Day: October 20, 2020

Chinese drugmaker setting up vaccine production lines

11:41 pm October 20, 2020

Beijing: A state-owned Chinese drugmaker is setting up production lines to supply 1 billion doses of two possible coronavirus vaccines that are being tested on 50,000 people in 10 countries, the company chairman said Tuesday. Testing by SinoPharm Group is “in the last kilometer of a long march,” chairman Liu Jingzhen said at a news […]

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

UP: Jeep explodes running over firecrackers, six people injured

11:35 pm October 20, 2020

Hamirpur: Six people were injured on Tuesday and four vehicles damaged when a jeep exploded after running over a bag of firecrackers here, police said. “The incident took place in the afternoon when there was an explosion under the running jeep injuring six persons,” Superintendent of Police Narendra Kumar Singh said. The injured persons were […]

UIDAI suspends ADG Pankaj Goyal on graft charges

11:20 pm October 20, 2020

New Delhi: Aadhaar-issuing body UIDAI on Tuesday suspended Pankaj Goyal, an assistant director general posted at its regional office in Delhi, with immediate effect, pending inquiry into charges of corruption. “… a case against…Pankaj Goyal…Assistant Director General posted at Regional Office, Delhi of the Unique Identification Authority of India in respect of a criminal offence […]

Suspense on deputy CM, other ministers in Bihar

Lockdown has ended, but virus still there; All must be cautious during festivities: PM

9:07 pm October 20, 2020

New Delhi: With the onset of festival season, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday made an impassioned appeal to people to follow COVID-19 guidelines, saying this is not the time to be careless as the virus is still around and even a small negligence can dampen the festive spirit. In his seventh address to the […]

Railway employees protest delay in payment of bonus

9:02 pm October 20, 2020

New Delhi: Thousands of railway employees staged protests across the country on Tuesday against the “inordinate delay” in payment of productivity-linked bonus, defying warning of stringent action by the Railway Board, according to the All India Railwaymen’s Federation (AIRF). The AIRF has said if the bonus is not released immediately, they will be compelled to […]