Day: April 2, 2021

Good Friday and virus lockdown empty Manila’s streets

3:15 pm April 2, 2021

Manila: Filipinos marked Good Friday, one of the most solemn holidays in Asia’s largest Roman Catholic nation, with deserted streets and churches following a strict lockdown to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. Major highways and roads were eerily quiet after religious gatherings were prohibited in metropolitan Manila and four outlying provinces. The government placed the […]

Body of 18-year-old woman missing since Holi found in UP’s Bahraich

3:08 pm April 2, 2021

Bahraich: The body of an 18-year-old woman, who was missing since Holi, was found in a village in Hujurpur area of the district, police said on Friday. The woman had gone missing on March 29, and an FIR was registered two days later based on a complaint filed by her family members, they said. The […]

India records highest single-day vaccine coverage

3:04 pm April 2, 2021

New Delhi: More than 36.7 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses were administered in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day coverage till now, the Union Health ministry said on Friday. Of the 36,71,242 vaccine doses, 33,65,597 beneficiaries were vaccinated across 51,215 sessions for the first dose and 3,05,645 beneficiaries received the second dose of vaccine, the Health […]

Italy may be in Easter lockdown, but the party’s on at sea

2:59 pm April 2, 2021

Rome: Italy may be in a strict coronavirus lockdown this Easter with travel restricted between regions and new quarantines imposed. But a few miles offshore, guests aboard the MSC Grandiosa cruise ship are shimmying to Latin music on deck and sipping cocktails by the pool. In one of the anomalies of lockdowns that have shuttered […]

Bengal polls: BJP candidate thrashed in Diamond Harbour, 2 arrested

2:46 pm April 2, 2021

Baruipur: A BJP candidate and his supporters were allegedly thrashed in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas during their election campaign on Friday morning, police said. BJP’s Diamond Harbour candidate Dipak Halder was campaigning in the Haridebpur area around 9.30 am when his supporters got engaged in a war of words with a few people, they said. Amid the verbal duel, Halder […]