Day: September 19, 2020

Oppn plans march to Vijay Chowk in solidarity with suspended RS MPs

Parliament’s monsoon session likely to be curtailed, may end by mid-next week

8:14 pm September 19, 2020

New Delhi: The ongoing monsoon session of Parliament is likely to be curtailed and may end by the middle of next week in view of the threat of the COVID-19 spread among parliamentarians, official sources said on Saturday. At a meeting of the business advisory committee of Lok Sabha, which has floor leaders of all […]

Mumbai case surge: Dharavi to get 2 COVID care centres

Dharavi’s coronavirus infection count crosses 3,000

8:11 pm September 19, 2020

Mumbai: The tally of coronavirus cases in Mumbai’s Dharavi area crossed the 3,000 mark on Saturday with 25 new cases coming to light, said an official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. The tally reached 3,018 on Saturday. It had crossed 2,500 on July 21. 2,585 patients from the area have recovered from the viral infection, […]

Political blame game in WB over arrest of terrorists

8:08 pm September 19, 2020

Kolkata: The arrest of nine terrorists, including six from West Bengal, and busting of an al-Qaeda module on Saturday has triggered a political blame game in the state with opposition BJP and Congress alleging that intelligence failure and appeasement politics of the Mamata Banerjee government have led to such a pass. The ruling Trinamool Congress […]

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

Communist veteran Roza Deshpande dies

8:03 pm September 19, 2020

Mumbai: Veteran communist leader and former Lok Sabha member Roza Deshpande died at her residence here on Saturday afternoon due to old age, sources said. Deshpande, 91, was the daughter of Shripad Amrit Dange, one of the founders of the Communist Party of India. She is survived by a son and a daughter. Deshpande had […]

Russia’s Navalny says he’s now more than ‘technically alive’

8:01 pm September 19, 2020

Moscow: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said he is recovering his verbal and physical abilities at the German hospital where he is being treated for suspected nerve agent poisoning but that he at first felt despair over his condition. Navalny, the most visible opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, fell ill on a domestic flight […]