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Ghaziabad: Girl dies as portion of house collapses

11:32 pm July 29, 2021

Ghaziabad: A six-year-old died as she was buried alive after a portion of a house collapsed due to heavy rainfall, police said on Thursday. Another girl escaped with minor injuries. The incident took place at Pasonda village when a balcony of a house under which the girls were playing caved in. Deputy Superintendent Police Alok […]

India adds 43,645 COVID-19 cases, 640 deaths

11:59 pm July 28, 2021

New Delhi: India recorded 43,654 fresh COVID-19 cases on Wednesday that took its tally to 3,14,84,605 while 640 more fatalities pushed the death toll to 4,22,022, according to Union health ministry data. The number of active cases stood at 3,99,436, an increase of 1,336 in a span of 24 hours, and comprises 1.27 per […]

Assistant engineer held for taking bribe

11:58 pm July 28, 2021

Jaipur: An assistant engineer (AE) was arrested on Wednesday allegedly while he was taking a bribe of Rs 5 lakh in Rajasthan’s Barmer district, an Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) official said. Sohan Lal, who was posted as AE at Dhorimana panchayat samiti, had allegedly demanded the bribe from private firms for clearing bills of development works. […]

Missing notes from Nashik mint were not stolen: police

11:57 pm July 28, 2021

Nashik (Maha): The mystery behind notes worth Rs 5 lakh going missing from the Currency Note Press (CNP) here has been solved and there had been no theft but a wrong categorization, city police said on Wednesday. The missing bundles were wrongly `punched’ by two supervisors from the cut-pack section of the unit who later […]

Eight dead, 17 missing as cloudbursts hit J-K and Ladakh

11:54 pm July 28, 2021

Jammu/Srinagar/Kargil: A series of cloudbursts struck different parts in the twin Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh overnight, killing eight people and leaving 17 others missing, officials said on Wednesday. The cloudbursts hit Dacchan and Boujwa areas in Kishtwar; the holy cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas; Bandipora in north Kashmir […]