Day: June 27, 2020

Baghjan gas well site flooded; all work to douse fire on hold

11:38 pm June 27, 2020

Guwahati: All ongoing works to douse a blaze at a damaged gas well in Assam’s Baghjan have been suspended with floodwaters inundating the site and submerging the pumps installed to put out the fire, PSU major Oil India Limited (OIL) said on Saturday. The well number 5 at Baghjan in Tinsukia district has been spewing gas uncontrollably for the last 32 days following […]

Around 400 new COVID-19 cases in Delhi: Kejriwal

COVID-19 death toll started rising in Delhi in June first week due to shortage of beds: Kejriwal

11:31 pm June 27, 2020

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal acknowledged on Saturday that because of a shortage of beds in hospitals for COVID-19 patients in the first week of June, the death toll due to the disease started rising in the national capital, but asserted that there is no such deficiency as of now. Ramping up the number of […]

Lobster prices falling, and they could fall further

11:26 pm June 27, 2020

Portland: Lobster prices are falling in New England as the industry deals with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, and they could drop even more later this summer, industry officials said. The American lobster fishing industry, based mostly in Maine, has had to cope with a supply chain that has been disrupted by the pandemic. Wholesale prices were […]

AIIMS forensic team report lacks credibility, says Rajput's family lawyer

Sushant Singh death probe: Cops quiz YRF’s casting director

11:21 pm June 27, 2020

Mumbai: Police on Saturday questioned a casting director with Yash Raj Films (YRF) at Bandra police station here in connection with the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, an official said. Police are probing whether professional rivalry, if any, was responsible for the actor’s depression who was found hanging at his apartment in Bandra on June 14. The casting director, Shanoo Sharma, reached […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Egypt executes Libyan militant for plotting deadly attack

11:16 pm June 27, 2020

Cairo: Egypt on Saturday executed a Libyan militant convicted of plotting an attack that killed at least 16 police officers in 2017, the military said. Abdel-Rahim al-Mosmari was hanged in a Cairo prison after a military appeals court upheld his death sentence last week, the military said. The deadly attack southwest of the Egyptian capital took place in October […]