Day: July 2, 2020

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

Complete lockdown in Ballia city from July 3 to 10

11:59 pm July 2, 2020

Ballia : The district administration here imposed a complete lockdown in Ballia city and surrounding areas amid the detection of over 40 coronavirus cases in recent days. District Magistrate Hari Pratap Shahi said all localities in the city and surrounding areas have been declared a containment zone and a complete lockdown has been announced from July 3 […]

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COVID-19: 1,500 teams for door-to-door screening in Noida

11:55 pm July 2, 2020

Noida: The Gautam Buddh Nagar administration on Thursday launched a 10-day surveillance campaign to strengthen coronavirus screening across Noida and Greater Noida with 1,500 health teams involved in it, officials said. Another 40 teams comprising physicians, nurses and lab technicians have been formed to carry out 4,000 tests per day, the officials said. Gautam Buddh Nagar’s nodal officer for COVID-19 response Narendra […]

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Vaccination drive: Jab and job go hand in hand for doctors

Experts explain how Delhi plasma bank will function; who can donate and who can’t

11:49 pm July 2, 2020

New Delhi: With the Delhi government operationalising the “country’s first plasma bank” for COVID-19 patients on Thursday, experts have spelt out the protocol and screening guidelines that will come with the process. Amid rising coronavirus cases, the bank has been established in the premises of the Delhi government-run Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), which will operate from […]

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Canara Bank ‘cheated’ of Rs 174.89 Cr: CBI searches premises of Punjab Basmati Rice Ltd in Amritsar

11:46 pm July 2, 2020

New Delhi: The CBI carried out searches on Thursday at the premises of Punjab Basmati Rice Limited and its directors, booked for allegedly cheating the Canara Bank to the tune of Rs 174.89 crore, officials said The searches took place at the premises of the company office and accused directors Kulwinder Singh Makhani, Jasmeet Kaur and Manjeet Singh Makhani in Punjab’s Amritsar, […]

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IIT-Kharagpur researchers turn Odisha steel plant dumpsites into greenbelt

Chinese app ban to create space for indigenous apps: IIT-KGP experts

11:40 pm July 2, 2020

Kolkata: IIT Kharagpur experts said Thursday the Centre’s decision to ban Chinese mobile apps has created space for indigenous replacements and enabled the institute to work on sponsored projects while helping start- ups. Its director Virendra Kumar Tewari said the start-up ecosystem at the institute’s Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Park can lead the initiative through seed funding and incubation facility. “We […]

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