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Arunachal committee wins India Biodiversity Award

9:58 pm May 22, 2021

Itanagar: The Shergaon Biodiversity Management Committee (BMC) in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh was on Saturday awarded the best such panel in the country at the fifth edition of the India Biodiversity Award, official sources said. The award was given by the National Biodiversity Authority at a virtual programme on the occasion of the […]

Rajasthan: Around Rs 4.5 crore cash seized from car

Man held with Rs 60 lakh at Nagpur railway station

9:54 pm May 22, 2021

Nagpur: A man was held at Nagpur railway station in Maharashtra on Saturday allegedly with Rs 60 lakh unaccounted cash, an official said. Shabbir Husain Hasan Ali Karanjawala (55), a resident of Bengali Panja here, had alighted from the New Delhi- Chennai Grand Trunk Express in the morning and a large bag he was carrying […]

Around 400 new COVID-19 cases in Delhi: Kejriwal

Delhi govt likely to extend lockdown by another week

9:52 pm May 22, 2021

New Delhi: The Delhi government is likely to extend the ongoing lockdown by another week, although the Covid situation is improving in the city with less number of cases and declining positivity rate in the past few days, official sources said on Saturday. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had first imposed a lockdown on April 19 […]

SP leader Azam Khan’s condition stable: Hospital

9:49 pm May 22, 2021

Lucknow: The condition of senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan is stable, the hospital treating him said in a statement here on Saturday. Khan and his son Abdullah were shifted from the Sitapur jail to Medanta Hospital here on May 9 for coronavirus treatment. “On May 22, SP MP Azam Khan (72) was given two […]

MP: Sunday 'corona' curfew to be lifted as pandemic under control now, says CM

MP to ease coronavirus `curfew’ from June: CM

9:47 pm May 22, 2021

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday announced that the coronavirus-induced restrictions in the state would be gradually relaxed from the next month. “Our target is to free our state of COVID-19 by May 31. We will have to unlock the coronavirus-induced-curfew gradually from June 1. The world has to move but […]