Day: April 30, 2020

Rajnath Singh inaugurates bridges in border areas

Nepal nationals sent home via border bridges in Uttarakhand

10:45 pm April 30, 2020

Pithoragarh: Around 1,352 Nepal nationals stuck here due to the lockdown were on Thursday allowed to cross over to their country through the border bridges at Jhoola ghat, Charcha and Balakon in Pithoragarh district. “The Nepalese kept in six camps made in Pithoragarh, Dharchula, Baram, Jaimini and Balakon localities, were taken to border bridges by […]

People advised to use umbrella for social distancing

10:32 pm April 30, 2020

Bhubaneswar: People of Odisha’s Ganjam district have been advised to use the ubiquitous umbrella as a tool for maintaining social distancing, besides beating the heat. Ganjam district Collector Vijay Amruta Kulange shared a cartoon picture in a twitter post, showing how a brolly enforces a distance of around 1.5 metres between two persons and thereby […]

A Kashmir village reports eight new coronavirus cases

10:27 pm April 30, 2020

Srinagar: Nowgam village in Anantnag district is emerging as the latest COVID hotspot in Kashmir as eight new cases were reported on Thursday as the total number of active cases in the southern district of the valley went up to 85, officials said. “We had eight new cases detected in Nowgam area of Shangus. This […]

Nearly 15,000 guest workers go home from Tamil Nadu

First batch of 217 migrant workers return to Odisha from Surat, Kota students on way back

10:20 pm April 30, 2020

Bhubaneswar: The first batch of 217 migrant workers, stranded in Gujarat’s Surat, returned to Odisha after undertaking a 60-hour-long journey, officials said on Thursday. Four buses carrying the migrant workers, who hail from the Ganjam district, reached late on Wednesday night and were immediately quarantined at a facility, said collector Vijay Amruta Kulange. The primary […]

Mumbai case surge: Dharavi to get 2 COVID care centres

COVID-19 cases in Dharavi up by 25 to 369

10:07 pm April 30, 2020

Mumbai: With 25 more persons testing coronavirus positive in Dharavi in Mumbai on Thursday, the tally of such patients in the densely-populated slum area grew to 369, a civic official said. The new cases were found in Shiv Shakti Nagar, Shastri Nagar, PMGP Colony, Dhorwada, Transit camp, Indira Nagar, Muslim Nagar, Chaugule Chawl and some […]