Pathanamthitta, Apr 7: A 23-year-old man was remanded in judicial custody on Wednesday for allegedly fatally assaulting his five-year-old step-daughter, police said. Alex Pandiyan, a native of Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi, was arrested on Monday from his house near here based on a complaint from the child’s mother. Pandiyan, […]
New Delhi, Apr 7: Delhi Agriculture Minister Gopal Rai on Wednesday demanded that the Centre direct the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to set up counters in Narela and Najafgarh markets and start procuring wheat from farmers at minimum support price. Rai said his department had written two […]
The Indian capital of New Delhi on Tuesday imposed a night-time curfew until April 30 with much of the country struggling to contain a second surge in coronavirus infections that has eclipsed the first wave. The next four weeks in India’s fight against COVID-19 will be “very, very […]
Jaipur, Apr 6: A dust storm hurtling at 40 to 50 kilometres per hour accompanied by light rain is likely in Jaisalmer, Nagaur, Bikaner, Ganganagar, Hanumangarh and Churu districts of western Rajasthan on Tuesday, a meteorological department official said. Due to the effect of an active western disturbance, an […]
New Delhi, Apr 6: The daily rise in new coronavirus infections in India remained above 90,000 for the third consecutive day taking the nationwide COVID-19 tally of cases to 1,26,86,049, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. A total of 96,982 cases have been reported […]
India reported a record rise in COVID-19 infections on Monday, becoming the second country after the United States to post more than 100,000 new cases in a day, as politicians stage massive election rallies raising fears of further spreading the virus. Hospitals in the worst affected state, Maharashtra, […]
Kolkata, Apr 5: Hailing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as a fighter who is single-handedly battling against all atrocities, veteran actor and Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan on Monday took a swipe at the BJP, saying no one has ever succeeded by “intimidating” Bengalis. The wife of Bollywood […]
New Delhi, Apr 5: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday alleged that the operation against naxals in Chhattisgarh, in which 22 security personnel were killed, was “incompetently” executed and “poorly designed”. “Our jawans are not cannon fodder to be martyred at will,” Gandhi said on Twitter. Out of […]
New Delhi, Apr 5: The National Commission for Women has created a separate cell to deal with issues in the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. In a statement, it said the special cell will deal with complaints received from the two Union territories and will […]
India’s richest state, Maharashtra, announced stringent COVID-19 restrictions from Monday, after a rapid rise in infections now accounting for more than half the daily new cases in India. The state, which includes the financial capital Mumbai, will shut down malls, cinemas, bars, restaurants and places of worship from […]
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