Day: May 9, 2020

Confusion over Delhi’s COVID-19 toll as govt data, figures from hospitals don’t match

8:14 pm May 9, 2020

New Delhi: Confusion prevailed over the number of deaths due to coronavirus in the national capital, with data from four hospitals showing that 92 people succumbed to the infection as against 68 fatalities reported by the Delhi government. The toll of 68 shared by the Delhi government in its health bulletin on Friday is based […]

No more demand for Shramik Special trains, says Railways

5 special trains to bring back 5,000 stranded Odias

8:11 pm May 9, 2020

Bhubaneswar: Five special trains will start journey from three states on Saturday to bring back 5,000 stranded Odia people, a day after the Supreme Court allowed the return of migrants to Odisha, officials said here. The Supreme Court on Friday stayed an interim order of the Orissa High Court which had asked the state government […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Robot to lend helping hand at Chandrapur hospital

8:04 pm May 9, 2020

Chandrapur (Maha): A robot has been inducted into service at the Chandrapur civil hospital, and it could be used for collecting swab samples for COVID-19 test with some modifications in near future, an official said. District collector Dr Kunal Khemnar handed over the “medi-rover robot”, which can be used for handing food or medicines to […]

Women power to the fore in evacuation mission

8:02 pm May 9, 2020

Kochi: Woman power came to the fore as the massive exercise to evacuate Indian citizens stranded abroad in various countries continued on Saturday with two flights to Malaysia and Oman being helmed by women. Two women-Captain Kavitha Rajkumar and Captain Bindu Sebastian- commanded the Air India Express flights operated today from Tiruchirapalli and Kochi to […]

Policeman dies of coronavirus infection in Nashik

7:48 pm May 9, 2020

Mumbai: A 51-year-old police constable who had tested positive for coronavirus died in Maharashtra’s Nashik district on Saturday afternoon, an official said. This is the sixth death of a police personnel due to COVID-19 in the state, he said. The constable, a resident of Nashik city, was deputed on security duty in Malegaon town in […]