Day: April 7, 2021

India's Tests against England, Australia were not fixed: ICC

T20 World Cup in India on track despite pandemic woes, says ICC

5:07 pm April 7, 2021

Dubai: The International Cricket Council does not yet see the need to activate its backup plan for the Twenty20 World Cup and is sticking to hosting the event in India later this year despite the country experiencing a record COVID-19 surge recently. India reported a record 115,736 new cases on Wednesday, a 13-fold increase in […]

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

Indian judo team withdraws from Olympic qualifiers after two players test COVID positive

5:00 pm April 7, 2021

New Delhi: A 12-member Indian judo team was forced to withdraw from the ongoing Asia-Oceania Olympic qualifiers in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan after two judokas — Ajay Yadav and Ritu — tested positive for COVID-19 just before the start of the tournament. Yadav, a 73kg class judoka, and Ritu (52kg) tested positive in the second test conducted […]

CRPF harassing voters in Bengal at Shah’s behest: Mamata

4:05 pm April 7, 2021

Baneswar: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that the CRPF personnel are harassing voters in the state at the behest of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Addressing a rally here in Cooch Behar district, she accused personnel of the central force of molesting women and beating people during […]

Encounter on between security forces, terrorists in Poonch

Maha govt urges Centre for supply of oxygen from nearby states

3:42 pm April 7, 2021

Mumbai: Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Wednesday said the state has requested the Centre for the supply of oxygen for medical use from nearby states. “12 metric tonnes of oxygen is produced and over 7 tonnes of oxygen is consumed daily. We’ve urged that we should be supplied medical oxygen from the nearby states. […]

COVID: India grieves 200,000 dead with many more probably uncounted

Maharashtra: 8 bodies of COVID-19 victims cremated on one pyre

3:28 pm April 7, 2021

Aurangabad: Eight bodies of COVID-19 victims were cremated on one pyre due to shortage of space at a makeshift crematorium in Maharashtra’s Beed district, a civic official said on Wednesday. Since residents had opposed the cremation of bodies of COVID-19 patients at crematoriums in Ambajogai town, local authorities had to identify another place away from […]

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