Pune: Pune district in Maharashtra reported 390 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking its COVID-19 tally to 11,202, a health official said on Friday. The death toll reached 471 with 11 succumbing to the infection, he said. “Of the 390 cases, 273 are in Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) limits, which now has […]
Read MoreShimla: A court here on Friday granted bail to the Punjab firm employee arrested in connection with a bribery case involving the director of health services in Himachal Pradesh. Special Judge Arvind Malhotra granted bail to Prithvi Singh after he had been remanded in six-day police custody. He was released on conditional bail. Meanwhile, the […]
Read MoreMumbai: The Indian School Certificate Examination (ICSE) board on Friday told the Bombay High Court that it would be holding its standard 10th examinations in July with all safety precautions. The Maharashtra government, on the other hand, said that holding exams now was not feasible in view of the coronavirus pandemic. Advocate General Ashutosh Kumbhakoni […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: Veteran Urdu poet Anand Mohan Zutshi ‘Gulzar’ Dehlvi passed away on Friday afternoon, five days after he recovered from COVID-19. He died at his Noida home, and was a month shy of turning 94. “His corona test came negative on June 7 and we brought him home. Today he had lunch and at […]
Read MoreBeijing: Two Chinese universities have been banned from using a US-developed computer software platform after US authorities put the institutions on an “entity list” over their close ties to People’s Liberation Army (PLA), amid tension between the two countries over the use of high technology. US Department of Commerce has added the Harbin Institute of […]
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