Day: July 17, 2020

Delhi Metro bags Japan Society of Civil Engineers' award

DMRC starts work on underground section of Phase 4

10:36 pm July 17, 2020

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation on Friday commenced construction work on the underground section of its Phase 4 project, officials said. The work began on the underground section of the 28.92 km-long Janakpuri West R K Ashram Marg corridor. This corridor consists of 7.74 km-long underground lines. DMRC’s Managing Director Mangu Singh and […]

Rajnath Singh reviews security situation in J-K

10:28 pm July 17, 2020

Srinagar: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday asked the armed forces to a give befitting reply to any “misadventure” by Pakistan as he reviewed the overall security scenario in Jammu and Kashmir with top military brass, officials said. At a high-level meeting, the defence minister also asked the armed forces to maintain a strict vigil […]

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

Record 949 new coronavirus cases in Gujarat, 17 deaths

10:19 pm July 17, 2020

Ahmedabad: Gujarat recorded a highest single day spike of 949 coronavirus cases on Friday, taking the tally to 46,516, the state health department said. Seventeen persons with the viral infection died across the state since Thursday evening, taking the death toll to 2,108, it said in a statement. 770 persons recovered and were discharged from […]

Odisha man flaunts Rs 3.5-lakh gold face mask

10:06 pm July 17, 2020

Bhubaneswar : At a time when face masks have become an inseparable part of life to protect oneself from contracting the coronavirus, a 55-year-old businessman in Odisha has procured one which is made of gold and cost him Rs 3.5 lakh. He got inspiration from a news report about a businessman in Maharashtra’s Pune district […]

UP: Female foetus found dumped in Noida village

8:50 pm July 17, 2020

Noida (UP): A female foetus was found dumped in a village in Noida, police said on Friday. A case against unidentified person has been registered by the police. Locals spotted the five to six-month-old foetus lying in a vacant plot of land near a school in Bhangel village on Thursday evening and informed the police, […]