Day: April 29, 2020

Nearly 15,000 guest workers go home from Tamil Nadu

Govt allows movement of stranded people with conditions

11:07 pm April 29, 2020

New Delhi: Migrant workers, tourists, students and other people stranded in different parts of the country were on Wednesday allowed to move to their respective destinations with certain conditions, giving a big relief to the distressed people. In an order, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla said buses shall be used for transport of such groups […]

Former JK special cop shot at by militants

11:00 pm April 29, 2020

Srinagar: Militants shot at and injured a former special police officer on Wednesday in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The ultras barged into the house of Ali Mohammad Beigh at Beigh Mohalla in Kralgund area of the district and opened firing on him, a police official said. He said Beigh was rushed […]

Delhi: 59-yr-old policeman commits suicide

10:56 pm April 29, 2020

New Delhi: A Delhi Police head constable allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in northwest Delhi’s GTB Nagar on Wednesday, police said. The body of Bhoop Singh (59), an ex-serviceman, posted in the IT cell of the Delhi Police was found inside the toilet of barrack no. 8 at the New Police Line complex, they […]

Irrfan Khan: ever the actor, never the star

10:51 pm April 29, 2020

New Delhi: Always the actor, never the star, Irrfan Khan shone bright in a cinematic universe that unspooled from the Hindi film industry across the seas to Hollywood and one he made his very own with powerhouse performances in films as diverse as The Namesake” and Maqbool . Understated and self-effacing, Irrfan was the man […]

Maharashtra: Four test positive for COVID-19 in Udgir

10:39 pm April 29, 2020

Latur: At least four persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Maharashtra‘s Udgir district on Wednesday, a health official said. Four persons, who had come in contact with a 70-year- old woman who died of the infection earlier, tested positive and were undergoing treatment at the sub-district general hospital, the official said. At present, seven coronavirus […]