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CRPF harassing voters in Bengal at Shah’s behest: Mamata

4:05 pm April 7, 2021

Baneswar: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that the CRPF personnel are harassing voters in the state at the behest of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Addressing a rally here in Cooch Behar district, she accused personnel of the central force of molesting women and beating people during […]

Encounter on between security forces, terrorists in Poonch

Maha govt urges Centre for supply of oxygen from nearby states

3:42 pm April 7, 2021

Mumbai: Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Wednesday said the state has requested the Centre for the supply of oxygen for medical use from nearby states. “12 metric tonnes of oxygen is produced and over 7 tonnes of oxygen is consumed daily. We’ve urged that we should be supplied medical oxygen from the nearby states. […]

COVID: India grieves 200,000 dead with many more probably uncounted

Maharashtra: 8 bodies of COVID-19 victims cremated on one pyre

3:28 pm April 7, 2021

Aurangabad: Eight bodies of COVID-19 victims were cremated on one pyre due to shortage of space at a makeshift crematorium in Maharashtra’s Beed district, a civic official said on Wednesday. Since residents had opposed the cremation of bodies of COVID-19 patients at crematoriums in Ambajogai town, local authorities had to identify another place away from […]

UP BJP leader resigns over farm laws

3:22 pm April 7, 2021

Muzaffarnagar: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Priyamvada Tomar resigned from the party on Wednesday in support of the farmers agitation. She also resigned as member of the Uttar Pradesh Women Commission ahead of the panchayat polls in the state. In her resignation letter to state BJP president Swatantra Dev Singh, she alleged that the BJP-led […]

MP: Sunday 'corona' curfew to be lifted as pandemic under control now, says CM

COVID-19 surge: Not wearing mask amounts to crime, says MP CM

3:44 pm April 6, 2021

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday said not wearing a face mask amounts to crime and appealed to people to follow appropriate ”social behaviour” to check the spread of COVID-19. The surge in cases now is due to people lowering their guard, Chouhan said after starting a 24-hour ‘sit-in’ here to […]