Day: February 29, 2020

44-yr-old Coronavirus: NDA suspends large gatherings, expeditionsgaon resident tests positive of coronavirus

Coronavirus: 105 discharged from Maharashtra hospitals so far

9:03 pm February 29, 2020

Mumbai: As many as 105 persons, quarantined for possible exposure to the novel coronavirus, have been discharged from hospitals in Maharashtra while four persons are under observation, the state government said on Saturday. Two persons are quarantined at a hospital in Mumbai while one person each is admitted to isolation wards of hospitals in Pune […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

J-K: Militant, three persons arrested in Srinagar

8:53 pm February 29, 2020

Srinagar: A militant was arrested along with three other persons from a hospital here on Saturday, police said. Wakeel Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Bijbehara area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, was arrested from the Bone and Joint Hospital in the city, police sources said. They said Bhat had ostensibly come to the hospital for […]

President arrives in Odisha on a 3-day visit

President prays for nation s happiness and prosperity at Baidyanath temple

8:43 pm February 29, 2020

Deoghar (Jharkhand): President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday offered puja at the Baidyanath temple in Deoghar and prayed for the happiness and prosperity of the nation, an official release said here. He was accompanied by Jharkhand Governor Droupadi Murmu inside the sanctum sanctorum, it said. Temple priests performed shodsopachar, a puja ritual, to the Jyotirling […]

Two women injured in acid attack in Haryana’s Ambala

8:10 pm February 29, 2020

Ambala: Two women sustained severe burn injuries when an unidentified youth threw acid on them in this district of Haryana on Saturday, police said. The victims were identified as Sonia (28) and her relative Binder (23), police said, adding the women were rushed to MM Medical College at Mulana. The incident took place in Alawpur […]

Man gets life sentence for murder of traffic cop in 2016

8:07 pm February 29, 2020

Mumbai: A 23-year-old man, convicted for attacking a traffic police constable with a wooden plank in suburban Bandra and causing his death in 2016, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a court here on Saturday. His brother, who was also allegedly involved in the assault but was a minor at the time, is being tried […]