Day: June 17, 2020

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

OPD, ER dept to continue at Hindu Rao Hospital

6:38 pm June 17, 2020

New Delhi: The emergency department and the OPD at the civic-run Hindu Rao Hospital will continue to function till further orders, authorities on Tuesday said, a day after it was declared a dedicated COVID-19 facility. Chairman of the Standing Committee of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation Jai Prakash inspected Hindu Rao Hospital on Tuesday to […]

Health workers in Nagaland call off protest

3:05 pm June 17, 2020

Kohima: Over 1,800 employees of the National Health Mission in Nagaland called off their indefinite agitation on Wednesday, following assurances from the government to fulfill their demands. The employees, under the banner of the National Health Mission Employees Association Nagaland (NEAN), were on cease work since Sunday, demanding regularisation of their services, pay parity and […]

Afghan college student ends life in Ahmedabad

3:02 pm June 17, 2020

Ahmedabad: A 24-year-old college student from Afghanistan allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree outside a hostel in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad city early on Wednesday, police said. The deceased has been identified as Sekib Fakir, they said. His body was found hanging from a tree outside the boys hostel of Gujarat University on Wednesday […]

COVID-19 positive man dies in J-K; death toll reaches 64

2:59 pm June 17, 2020

Srinagar: A 65-year-old COVID-19 positive man from Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir died at a hospital here on Wednesday, taking the number of fatalities due to the disease in the Union territory to 64, officials said. The man from Feripora area of Shopian, in south Kashmir, died of cardiopulmonary arrest at 4:15 am at […]

Amitabh Bachchan hints at undergoing surgery

Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar pay tribute to soldiers killed in clash with Chinese troops

2:55 pm June 17, 2020

Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, actors Akshay Kumar, Anushka Sharma and others have expressed their deep pain and sadness over the killing of Indian Army personnel during a violent clash with Chinese troops in Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh. Twenty Indian Army personnel, including a colonel, were killed in the clash with Chinese troops in Galwan […]