Day: April 23, 2020

Delhi Metro bags Japan Society of Civil Engineers' award

CISF Delhi Metro resumption plan: Face masks must, Aarogya Setu e-pass; no entry if flu symptoms

9:42 pm April 23, 2020

New Delhi Passengers using the Delhi Metro, post resumption of operations, will have to take out any metallic item on their body before frisking, use face masks, have the ‘Aarogya Setu’ app, but those with flu-like symptoms won’t be allowed, as per a proposal prepared by the CISF on Thursday. The paramilitary force that guards […]

Damoh: Six-year-old girl raped, her eyes damaged by accused

9:35 pm April 23, 2020

Bhopal: A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh by an unidentified person, who also damaged her eyes, a police official said on Thursday. The incident took place at a village in Jabera tehsil on Wednesday evening when the minor was playing outside her house with other children, police said. “At […]

Villagers kill two leopards in UP’s Bahraich

9:31 pm April 23, 2020

Bahraich (UP): Two leopards were killed by villagers in two separate incidents near the Katarniaghat wildlife sanctuary here on Thursday, police said. Divisional Forest Officer G P Singh said in the first incident, a leopardess attacked a Majhra village resident, Keshav Ram, when he was working in his fields. Hearing his cries, villagers surrounded the […]

Govt freezes DA, DR hike for employees, pensioners till July 2021

9:29 pm April 23, 2020

New Delhi The government on Thursday froze inflation-linked allowance for its 1.1 crore employees and pensioners, a move states are likely to replicate, helping save a combined Rs 1.2 lakh crore that could be used to combat the coronavirus crisis. Last month, the government had announced a 4 per cent increase in dearness allowance (DA) […]

Mumbai case surge: Dharavi to get 2 COVID care centres

Dharavi’s tally of COVID-19 patients crosses 200-mark

9:27 pm April 23, 2020

Mumbai: The number of coronavirus positive patients in Dharavi area of Mumbai crossed the 200- mark on Thursday after 25 new cases were detected, a civic official said. With these new cases, the tally of patients in this densely-populated slum area of Mumbai has reached 214, the official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. […]