Day: August 13, 2020

298 baggage pieces retrieved from Kozhikode plane crash site

7:37 pm August 13, 2020

New Delhi: Air India Express on Thursday said it has retrieved 298 baggage pieces so far from the plane crash site at the Kozhikode airport with the help of the US-based company Kenyon International. Moreover, it said a total of 92 passengers injured in the plane crash in Kozhikode have been discharged till date from hospitals after “obtaining complete […]

US jobless claims rise to 778,000 as pandemic worsens

US jobless claims fall below 1 million but remain high

7:34 pm August 13, 2020

Washington: The number of laid-off workers applying for unemployment aid fell below 1 million last week for the first time since the pandemic intensified five months ago yet still remains at a high level. The viral pandemic keeps forcing layoffs just as the expiration of a USD 600-a-week federal jobless benefit has deepened the hardships […]

Labourer engaged in installing drainage pipeline buried alive

7:31 pm August 13, 2020

Erode: A 24-year-old labourer died while he was involved in connecting pipes in an underground drain here on Thursday, police said. The worker Anandhan was engaged by the Erode Municipal Corporation on contract to install the pipelines to take the sewage, when the soil caved in and he was buried alive. On seeing this, the other workers […]

Large parts of country likely to receive heavy to very heavy during next 2-3 days: IMD

7:28 pm August 13, 2020

New Delhi: Large parts of the country are likely to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall during the next two-three days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday. The IMD said a low pressure area has formed over northwest Bay of Bengal off north Odisha and West Bengal coasts. There is also a monsoon trough plus a convergence of southwesterly winds with […]

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

UPCA president Yadupati Singhania dead

4:39 pm August 13, 2020

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association (UPCA) president Yadupati Singhania died in Singapore on Thursday. He was 67 and is survived by his wife, Kavita. Singhania was battling a prolonged illness for which he was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Singapore. “Yadupati Singhania had been ill for a long time and was undergoing treatment at […]