COVID-19

Max 100 people allowed at new year events: Noida CP

10:44 pm December 27, 2020

Noida (UP): Gautam Buddh Nagar Police Commissioner Alok Singh on Sunday said no more than 100 people would be allowed at any event to celebrate the new year due to the coronavirus pandemic and even for that, prior permission would be needed. He said a violation of the protocols put in place to curb the […]

COVID-19: Nashik sees 207 cases, 5 deaths; 246 recover

9:17 pm December 27, 2020

Nashik: The COVID-19 tally in Nashik rose by 207 on Sunday to reach 1,09,119, while the death toll increased by five to touch 1,950, an official said. So far, 1,04,817 people have been discharged post recovery, including 246 on Sunday, he added. With 678 tests conducted in the last 24 hours, the total number of […]

Dance historian Sunil Kothari pases away, had tested positive for COVID-19 a month ago

3:14 pm December 27, 2020

New Delhi: Padma Shri dance historian and critic Sunil Kothari passed away Sunday morning at a Delhi hospital after he suffered a cardiac arrest a month after testing positive for coronavirus. He was 87. ”He had tested positive for COVID-19 almost a month back and was not in a good condition,” Vidha Lal, a family friend and herself […]

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

COVID-19: Ghaziabad admin sets up dedicated wing for UK, Europe returnees

11:14 pm December 24, 2020

Ghaziabad: The Ghaziabad administration has established a dedicated wing inside the integrated COVID-19 control room to treat people who have returned from the UK and Europe after a new COVID-19 strain was found in Britain, officials said on Thursday. Private COVID-19 hospitals have also been instructed to set up a separate wing and reserve beds […]

Four held for running hookah bars in Delhi in violation of COVID-19 norms

10:43 pm December 24, 2020

New Delhi: The Delhi Police busted four hookah bars operating in the national capital’s Punjabi Bagh area in violation of COVID-19 norms and arrested as many people, officials said on Thursday. Four places were identified after the police received information that hookah bars were being run illegally in Punjabi Bagh. Four teams were constituted to […]