New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday held a flurry of meetings to fine tune arrangements for evacuation of thousands of stranded Indians from abroad under a mega exercise beginning Thursday. Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla held a video-conference with chief secretaries of a number of states as part of efforts to ensure […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in a virtual Vesak global celebrations on Buddha Purnima on Thursday. He will deliver the keynote address in the morning, an official statement said in Wednesday. Buddha Purnima celebrations are being held virtually due to COVID-19 pandemic. The event is being organised in the honour of the […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: A woman and a man were arrested for allegedly killing her husband in northwest Delhi, police said on Wednesday. On the intervening night of Friday and Saturday when Sharat Dass (46) was asleep at his house in Jelarwala Bagh, Anita called Sanjay to her house and they smothered Dass to death with the […]
Read MoreKolkata: Very little commercial activity during the ongoing lockdown and rain on Wednesday morning have improved the air quality in the city with the average index remaining in the ‘good’ category, an official said. The average air quality index (AQI) during the day was 16 (PM 2.5) at a monitoring station in Jadavpur, 18 in […]
Read MoreHyderabad: Eleven fresh cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Telangana on Wednesday, taking the number of people infected by the virus in the state to 1107. No death occurred today and the number of people who succumbed to the virus continued to be 29, a COVID-19 bulletin said. It said 20 people were cured/discharged […]
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