Day: May 12, 2020

Woman arrested for trying to sell newborn in Delhi

Woman in quarantine centre in Odisha delivers baby

11:32 pm May 12, 2020

Berhampur (Odisha): A 28-year old woman, who was lodged in a COVID quarantine centre in Odisha’s Ganjam district after her return from Surat in Gujarat, gave birth to a baby boy on Tuesday, officials said The woman and her husband have been lodged in the institutional quarantine centre set up at a High School at […]

Latest stimulus package among largest in the world

11:25 pm May 12, 2020

New Delhi: The mega Rs 20 lakh crore stimulus package announced on Tuesday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi includes previously announced measures to save the lockdown-battered economy, and focuses on tax breaks for small businesses as well as incentives for domestic manufacturing. The combined package works out to roughly 10 percent of the GDP, making […]

Woman jumps in front of train with nine-month-old son

Howrah-New Delhi passenger train chugs out again

11:16 pm May 12, 2020

Kolkata: A passenger train chugged out of the Howrah station in West Bengal for Delhi on Tuesday evening after 51 days of shutdown of the Railways operation due to the coronavirus lockdown. The special air-conditioned express left Howrah with more than 1,000 passengers in a partial restoration of passenger services that commenced from Tuesday, according […]

CR's Mumbai-Delhi Rajdhani train to run from Dec 30

Kerala asks for more stoppages for special Rajdhani trains

10:17 pm May 12, 2020

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday sought more stoppages at all major stations in the state for the special Rajdhani trains and preferred non air conditioned trains to prevent spread of COVID-19 infection during travel. “We have requested the Railways to provide more stop pages in the state for the special Rajdhani trains […]

COVID-19 positive Army jawan commits suicide

10:12 pm May 12, 2020

New Delhi: An Army jawan infected with coronavirus was on Tuesday found hanging from a tree at the premises of a hospital here where he was being treated, police said. The 31-year-old jawan was suffering from lung cancer. He was being treated at the military-run Base Hospital here. His sample was taken for COVID-19 test […]