Day: April 30, 2020

MP: Cop attacked by colleagues in drunken brawl

8:27 pm April 30, 2020

Satna (MP): A 52-year-old head constable was allegedly attacked by two of his colleagues in a drunken brawl in Madhya Pradesh‘s Satna district, police said on Thursday. The incident came to light in the early hours of Thursday when a few passersby found head constable Ram Bahadur lying on the road in a grievously injured […]

Arunachal gets its first COVID-19 testing lab

8:23 pm April 30, 2020

Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh Health Minister Alo Libang on Thursday inaugurated the state’s first laboratory at a hospital near here for conducting COVID-19 tests, making it the third state after Assam and Mizoram in the north-east region to have such facility. The laboratory was inaugurated at the state-run Tomo Riba Institute of Health and Medical Sciences […]

Rupee zooms 57 paise to end at 75.09 against US dollar

8:20 pm April 30, 2020

Mumbai: The rupee strengthened by 57 paise to finish at a one-month high of 75.09 per US dollar on Thursday, buoyed by foreign fund inflows and a robust trend in the equity market. The greenback weakening overseas and optimism over a COVID-19 drug trial in the US further supported the local unit, forex traders said. […]

Wearing face masks mandatory in Srinagar from May 1

8:17 pm April 30, 2020

Srinagar: Authorities in the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir have made wearing face masks mandatory in all public places from Friday, officials said. “From May 1, let’s please make it sure to wear face mask at all times, at all places of contact. We will ensure to make masks available to everyone. Do remember: […]

Nearly 15,000 guest workers go home from Tamil Nadu

Uttarakhand govt gears up to bring back stranded people

8:01 pm April 30, 2020

Dehradun: The Uttarakhand government on Thursday said it is preparing an action plan to bring back its citizens stranded in other parts of the state due to the coronavirus lockdown. Everything will soon be in place and the process of bringing people back and sending those stuck in the state to their respective destinations will […]