Day: July 20, 2021

COVID-19 vaccination: Maha crosses 4-crore doses mark

11:47 pm July 20, 2021

Mumbai: The number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in Maharashtra crossed the 4-crore mark on Tuesday, including one crore doses being given to beneficiaries in less than a month’s time due to increase in stock, officials said. Maharashtra hit the 3-crore mark on June 26, while the number of doses administered had crossed the 2-crore […]

Four deaths, 68 fresh virus cases in Punjab

11:35 pm July 20, 2021

Chandigarh: Four more people died from coronavirus in Punjab on Tuesday as 68 fresh cases surfaced, taking the state’s infection tally to 5,98,455. Till now, 16,244 people have died from the infection in the state, according to a medical bulletin. Two deaths were reported from Ferozepur and one each from Fatehgarh Sahib and Muktsar. The […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Fauci, Paul clash on virus origins, trade charges of lying

11:33 pm July 20, 2021

Washington: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, angrily confronted Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday in testimony on Capitol Hill, rejecting Paul’s insinuation that the US helped fund research at a Chinese lab that could have sparked the COVID-19 outbreak. Paul suggested that Fauci had lied before Congress when in May he denied that the National Institutes of Health funded so-called “gain of function” […]

AAP: Power Minister Satyendar Jain accepts Goa counterpart's 'challenge' for debating Delhi's electricity model

AAP minister accepts Goa counterpart’s ‘challenge’ for debating Delhi’s electricity model

11:29 pm July 20, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi’s Power Minister Satyendar Jain has accepted his Goa counterpart Nilesh Cabral’s ”challenge” for a debate on the AAP government’s model of electricity supply in the national capital. This comes as the Aam Aadmi Party tries to make inroads into Goa politics. AAP National Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had announced […]

Woman, 50, found dead with no clothes in forest

11:28 pm July 20, 2021

Banda (UP): The body of a 50-year-old woman was found naked with hilt mark injuries in a village here, police said on Tuesday. The family members of the woman have alleged rape before murder. The victim had taken some goats for grazing in a forest on Monday, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mahendra Pratap Singh […]