Day: April 13, 2020

India sees highest drop in work, social, household travels due to pandemic: Survey

COVID-19: 80 booked for not wearing masks in Chandigarh

11:14 pm April 13, 2020

Chandigarh: As many as 80 people have been booked so far for not wearing masks at public places in Chandigarh amid the coronavirus outbreak, police said on Monday. Last week, Chandigarh Police had made wearing three-ply masks mandatory in public places and warned that violators would be arrested and booked under section 188 of the […]

UP police book journalist over `fake news’

11:07 pm April 13, 2020

Bhadohi (UP): Police on Monday registered an FIR against four journalists and two others, saying they spread fake news about an incident in which a woman hurled her five children into a river. The editors of news agency IANS and Business Insider and the concerned reporters are mentioned in the FIR, though it does not […]

Assam announces cash dole for tea garden workers

Plucking of tea leaves start in tea estates in Assam

10:58 pm April 13, 2020

Guwahati: Plucking of tea leaves have started in different tea gardens in Assam with 50 per cent of the workers in attendance as per the guidelines laid down by the government for maintaining social distancing and sanitization process to control the spread of COVID-19. With the Central government permitting opening of tea gardens with certain […]

Maha: Tiger found dead in Nagpur, tigress in Yavatmal

Carcass of tiger found in Wayanad

10:56 pm April 13, 2020

Wayanad: The carcass of a five-year-old tiger was found at Kurichiat in the Wayanad wildlife division on Monday, forest officials said. The death was caused by an injury in the neck probably caused by a wire snare or a fence, the officials said. “There is an injury mark in the neck, which could have been […]

Mumbai case surge: Dharavi to get 2 COVID care centres

Six new COVID-19 cases, including one death, in Dharavi

10:50 pm April 13, 2020

Mumbai: Six new coronavirus cases, including one death, were reported from Dharavi on Monday, taking the total number of the people affected by the infection in Mumbai’s biggest slum sprawl to 49, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official said. With this, the total number of deaths in Dharavi has gone up to five, he said. […]