Being misquoted to create haze around comprehensive looking MSME revival package: Gadkari

May 15, 2020, at 09:24 pm

New Delhi/UNI: Union Minister for MSME and Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Friday said he was surprised to see that how he was being misquoted to create a haze around the comprehensive and forward looking MSME revival package announced by the Government on Thursday.

Mah HC asks Govt to provide details of special trains for migrants

May 15, 2020, at 08:37 pm

Nagpur/UNI: The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court on Friday directed the Union and Maharashtra government to give details of special trains running across the country ferrying migrants and others stranded amid lockdown and how long the services would be functional.

Coronavirus cases in Karnataka swell to 1056

May 15, 2020, at 07:57 pm

Bengaluru/UNI: With detection of 24 more fresh cases of the COVID-19 virus infection, including 13 from Mandya district, the total number of persons contracted for the disease, in Karnataka surged to 1056 on Friday.

American scholar criticises Zalmay Khalilzad's advice to India on Taliban

May 15, 2020, at 07:38 pm

New York: United States' special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad's advice to India that it should talk to Taliban forces about its concerns on terrorism has earned criticisms from American scholar Michael Rubin.

After fresh wave of Covid-19 cases, Goa CM urges holidaymakers to avoid visit

May 15, 2020, at 07:30 pm

Panaji/IBNS: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has expressed concern over people coming to the state, many of them believed to be for holidaying, following new coronavirus cases coming to light in the state after a period of one month.

J&K: No congregation on martyrs day of Hazrat Ali

May 15, 2020, at 06:34 pm

Srinagar/UNI: No congregation or night-long majlis were organised on the martyrdom anniversary of Hazrat Ali, son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad in the Kashmir valley due Covid-infused lockdown.

Kashmiri Muslims perform last rites of Sikh in Ganderbal

May 15, 2020, at 06:30 pm

Srinagar/UNI: In a heartwarming example of humanity, Muslims in a village of Ganderbal district performed the last rites of a Punjabi Sikh amid nationwide lockdown.

Fight against COVID-19: Indian Railways ramps up it's mission "Back Home" through Shramik Specials

May 15, 2020, at 05:04 pm

New Delhi/UNI: More than 210,000 passengers were transported by India Railways to their home states in 145 "Shramik Special" trains operationalised from various states on Thursday, an official release here said.

Part of Sena Bhawan in Delhi sealed after soldier tests Covid-19 positive

May 15, 2020, at 05:03 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: A part of Sena Bhawan, the headquarters of Indian Army, in the national capital was sealed on Friday after a soldier tested positive for Covid-19, said reports.

Assam government asks centre to extend lockdown by two more weeks

May 15, 2020, at 04:41 pm

Guwahati/IBNS: Assam government has urged the Centre to extend the ongoing nationwide lockdown by two more weeks.

SC dismisses petition asking the Centre for food, water and shelter to migrants walking on highways

May 15, 2020, at 04:29 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court today dismissed a petition seeking its direction to the Centre for providing food and water to the migrants walking to their homes saying "it is impossible for this court to monitor who is walking and not walking."

UP: Three migrants crushed to death in Barabanki

May 15, 2020, at 02:46 pm

Barabanki/UNI:  Three migrant workers were killed and four injured here after a vehicle hit them from behind early Friday.

Arvind Kejriwal govt sends its proposal to Centre over lockdown 4.0

May 15, 2020, at 02:44 pm

New Delhi/UNI:  The Delhi government has sent a proposal to the Centre in view of the relaxations in lockdown post May 17, which are based on the suggestions and inputs from the public.

Maharashtra: Constable critically injured after mob attacks police party in Thane

May 15, 2020, at 02:42 pm

Thane/UNI:  A constable was seriously injured when a mob assaulted a police party while they were trying to resolve a quarrel between two groups in Mumbra suburb of this district, police informed on Friday.

Maharashtra: Cancer patient, her father test positive for COVID-19

May 15, 2020, at 02:28 pm

Kolhapur/UNI: An 11-year-old cancer patient and her father tested positive for COVID-19 during a medical trip to Mumbai, sources from Chhatrapati Pramila Raje (CPR) Hospital informed on Friday.

Nursing students from Goa stranded in Karnataka, Kerala brought back

May 15, 2020, at 01:50 pm

Panaji/UNI: As many as 60 nursing students from Goa who were stranded in Karnataka and 25 people stranded in Kerala due to national wide lockdown in the wake of COVID-19, were brought to Goa by five different buses on Thursday.

