Day: December 28, 2020

Maha: Man held for raping woman he met on online dating app

9:09 pm December 28, 2020

Pune : A man was arrested for allegedlyraping and assaulting a woman he met on a popular online dating app, police in Pune said on Monday As per the victim’s complaint, the two met at a restaurant on December 27 where he forced her to consume alcohol, then took her to his house and thrashed […]

Not terming Indian people outsiders; attempts on to destroy Bengal’s self-pride: Mamata

9:04 pm December 28, 2020

Kolkata: Facing attacks from the BJP on how she can call people visiting West Bengal from other states ”outsiders”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that she does not attach that tag to ”our countrymen” but is against alleged attempts to impose an alien thought process on the people of India. Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress supremo, claimed that […]

Farmers will soon be compensated for crop loss due to

9:01 pm December 28, 2020

Chennai: Tamil Nadu farmers who suffered financial losses due to extensive damage of their crops by cyclones Nivar and Burevi will be compensated soon, and the relief sum will be deposited into their bank accounts, Chief Minister K Palaniswami said on Monday. Particulars of the farmers including their bank accounts has been obtained and the work to […]

Parks in Mathura being redeveloped to attract tourists

8:59 pm December 28, 2020

Mathura: The Uttar Pradesh government is redeveloping public gardens like Jawahar Bagh here to attract tourists, a Cabinet minister said Monday. “Finishing touch is being given to Jawahar Bagh and it is being developed as a novel panoramic picnic spot,” Power minister Srikant Sharma told reporters. He said international tourists will be surprised to see the novel picnic spot that is […]

Already produced 40-50 million dosages of Covishield vaccine: Serum Institute

8:54 pm December 28, 2020

New Delhi: Serum Institute of India has already produced around 50 million dosages of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine ‘Covishield’ and plans to scale it up to 100 million by March next year even as it awaits approval for emergency use authorisation, a top company official said on Monday. The company, which has launched the country’s […]