Day: April 16, 2020

Delhi Congress seeks FIR against AAP govt in shelter home fire incident

11:20 pm April 16, 2020

New Delhi Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Ch. Anil Kumar has demanded that an FIR be registered against the Kejriwal government in regard to a fire at a shelter home at the Yamuna river bank, near Kashmiri Gate, describing it a case of criminal negligence. Kumar at a press conference here on Thursday expressing the […]

Noida based AGVA Medicare manufactures portable ventilator

11:15 pm April 16, 2020

Noida A portable ventilator weighing 2.5 kg has been manufactured by a locally based company. The government of India has placed order for 10,000 such ventilators. Shivam Mishra, sales and marketing manager of AGVA Medicare located at sector-7, says that normal ventilator can be used only in hospitals. Besides, it is costlier and heavier. While […]

Schools re-opened with adherence to COVID-19 norms

Alternative academic calendar of NCERT released

11:06 pm April 16, 2020

New Delhi An alternative academic calendar was released by Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ here on Thursday. Speaking on the occasion the minister said that this calendar provides guidelines to teachers on the use of various technological tools and social media tools available for imparting education in fun-filled, interesting ways, which can be used by learner to […]

Coronavirus brings Kannada film industry to its knees

10:50 pm April 16, 2020

Bengaluru: The lockdown in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic has turned out to be a deeply painful story for the Kannada film industry. Schedules have gone awry following the stay-at-home curbs and operators in Sandalwood, as the industry is popularly known as, say about 100 films under production are affected. They include big budget […]

ASI Harjeet Singh's hand was chopped off with a sword

ASI, whose hand chopped off in attack, promoted as SI

10:42 pm April 16, 2020

Chandigarh: An Assistant sub inspector, whose hand was chopped off in a brutal attack by a group of ‘Nihangs’ in Patiala, has been promoted to the rank of sub inspector in recognition of his exemplary courage, police said on Thursday. Fifty-year-old ASI Harjeet Singh’s hand was chopped off with a sword while three other Punjab […]