Day: March 24, 2021

Over 1,254 cases in Delhi; 6 deaths

11:13 pm March 24, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi reported 1,254 coronavirus cases on Wednesday, highest in over three months, while six more people succumbed to the disease, the health department said. This is the highest number of cases since December 18 when 1,418 people tested positive for the virus, according to official data. The city had recorded 1,101 cases on […]

Maha: Fire at godown in Thane district; no casualties

10:48 pm March 24, 2021

Thane: A fire broke out at a complex in Kalyan taluka of Maharashtra’s Thane district in the early hours of Wednesday, and no casualties were reported in the incident, a civic official said. The blaze erupted at a godown in the complex in Amne village on Padgaon road at round 4.30 am, said Santosh Kadam, […]

Man gets 10 years RI for raping girl in 2016

10:45 pm March 24, 2021

Ghaziabad: A court here has sentenced a man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a 17-year-old girl over five years ago. The special judge of Prevention of Children against Sexual Offences (POCSO) court-2, Ravinder Prasad Gupta, convicted Akshay for raping the girl on January 23 in an area under the Loni border police […]

1,712 new coronavirus cases in MP, seven deaths

10:44 pm March 24, 2021

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday reported 1,712 new COVID-19 cases, taking its case tally to 2,80,289. Seven fatalities increased the death toll to 3,919, a health official said. As many as 950 people were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, taking the count of recoveries in Madhya Pradesh to 2,66,323, he added. Only […]

COVID-19: 2,298 new cases in Karnataka, 12 deaths

8:55 pm March 24, 2021

Bengaluru: For the second consecutive day on Wednesday, Karnataka logged over 2,000 fresh cases, reporting 2,298 new infections and 12 related fatalities. With the addition of the new cases, the caseload mounted to 9,75,955 and the toll to 12,461, a health department bulletin said. The state reported 2,010 cases on Tuesday. A total of over […]