New Delhi, Jun 10: Asian Games gold medal-winning former boxer Dingko Singh, who inspired a generation of Indian pugilists with his swashbuckling ring craft and flamboyant personality, died on Thursday after a long battle with liver cancer. He was 42 and had been fighting the disease since 2017. […]
Leh, Jun 10: Ladakh reported 55 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the virus tally in the union territory to 19,385, officials said on Wednesday. The UT has recorded a total of 195 Covid-related deaths 141 in Leh district and 54 in Kargil district, they said, adding 18,265 patients (94 […]
Many more men in India have received COVID-19 vaccines than women, government data showed on Tuesday, highlighting gender disparity in the country’s immunisation drive that has also disadvantaged the rural population. India has partly or fully vaccinated about 101 million men, nearly 17% more than women. Men account […]
Rizwanudeen, a 37-year old worker who delivers food in the southern Indian city of Chennai, struggles to pay his rent and loan instalments at the end of every month as he has been hit by the double whammy of higher fuel prices and fewer food orders. Millions of […]
Mumbai, Jun 9: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday said the Centre’s approach against coronavirus, which is the society’s biggest enemy at present, should be “like a surgical strike” instead of standing at the borders waiting for the virus to come out. A division bench of Chief Justice […]
Kalaburagi, Jun 9: A driver of a private ambulance allegedly attempted to rape a COVID-19 patient at a government hospital here, following which he was arrested. According to police, the accused entered the cardiology department of the Gulbarga Institute of Medical Science, where the 25-year-old victim was undergoing […]
New Delhi, Jun 9: Congress leader Jitin Prasada joined the BJP on Wednesday, in a shot in the arm for the saffron party as it prepares for assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh scheduled for early next year. He joined the BJP in presence of Union minister Piyush Goyal […]
A court in India ordered state and federal officials on Monday to draw up plans for sweeping reforms to respect LGBT rights, in a ruling that went far beyond the narrow terms of a case brought by a lesbian couple who said they had been harassed by police. […]
India will need to spend an additional 800 billion rupees ($11 billion) to provide free vaccine and food to millions of people devastated by a deadly wave of coronavirus infections, Bloomberg News said on Tuesday. The government of the world’s second most populous nation will earmark an additional […]
Kota (Rajasthan) June 8: A 45-year-old journalist died in a head-on collision between two motorcycles here on Tuesday, police said. Om Prakesh Sharma, a resident of Digod town in Kota district, worked for a Hindi newspaper. The accident took place near a petrol pump around 9.45 am, SHO […]
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