Covid-19: Another batch of passengers arrive in Jammu; sampled and quarantined

May 15, 2020, at 01:46 pm

Jammu/UNI: Another batch of passengers stranded in different parts of the country due to the nationwide lockdown imposed to contain the novel Coronavirus from spreading arrived here by Rajdhani Express at Jammu Tawi Railway Station on Friday morning.

Sahitya Akademi winning author Debesh Roy passes away

May 15, 2020, at 12:15 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Sahitya Akademi winning veteran Bengali author Debesh Roy passed away here on Thursday.

Sikkim: One soldier missing in avalanche in Lugnak La

May 15, 2020, at 10:18 am

Gangtok/UNI: At least 17 Indian Army Jawans were hit by an avalanche ,while clearing snow in North Sikkim.

Kolkata man joins COVID-19 fight by providing masks, other items to cops and journalists

May 15, 2020, at 09:27 am

Kolkata:  Asthe COVID-19 is causing havoc all overthe country,  55-year-old Sumit Ghosh is one of the citizens who has come forward to extend his help in fighting this pandemic in Kolkata.

Migrants resort to violence near Madhya Pradesh border over food, transportation scarcity

May 14, 2020, at 11:49 pm

Bhopal/IBNS: Thousands of migrants resorted to violence in Sendhwa town along the Madhya Pradesh-Maharashtra border over the scarcity of food and transportation after being stuck in a traffic jam on the National Highway 3.

Piyush Goyal slams Mamata's arrangement of 105 trains for migrants, says WB needs more

May 14, 2020, at 10:34 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: Hours after Mamata Banerjee announced that her government has organised for 105 trains to bring back people to Bengal, stuck in different parts of the country, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said he feels sad that the eastern state doesn't want to accept the migrants waiting to return home.

Nine agriculture workers electrocuted as tractor rams into electric poll in AP

May 14, 2020, at 08:47 pm

Ongole/UNI: In a ghastly road accident, nine agriculture workers, including 7 women, were electrocuted when the tractor-trailer on which they were returning from the fields, rammed into a high tension electric poll at Raparla village in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday.

After losing appeal in UK court, Vijay Mallya faces extradition to India

May 14, 2020, at 08:17 pm

London/IBNS: Fugitive Indian businessman Vijay Mallya on Thursday exhausted all legal options to evade extradition, after he was denied permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court against a High Court order that upheld a 2018 order to extradite him to India to face charges of fraud, media reports said.

BSF seizes 4000 Yaba tablets and 4 kg Ganja along Indo-Bangladesh border

May 14, 2020, at 07:51 pm

Guwahati/IBNS: The troops of Guwahati Frontier of Border Security Force (BSF) seized 4000 numbers of Yaba tablets and 4 kg Ganja in Assam’s South Salmara Mankachar district along the Indo-Bangladesh border on Thursday.

CISF personnel posted in Kolkata based Garden Reach Shipbuilders succumbs to COVID-19

May 14, 2020, at 06:53 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: An Assistant Sub-Inspector of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) posted in its GRSEL unit here has succumbed to COVID-19.

Tripura: Fencing on porous India-Bangladesh border resumes after MHA orders

May 14, 2020, at 04:59 pm

Sonamura (West Tripura)/UNI: After Covid-19 spread like wildfire among BSF personnel in Tripura, barbed wire fencing along the 8.8 kilometre critical stretch of Indo-Bangladesh border in the state resumed today with the direction of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on an emergency basis.

Vande Bharat Mission : 2 AI flights from Manila, US with stranded passengers lands at RGIA

May 14, 2020, at 03:49 pm

Hyderabad/UNI: As part of the biggest ever off-shore evacuation drive of Indian citizens under the Government of India’s Vande Bharat Mission, amid the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, two Air India Evacuation flights landed at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in Shamshabad near here on Thursday.

Delhi govt have been suggested to reopen markets with odd-even rule: Arvind Kejriwal

May 14, 2020, at 01:59 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said his government was suggested by people to reopen the markets, which are closed since the commencement of lockdown on Mar 24 midnight, but with the odd-even rule.

Encounter ensues between security forces and militants in south Kashmir

May 14, 2020, at 11:34 am

Srinagar/UNI: An encounter ensued between security forces and militants during a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) in south Kashmir district of Kulgam on Thursday, a police spokesman said.