Day: May 16, 2020

CRPF jawan kills wife, 2 children in Allahabad

1:56 pm May 16, 2020

New Delhi: A CRPF jawan posted at Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh allegedly shot dead his wife and two children on Saturday, officials said. They said the incident was reported from the Group Centre of the force in Allahabad early morning. Constable V K Yadav has shot dead his wife, a daughter and son using a […]

PMO announces ex gratia for UP road accident victims

Kejriwal condoles death of migrants in accident in UP

1:51 pm May 16, 2020

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that he was deeply disturbed by the death of labourers in an accident in Uttar Pradesh’s Auraiya and called for urgent steps to mitigate the plights of migrant workers travelling to their native states during the lockdown. His deputy Manish Sisodia said courage should be […]

Centre's new agri laws "farmer-friendly", says Chouhan

Nine districts in MP become coronavirus-free: Official

1:46 pm May 16, 2020

Bhopal: Nine districts in Madhya Pradesh, which had earlier reported COVID-19 cases, have now become coronavirus-free, a state government official has said. During a meeting held on Friday to review the COVID-19 situation in the state, Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Health, Mohammed Suleman, said that the nine districts- Barwani, Agar-Malwa, Shajapur, Sheopur, Alirajpur, Harda, Shahdol, […]

Costa Rica seeks unity for COVID fight as WHO assembly looms

1:41 pm May 16, 2020

Geneva: Costa Rica’s president said Friday that COVID-19 can only be defeated if countries shun nationalism and aren’t selfish, urging access to diagnostics and treatment tools for everyone as a major meeting of the World Health Organization’s membership looms next week. Carlos Alvarado joined WHO officials for an online news conference to outline a worldwide […]

US to donate ventilators to India to fight coronavirus: Trump

1:36 pm May 16, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump has announced that the US will donate a lot of ventilators to India to help it fight the “invisible enemy”, moments after he underlined the close partnership between the two countries and called Prime Minister Narendra Modi his “good friend”. Trump also said the US and India were cooperating to develop […]