Day: April 21, 2020

"Depressed" dental student leaps to death in Hyderabad

Boy jumps to death from 11th floor

11:46 pm April 21, 2020

Hyderabad: A 13-year-old boy allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the 11th floor of a residential building here, police said on Tuesday. According to police, the boy, a ninth standard student, jumped from the corridor at around midnight on April 19. Some occupants of the building, after hearing the sound of something falling on the […]

Five cattle smugglers arrested in J-K's Reasi

2 held for animal slaughter in Muzaffarnagar

11:45 pm April 21, 2020

Muzaffarnagar: Two persons were arrested under the UP Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act in Uttar Pradesh‘s Muzaffarnagar district on Tuesday, police said. Read: Student suicide The alleged incident of animal slaughter took place in Titawi area, they said. There are a total five suspects in the case of which two were held in a raid […]

Goa bustles with tourists but pandemic may play party-pooper

Goa may allow entry of only coronavirus negative people

11:42 pm April 21, 2020

Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday said his government was considering to allow the entry of only those people who are coronavirus negative once the borders of the state open again after the end of the lockdown period. Sawant also hinted that the state BJP government might allow only coronavirus negative people with […]

Gujarat: 14 lions captured in Gir, after cubs fall ill

11:27 pm April 21, 2020

Ahmedabad: At least 14 lions were captured from Gujarat’s Gir Wildlife Sanctuary and shifted to Jasadhar care centre in the forest, after some cubs in a pride fell ill, a senior official from the state forest department said on Tuesday. One of the sick lion cubs was infected with babesia, a protozoan parasite, while two […]

Fire at hotel-turned-quarantine facility in Mumbai

11:22 pm April 21, 2020

Mumbai: A fire broke out at a hotel in Mumbai‘s Nagpada area which is being used as a coronavirus quarantine centre on Tuesday evening, but there were no reports of anybody getting injured, an official said. The blaze started in the four-storey Hotel Ripon Palace on Bellasis Road around 6.20 pm, said a Fire Brigade […]