INDIA

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Four children killed, 6 injured in Bihar road accident

11:54 pm July 1, 2021

Muzaffarpur (Bihar): Four children were crushed to death and six others injured after a speeding truck ploughed into them on Muzaffarpur-Rewa National Highway in Bihar on Thursday, police said. The children were hit from behind when they were playing outside their house near Sariya village in Muzaffarpur district at 8.30 am. The police identified the […]

Bengal logs 1,501 fresh COVID-19 cases, 27 fatalities

11:50 pm July 1, 2021

Kolkata: West Bengal reported 1,501 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, raising the tally to 15,01,284, while the death toll climbed to 17,735 with 27 more fatalities, a health department bulletin said. The state now has 20,170 active cases and 14,63,379 patients have recovered from the disease so far, including 1,889 since Wednesday, it said. […]

Fake vaccination camps: another case comes to light

11:45 pm July 1, 2021

Mumbai: The Mumbai police on Thursday registered a new First Information Report against eight persons for holding fake COVID-19 vaccination camps for a private firm, an official said. This is the 10th FIR registered in Mumbai after a racket which held bogus or unauthorized vaccination camps for housing societies and private firms came to light […]

Fire at DCPCR helpline office in Noida

11:42 pm July 1, 2021

New Delhi: A fire broke out at the office of a helpline of the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) in Noida on Thursday, disrupting its functioning, an official said. According to the official, it was a minor fire which broke out at the office of the vendor to which the helpline services […]

Four killed in LPG cylinder blast in Delhi’s Shahdara

11:59 pm June 30, 2021

New Delhi: A 45-year-old woman, two of her sons and a daughter died of suffocation on Wednesday when a fire broke out at their Shahdara residence following an LPG cylinder explosion, Delhi Fire Service (DFS) officials said. According to the DFS, a call about a cylinder blast in Shahdara’s Farsh Bazaar area was received around […]