COVID-19 pandemic

Delhi man stabs himself with knife after argument with family

9:28 pm December 10, 2020

New Delhi: A 32-year-old man allegedly committed suicide by stabbing himself with a knife in his chest following an argument with his family, police said on Thursday. Udai Mehta, a resident of Sunder Vihar in Delhi, was an engineer by profession and was working from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic, they said. The incident took […]

Tigress captured from defunct rubber factory in UP

Punjab’s Chhatbir zoo to reopen from Thursday

11:25 pm December 9, 2020

Chandigarh: The famous Chhatbir zoo in Punjab will reopen for the public from Thursday after being closed for nearly eight months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said. The zoo will remain open six days a week and a maximum of 2,700 visitors will be allowed on a single day, according to a government release. […]

What COVID-19? Life is all normal in Lakshadweep

3:11 pm December 9, 2020

Kochi: The world may be in the grip of COVID-19 pandemic, disrupting daily schedules and robbing many of their weekend getaways, but life seems to be normal in the small Lakshadweep islands, which is yet to record the first positive case of coronavirus. No masks, no sanitisers, and many rules of COVID-19 are not in place and […]

Stop foundation-laying ceremony for new Parl building, divert funds for people’s needs: CPI MP to PM

8:14 pm December 8, 2020

New Delhi: CPI MP Binoy Viswam Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop the December 10 foundation stone-laying ceremony for a new Parliament building and suspend the overall Central Vista project, and divert the fund to ”more important and pressing issues that the country faces”. In a letter to the prime minster, Viswam said that carrying out such […]

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

Bharat Bandh: Normal life unaffected in Meghalaya

3:10 pm December 8, 2020

Shillong: Normal life remained unaffected in Meghalaya on Tuesday amid the ‘Bharat Bandh’ called by the farmers’ unions against the Centre’s farms laws. Shops and markets were open in the state and both private and public vehicles plied in the streets as usual. Governments offices, banks and post offices were open and attendance was normal, […]