said that it will make all the necessary arrangements for them. "The Aam Aadmi Party welcomes the farmers to Delhi. We will take full care of the farmers and make all the necessary arrangements for them. We stand with the farmers in this battle. Jai Kisan," the party tweeted from its official handle. Prior to that, the party also disclosed the capital territory government's deci