Day: February 15, 2020

Focus on fitness going into Olympics: Marijne

7:47 pm February 15, 2020

New Delhi: The Indian women’s hockey team chief coach Sjoerd Marijne has earmarked “fitness” as a key area going into the Tokyo Olympics and said the upcoming training camp will focus on fine-tuning the side’s grey areas. Hockey India on Saturday named a 25-member core probables list for the upcoming senior women national camp, beginning […]

406 people brought back from Wuhan may be released next week if final samples test negative

7:35 pm February 15, 2020

New Delhi: A total of 406 people, who are housed at a quarantine facility of the ITBP after being brought back from China due to coronavirus outbreak there, may be released next week if their final samples turn out to be negative, officials said on Saturday. The final samples of all the people quarantined at […]

Trump campaign releases commercial for Indian-Americans featuring Modi

Gujarat: Over 10,000 policemen to be deployed for Trump road show

7:29 pm February 15, 2020

Ahmedabad: More than 10,000 police personnel, to be led by 25 senior IPS officers, will be deployed for US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s roadshow here in Gujarat on February 24, a senior official said on Saturday. During his maiden two-day visit to India, Trump will take part in a roadshow in […]

Man held for firing in air in west Delhi

7:26 pm February 15, 2020

New Delhi: A man was arrested for allegedly firing in the air in west Delhi’s Tilak Nagar area, police said on Saturday. The accused has been identified as Manpreet Singh, a resident of Paschim Vihar, they said. On the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, police received information that a man was shooting a pistol […]

Fire breaks out in Jaipur’s Indira Market

7:24 pm February 15, 2020

Jaipur: A fire broke out at a firecracker shop in the busy Indira Market here on Saturday and spread to seven other shops in the vicinity, destroying goods worth lakhs, an official said. No casualty occurred in the blaze, which was doused after nearly four hours of firefighting, he said. “The fire, which broke out […]