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Hindutva leader Tapan Ghosh dies battling COVID-19

10:31 pm July 12, 2020

Kolkata: Hindutva leader Tapan Ghosh, who had tested positive for COVID-19, died at a hospital on Sunday, his associates said. Ghosh, 67, was the founder of far-right group Hindu Samhati. He was admitted to a private hospital last week after he tested positive for COVID-19. Tapan-da passed away this evening. He is survived by two […]

Odisha prepares for possible rain-triggered flash floods

Assam flood situation worsens, 3.4 lakh affected in 14 districts

9:08 pm July 10, 2020

Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam deteriorated on Friday as vast areas of two more districts were inundated, affecting 1.70 lakh more people, the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said in a report. It said 3,41,837 people of 32 revenue circles of 14 districts are now affected by the deluge. The two new districts where floodwaters entered since […]

Flood waters continue to recede in Assam; one dead

11:17 pm July 8, 2020

Guwahati : The situation in Assam improved on Wednesday as flood waters receded from a district, but the deluge claimed another life, raising the death toll to 40, the State Disaster Management Authority said. Over 1.7 lakh people across 12 districts have been affected by the flood waters, the ASDMA said. On Tuesday, nearly two lakh people were affected […]

Pakistani intruder killed by BSF along International Border in Jammu

5 more BSF staffers test COVID-19 positive in Mizoram

8:17 pm July 6, 2020

Aizawl: Five more Border Security Force (BSF) personnel in Mizoram tested positive for coronavirus infection, taking the state’s COVID-19 tally to 191, a state health department official said on Monday. The five persons – four jawans and a cook are posted at the BSF camp in Vanhne in south Mizoram’s Lunglei district. The four jawans recently returned to the state from Kerala, Madhya […]

India registers highest single-day spike of nearly 23K COVID cases

11:14 pm July 4, 2020

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally neared 6.5 lakh cases on Saturday with a record single-day spike of 22,771 new infections, even as the recovery rate further improved to 60.81 per cent. The government said several people-centric measures taken as part of the “test, trace, treat” strategy have removed the impediments for COVID-19 testing. Facilitation of […]