Uttarakhand

Four more corona patients die in Uttarakhand

11:53 pm June 13, 2020

Dehradun: Four more COVID-19 patients have died in Uttarakhand since Thursday raising the fatalities in such cases to 23 while 61 more people tested positive for the infection on Saturday as the state’s pandemic tally rose to 1,785. The latest victims include a 58-year-old woman who died at SMI Hospital, Dehradun on Thursday, a 76-year-old […]

Nepal Parliament's lower house unanimously passes bill to redraw political map

Nepal Parliament’s lower house passes bill to redraw political map

10:57 pm June 13, 2020

Kathmandu: Nepal’s Parliament on Saturday unanimously voted to amend the Constitution to update the country’s new political map, laying claim over the strategically key areas of Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura along the border with India. India has been maintaining that these three areas belong to it. Major Opposition parties including Nepali Congress (NC), Rastriya Janata […]

Migrant labourer commits suicide after returning home in UP

6:52 pm June 12, 2020

Ballia (UP): A 30-year-old migrant labourer, who had returned home here last month from Uttarakhand, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree, police said on Friday. Family members of Anjani Kumar Singh claimed that he was facing financial problems and this drove him to end his life. Singh was a labourer at a […]

Military commanders of India, China to hold talks on Saturday

India, China maintaining engagements to resolve eastern Ladakh row at earliest: MEA

11:25 pm June 11, 2020

New Delhi: India on Thursday said it is maintaining military and diplomatic engagements with China to peacefully resolve the eastern Ladakh row at the “earliest” even as troops from the two armies stuck to their aggressive posturing in several friction points in the Himalayan region. At a weekly media briefing, Spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs Anurag Srivastava said both sides agreed to work for […]

8171 more COVID-19 cases, 204 deaths in India

3:53 pm June 2, 2020

New Delhi: The novel coronavirus death toll rose to 5,598 in India on Tuesday with 204 more fatalities, while 8,171 new cases took the number of infections to 1,98,706, the Health Ministry said. The active cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) climbed to 97,581 and as many as 95,526 people have recovered and one patient […]