New Delhi: The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has strongly refuted report published on Wednesday in the online news portal ‘Scroll.in’ with the heading “India let 65 lakh tonnes of grain go to waste in four months, even as the poor went hungry”. Terming the news report as “blatantly unfair” and damaging the organisation’s reputation, […]
Read MoreShillong: Shops and business establishments opened in Meghalaya on Wednesday after more than two months as the lockdown relaxations came into effect. Taxis and buses also started plying with 50 per cent capacity and private vehicles based on the odd-even formula. “All kinds of business houses and shops, except for barber shops and beauty parlours, […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: A five-member committee has been constituted by the Delhi government to strengthen the healthcare infrastructure and look into overall preparedness of hospitals to battle COVID-19, officials said. The order to set up the panel was issued on Tuesday, the day Delhi recorded its highest single-day spike of 1,298 coronavirus cases. The members of […]
Read MoreNew Tehri: With coronavirus cases rapidly increasing in Tehri district, five new containment zones were declared on Tuesday. With this, the number of containment zones in the district has risen to eight, District Magistrate Mangesh Ghildiyal said. The containment zones are in Bhilangana and Jakhnidhar blocks, he said. All activities will remain suspended in the […]
Read MoreMumbai: An Assistant sub-Inspector (ASI) of Police died due to COVID-19 on Tuesday, taking the total number of the police personnel having succumbed to the viral infection in Mumbai to 19 and in Maharashtra to 29, an official said. The ASI breathed his last at Sion hospital here where he was admitted on Thursday. “The […]
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