Day: April 2, 2020

Rajasthan: Couple killed in road accident

8:14 pm April 2, 2020

Kota: A couple was killed when an unidentified vehicle ran over them on the Bhawanimandi Misroli highway near Jhalawar’s Kuradiya Joga village on Thursday morning, police said. The deceased have been identified as Ateek Mohammad (52) and his wife Sayara Bee (48), residents of Misroli in Jhalawar district. Misroli SHO Harlal Gurjar said the couple […]

COVID-19: 44 Texas University students test positive after spring break trip

5:35 pm April 2, 2020

Houston: Forty four students of the University of Texas in the US have tested positive for COVID-19 after they returned from a spring break trip to Mexico, avoiding social-distancing guidelines amid the coronavirus pandemic. The university, which is in Austin, had previously confirmed only 28 coronavirus cases. About 70 students flew on a chartered plane […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

About 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat members, primary contacts quarantined

5:26 pm April 2, 2020

New Delhi: About 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their primary contacts have been quarantined till now across the country in view of the coronavirus infection, a senior home ministry official said on Thursday. Punya Salila Srivastava, a joint secretary in the Union Home Ministry, told reporters during a daily briefing that out of about 2,000 such Tablighi Jamaat members […]

Migrants arrival in Bihar posed unmanageable crisis but it was averted: Sushil Modi

5:21 pm April 2, 2020

New Delhi: The unexpected arrival of tens of thousands of migrants amid the lockdown posed an “unmanageable” crisis for Bihar but it was defused with a number of effective measures, state Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi said on Thursday. The state government decentralised its efforts by turning one school in every panchayat into a […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

COVID-19 lockdown: Stranded Afghans in Akola sent to Delhi

5:16 pm April 2, 2020

Akola: Three Afghan nationals, who were stranded in Maharashtra’s Akola city due to the COVID-19 lockdown, were sent to Delhi, police said on Thursday. The three Afghan nationals had come to the city on business on March 9, but had no way of returning to their country after the nationwide lockdown was announced, an official […]