Day: March 27, 2020

SP founding member Beni Prasad Verma dies

10:36 pm March 27, 2020

Lucknow: Beni Prasad Verma, a founding member of the Samajwadi Party and former Union minister who was considered close to party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, died on Friday. He was 79. The Rajya Sabha MP was not well for past few days. He was admitted to a private hospital in Lucknow, where he died around […]

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Railways helpline numbers to answer COVID-19 queries

10:30 pm March 27, 2020

New Delhi: The Railways has extended the use of its 24-hour helpline numbers — 138 and 139 — to answer queries about the novel coronavirus pandemic. The idea of using the number 138 is to use, in addition to the call-centre-based agent and interactive voice response system (IVRS) services provided through 139, the wide reach […]

Ten-month-old baby tests positive for COVID-19

10:27 pm March 27, 2020

Mangaluru: A 10-month-old baby from a village in Dakshina Kannada district has tested positive for COVID-19, health officials said. The baby was admitted to a private hospital at Derlakatte here on March 23 with high fever and acute respiratory illness. The throat swab was sent to the lab for testing the next day and it […]

Pune: Sex workers seek to resume work with caution, SOPs

Sex workers face uncertain future in COVID-19 time

10:24 pm March 27, 2020

Kolkata: More than one lakh sex workers of Sonagachi in north Kolkata, Asia’s largest red light area, are now staring at an uncertain future and possible starvation as the COVID-19 outbreak has thrown them out of business. The Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, an umbrella organisation of the state’s sex workers having over 1,30,000 registered members, […]

Delhi Police allows delivery of food, groceries

10:17 pm March 27, 2020

New Delhi: Delhi Police on Friday issued an order approving smooth delivery of essential goods, including food, groceries and medicines, in the city during the coronavirus lockdown. Several e-commerce firms and food delivering companies have been complaining that police was not allowing them to ply on roads since Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day […]