Mumbai: Fisherman kills colleague over Rs 150, held
Mumbai: A 22-year-old fisherman has been arrested for allegedly killing a colleague over a Rs 150 dispute in Sewri in the metropolis, police said on Sunday. Hussain Shaikh (22) killed Riyaz Shaikh (28) on Saturday after the latter refused to give him his share of Rs 150 from the fish business, an official said. “The […]
25 migrant workers killed, 40 injured in trailer-truck collision in UP’s Auraiya
Auraiya (UP): At least 25 migrant workers were killed and 40 others were injured when a trailer and a stationary truck on which they had hitched rides collided on a highway near here in the early hours of Saturday, the latest in a string of accidents involving migrants returning to their states amid the coronavirus […]
Centre launches online dashboard for monitoring movement of migrant workers
New Delhi: The Centre has launched an online dashboard to monitor and facilitate the smooth movement of migrant workers and their contact-tracing during lockdown across the country. In a communication to all states and union territories, Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla said the central government has already allowed the movement of migrant workers by buses and […]
Fresh wave of migration sees a large number of women, children and elderly on roads
New Delhi/Ghaziabad: Weary and exhausted, Ramavati Devi feeds her one-year-old grandson and keeps an eye on another as she waits for her son and seven-month pregnant daughter-in-law under the shade of a Metro pillar near the Anand Vihar Bus Terminal. A Delhi Police constable drives away Devi, and many others who have gathered to cross […]
Stop acting like money lender, give cash rather than credit: Rahul Gandhi to govt
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the Centre should stop acting like a ‘sahukar’ (money lender) for its children, and demanded that cash assistance be given to the poor and vulnerable sections, who are in dire need of money now, than credit. Interacting with journalists of regional media via video conferencing, Gandhi […]
30 municipal areas contribute 80 pc of COVID cases, officials told to focus on timely tracing
New Delhi: With coronavirus cases continuing to rise, top health ministry officials on Saturday held a meeting with senior officers and district magistrates from 30 municipal areas which are contributing almost 80 per cent of the country’s COVID-19 cases during which monitoring of old city areas, urban slums, migrant labourer camps and other high density […]
Vice Prez, PM condole death of 24 migrant workers in UP road accident
New Delhi: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday condoled the death of migrant workers in a road accident in Uttar Pradesh, saying the government is carrying out relief work in full swing. At least 24 migrant labourers lost their lives and 36 people sustained injuries when two trucks collided […]
COVID-19: AIIMS Bhopal claims good results in drug trial
Bhopal: Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bhopal has been conducting drug trials for the treatment of COVID-19, which have yielded some good results, a senior official claimed on Saturday. The trials of the drug Mycobacterium W (Mw) were conducted on COVID-19 patients at AIIMS Bhopal for the last few days, the official said. “So […]
30 municipal areas account for 79 pc of India’s COVID caseload; cases near 82,000-mark
New Delhi: Thirty municipal areas account for 79 per cent of India’s coronavirus infection caseload, the Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19 was informed on Friday, as the death toll in the country due to the disease rose to 2,649 and the total tally of cases climbed to 81,970. An increase of 100 deaths and […]
1,640 foreign Tablighi Jamaat members were in India, only 66 contracted COVID-19: Jamiat
New Delhi: As many as 1,640 foreign Tablighi Jamaat members from 47 countries were in India at the time of Nizamuddin Markaz gathering, of whom only 64 tested positive for COVID-19 and two more died of the virus, prominent Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind said on Friday. Jamiat president Maulana Arshad Madani said the “highlighting” of […]
