AURANGABAD: Three persons were arrested for possession of ganja worth over Rs 9 lakh in Maharashtra‘s Aurangabad district on Thursday, police said. Acting on a tip-off, a police team intercepted a two- wheeler and a car on Aurangabad-Jalna road in the early hours of the day, an official said. The […]
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NOIDA: A private hospital here that has around 450 Covid-19 patients on Thursday expressed worry about shortage of oxygen, saying the quantity available with them would not last till Friday. Kailash Group Medical Director Ritu Vohra said their branch in Gautam Buddh Nagar has overstretched its resources and that the […]
The School Education Department began telecasting bridge courses for students of Classes 2 to 9 through Kalvi TV from Thursday. Students of these classes will have two lessons of 30 minutes each telecast during the day till May 10. The bridge courses have been planned in addition to the regular […]
Just a week after the daily Covid case count in Punjab had crossed the 4,000-mark, the state touched a new peak, breaching the 5,000-mark, with 5,456 new Covid cases and 76 deaths in the past 24 hours, as per the state bulletin, Thursday. In testing too, Punjab touched a new […]
BATHINDA: Thousands of activists belonging to farmer organisation BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) on Wednesday headed for the protest sites on the borders of Delhi. The activists left from across Punjab on vehicles hired by local or district units of the organisation, and also on trains. Several women were also among the […]
LUCKNOW: The UP government announced on Wednesday a 28-day paid leave for employees, who are quarantined as suspected or confirmed Covid-19 patients. The leave will be subject to submission of a medical certificate to the employer at the time of joining duty. The beneficiaries include those working in shops, commercial […]
RAJKOT: “I won’t settle for anything less than Rs 9,000. Even I have to pay (part of this amount) to those inside (Rajkot Civil hospital). You will get the bed within 30 minutes.” This is a part of the conversation between an agent and some relatives of a needy Covid-19 […]
Education Minister Adimulapu Suresh on Thursday took objection to the TDP leader Nara Lokesh’s criticism of the government decision to go ahead with the conduct of the 10th Class and Intermediate exams. At a press conference, Mr. Suresh said a lot of thought had gone into the decision to hold […]
Bengaluru has the highest active cases among big cities in the country at 1,37,813 Karnataka on Thursday recorded another big single-day spike in COVID-19 cases, crossing the 25,000 mark. With 25,795 new cases, the total touched 12,47,997. Of the new cases, 15,244 were from Bengaluru Urban. Karnataka’s positivity rate for […]
The shortage of COVID-19 vaccines has triggered a political blame game in the State. It has stoked public anger and caused the Centre and the State to wrangle over the pricing and sourcing of the drug. For once, the ruling LDF and the opposition UDF were on the same page. […]