Mumbai: Stepping in to help stranded migrants reach their villages, Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan on Wednesday arranged for four special flights to send about 700 people to their homes in Uttar Pradesh. Sources close to Bachchan said he wanted to book a train for the migrants but the logistics did not work out. The flights […]
Read MoreNashik: Two people tested positive on Monday in Nashik in Maharashtra for the novel coronavirus taking the district’s COVID-19 count to 35, health officials said. While one patient hails from Malegaon, the other is from Sinnar taluka here, an official said. “The man from Malegaon is a relative of a COVID-19 patient. The person from […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: More than 25,500 Tablighi Jamaat members and their contacts have been quarantined in the country till now after the Union and state governments conducted a “mega operation” to identify them, a senior Union Home Ministry official said on Monday. During the daily briefing, Joint Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava told reporters that five villages […]
Read MoreRaipur: Three people were killed when Naxals blew up an oil tanker with an improvised explosive device (IED) in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district on Tuesday, police said. The incident took place around 11 am between Kosronda and Tumapal villages when the diesel-laden tanker was engaged in rail track laying work in Rowghat area, Inspector General of […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: A BJP member in Lok Sabha Tuesday demanded framing of a national policy on outsourcing to prevent exploitation of youth. Participating in the discussion on the Union Budget, Vinod Shankar (BJP) said today youth are being exploited by industries. “Now is the time that we should frame a national policy on outsourcing to […]
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