Day: June 4, 2020

2 labourers commit suicide in UP’s Banda

2:46 pm June 4, 2020

Banda (UP): Two labourers allegedly committed suicide in separate incidents here, police said on Thursday. While Lalman Nishad (40), who was suffering from TB, hanged himself in Jhajhripurwa village, 65-year-old Dayaram ended his life in a similar manner in Sikri village, they said. Nishad’s son Ramchandra claimed that his father committed suicide as they did […]

Sumeet Vyas, Ekta Kaul blessed with baby boy

2:42 pm June 4, 2020

Mumbai: Actor-couple Sumeet Vyas and Ekta Kaul have become parents to a baby boy. Sumeet, who tied the knot with Ekta in 2018, shared the news in a post on Twitter on Thursday. The actor said they have named their newborn Ved. “It’s a boy. Shall be called Ved. Mamma and Daddy are acting cliche… […]

Case of `rape’ registered against IAS official in Chhattisgarh

2:36 pm June 4, 2020

Raipur: A case was registered against an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer on Wednesday in Chhattisgarh’s Janjgir-Champ district for allegedly raping a 33-year-old woman by threatening to dismiss her husband from the service, police said. Accused Janak Prasad Pathak is former collector of Janjgir-Champa district and currently Director of Land Records. He has not been […]

Govt committed to farmers' welfare, MSP system strengthened, sharp increase in payment to farmers: FM

FCI refutes Scroll report; denies 65 lakh tonnes of food grain rot

1:30 pm June 4, 2020

New Delhi: The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has strongly refuted report published on Wednesday in the online news portal ‘Scroll.in’ with the heading “India let 65 lakh tonnes of grain go to waste in four months, even as the poor went hungry”. Terming the news report as “blatantly unfair” and damaging the organisation’s reputation, […]

CSIR-CMERI develop new indigenous ventilator

1:23 pm June 4, 2020

New Delhi: Researchers at Durgapur-based Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI) have indigenously developed a ventilator amid rising cases of COVID-19. The new ventilator was unveiled in the presence of Prof. (Dr) Harish Hirani, Director, CSIR-CMERI, and Dr Arunangshu Ganguly, Chairman and Managing Director, Health World Hospitals Pvt Ltd, Durgapur. “The bellow design, controllers and […]