Day: April 16, 2020

Amid lockdown, Rohtak youth marries Mexican girlfriend

Amid lockdown, Rohtak boy marries Mexican girlfriend

12:58 am April 16, 2020

Chandigarh: As tales of cancelled weddings abound during the countrywide lockdown, a boy from Haryana married his girlfriend — a Mexican citizen — at a district court this week although there was no celebration and social distancing was followed. Niranjan Kashyap, 22, and Dana Joheri got married on April 13 under the Special Marriage Act […]

COVID-19 patient arrested for assaulting doctor

12:51 am April 16, 2020

Hyderabad: A 23-year-old COVID-19 patient was arrested here on Wednesday for allegedly assaulting a doctor at the state-run Gandhi Hospital here on April 1 and produced before a local court through video conference. He was later remanded to judicial custody. The court directed that he be kept at the newly created jail ward in the […]

UK airlifts 268 stranded foreign nationals

12:45 am April 16, 2020

Thiruvananthapuram: Amid the nation-wide lockdown, the first flight from Kerala to the UK took off on Wednesday evening with 268 tourists who had been stranded in south India since the coronavirus pandemic put a check on public transportation. The British Airways plane left the state capital at 7.30 pm with London as the destination and […]

Three final offers received for PMC Bank resolution, says RBI Guv

No bail for PMC Bank scam accused

12:42 am April 16, 2020

Mumbai: A court here on Wednesday rejected a temporary bail plea of former Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank director Jasvinder Singh Banwait. Banwait was arrested in March by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai Police in connection with the alleged scam at the PMC Bank. He had sought interim bail citing ill-health […]

63 new coronavirus cases in Pune, five deaths

12:34 am April 16, 2020

Pune: Sixty-three new cases of coronavirus came to light in Pune on Wednesday while five patients died since Tuesday night, a health official said. With this, the total number of coronavirus cases in Pune district reached 437 and the death toll rose to 43. “As far as Pune city and rural parts are concerned, the […]