Happy New Year 2021 Celebrations Live Updates: This is How the World is Welcoming New Year

Rahul Gandhi extends New Year wishes

Rahul Gandhi extends New Year wishes, tweets: "My heart is with the farmers and labourers fighting unjust forces with dignity and honour."

Britain urges 'see in New Year safely at home'

On New Year's Eve, the British government is running ads imploring people not to celebrate with anyone outside their household.

The campaign is urging Britons to “see in the New Year safely at home.”

No parties, no hugging strangers, no mass choruses of “Auld Lang Syne.”

Stephen Powis, medical director of the National Health Service in England, says “COVID loves a crowd”.

Most of the country''s population is under lockdown measures to slow the spread of a new, easily transmissible coronavirus strain. Social gatherings involving multiple households are barred. Police will be patrolling to deter groups planning to celebrate or to mark Britain''s final economic split from the European Union. (AP)

Happy New Year 2021 Celebrations Live Updates: New Year's Eve fireworks are cancelled due to Covid situation in Singapore.

Happy New Year 2021 Celebrations Live Updates: New Delhi Municipal Corporation decorates Connaught Place, wishing  New Year 2021 to people. (ANI)

Happy New Year 2021 Celebrations Live Updates: People celebrate on the eve of the New Year in Durgapur, West Bengal.

Chennai: Napier bridge gets dynamic lighting system to mark new yer celebrations. (PTI)

Maharashtra: Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station and BMC building in Mumbai illuminated on New Years Eve. 

World begins ushering in locked-down New Year

In Australia's largest city, Sydney, fireworks lit up the glittering harbour with a dazzling display at 1300 GMT, but few spectators watched in person 

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