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Woman killed, mother injured in explosion in J&K

11:55 pm May 27, 2021

Srinagar: A 19-year-old woman was killed and her mother injured in an explosion in Jammu and Kashmir‘s Kupwara district on Thursday, police said. A police official said Sara Begum (49) and her daughter Gulnaz Bano, residents of Sharkoot Vilgam area of Handwara, went to a forest for collecting vegetables on Wednesday and apparently brought a […]

Punjab records 178 more COVID-19 deaths

11:52 pm May 27, 2021

Chandigarh: Punjab on Thursday reported 178 more fatalities due to COVID-19, taking the toll to 14,004, while 3,914 fresh infections took the total number of cases to 5,56,089, according to a medical bulletin. The number of active cases dropped from 50,549 on Wednesday to 48,231, as per the bulletin. The state’s daily recoveries of 5,995 […]

Central team in Gujarat for cyclone damage assessment

11:49 pm May 27, 2021

Ahmedabad: An inter-ministerial team of the Centre arrived in Amreli district of Gujarat on Thursday to assess the damage caused by cyclone Tauktae, which hit the state over a week back and caused large-scale destruction, the state government said. The seven-member team is led by Shri Prakash, joint secretary in the Union Home Ministry, said […]

COVID-19 claims 188 more lives in UP, infects 3,278 more

11:45 pm May 27, 2021

Lucknow: COVID-19 on Thursday claimed 188 more lives and 3,278 people in Uttar Pradesh, raising the death toll due to it to 19,900 and the total number of cases to 16,83,866, officials said. “In the last 24 hours, 3,278 fresh cases were reported, while 6,995 COVID-19 patients recovered from the disease, taking the total number […]

Cumulative 11 COVID deaths in Noida, Ghaziabad

11:41 pm May 27, 2021

Noida/Ghaziabad: Six more people succumbed to COVID-19 in Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddh Nagar, pushing its death toll to 434, while another five fatalities raised neighbouring Ghaziabad’s count to 429 on Thursday, official data showed. Together the two western UP districts adjoining Delhi have a death toll of 863, according to data released by the state’s […]