Day: June 18, 2020

Centre targets 6 lakh rapid COVID-19 tests in Delhi; to add 500 ventilators, 650 ambulances

5:13 pm June 18, 2020

New Delhi The Centre plans to conduct six lakh rapid antigen COVID-19 tests in Delhi at 169 new facilities being set up in the capital where 50,000 kits have already been supplied, Union Minister G Kishan Reddy said on Thursday. He also said the central government is going to provide 500 additional ventilators and 650 […]

Anger in cabinet over phone tapping: Awhad

‘Scrap Chinese firm’s contract for Metro project’

4:42 pm June 18, 2020

Mumbai: In the wake of the killing of 20 Indian soldiers in a violent clash with Chinese troops in Ladakh, Maharashtra NCP minister Jitendra Awhad has asked the Centre to scrap the Delhi-Meerut Metro work contract bagged by a Chinese firm. “After the talk of Atmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India), the contract has been awarded to […]

Police traces 16-year-old girl who eloped with lover

Lovers commit suicide by jumping before train in UP

4:33 pm June 18, 2020

Lalitpur (UP): Two lovers allegedly committed suicide by jumping before a running train in Jakhlon police station area here, police said on Thursday. Lalitpur SP M M Beg said the bodies were recovered from Bina-Jhansi train track near Khiriyamishr village on Wednesday. They were identified as Ballu (22) and Rashmi (18), the SP said, adding […]

Fire incident reported in Rohini court

2:52 pm June 18, 2020

New Delhi: A fire broke out in the record room on the third floor of Rohini court on Thursday morning, a Delhi Fire Service official said. No injury or casualty was reported so far, the official said. A call about the fire was received around 9.41 am after which 10 fire tenders were rushed to […]

‘Mahatma Gandhi’s statue in Amsterdam vandalised’

2:51 pm June 18, 2020

Amsterdam: A statue of Mahatma Gandhi has been vandalised here in the capital of Netherlands by unknown miscreants with graffiti and spray painting, amid a wave of attacks on controversial figures following the protests around the world after the custodial killing of African-American George Floyd, according to media reports. The statue of Gandhi on the […]