lockdown

8-year-old girl donates savings to lockdown-hit poor

1:07 am May 15, 2020

Puducherry: An eight-year-old girl here has donated about Rs 25,000 of her savings to the poor who are struggling due to the COVID-19 lockdown. Dhiya, who dreams of becoming an IAS officer, has been saving up money to purchase a laptop, apparently to prepare for civil services exam, officials in the Collectorate here said. On […]

Govt allocates Rs 40,000 cr more for MGNREGS

10 migrants set off on foot from Pune for hometown in UP

1:37 pm May 10, 2020

Pune: Left without jobs and desperate to return home amid the lockdown, 10 migrant labourers have set off on foot from Pune in Maharashtra for their native place hundreds of kilometres away in Uttar Pradesh. The Pune administration has asked the officials concerned to make necessary arrangements for such migrants at hotels and halls available […]

Train accident: Survivors raised alarm, but in vain

Maharashtra: 14 migrant workers crushed to death by goods train in Aurangabad

12:51 pm May 8, 2020

Aurangabad: At least 14 migrant workers sleeping on rail tracks were crushed to death by a goods train in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra on Friday morning, police said. Two other labourers were injured in the accident which took place at 5.15 am under the Karmad Police station jurisdiction, an official said. The workers, who were […]

COVID-19 nationwide tally nears 54,000; death toll rises to 1,783

8:51 pm May 7, 2020

New Delhi: The nationwide tally of COVID-19 cases neared 54,000 on Thursday with more people testing positive for the deadly virus infection in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan among other states, but the number of those having recovered also crossed 15,000. At least 4,500 new cases have been detected across […]

Sultry Thursday in Delhi, light rain likely on Friday

Lockdown, rain improve air quality in Kolkata

11:50 pm May 6, 2020

Kolkata: Very little commercial activity during the ongoing lockdown and rain on Wednesday morning have improved the air quality in the city with the average index remaining in the ‘good’ category, an official said. The average air quality index (AQI) during the day was 16 (PM 2.5) at a monitoring station in Jadavpur, 18 in […]