COVID-19 cases in Mumbai cross 2-lakh mark with 2,055 additions
Mumbai: The COVID-19 tally in this city crossed the two lakh-mark Monday and reached 2,00,775 with a single-day addition of 2,055 new cases, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. Forty more people succumbed to the COVID-19 infection taking the death...
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Another 4,014 COVID-19 patients recover in Odisha
Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported a total of 4,014 COVID-19 recoveries in the last 24 hours, the Health and Family Welfare Department, government of Odisha said on its Twitter handle Monday. All those who have recovered have been discharged from their respective treatment facilities spread across the state. With the new recoveries...
Read moreIndia’s COVID-19 tally crosses 60 lakh with 82,170 new cases
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally galloped past 60 lakh Monday with 82,170 new cases, while the recoveries have surged to 50.17 lakh with 74,893 more people having recuperated, the Health Ministry said. The death toll from the pathogen climbed to 95,542 with 1,039 more deaths. There are 9,62,640 active cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country, comprising 15.85 per cent of the total caseload, according to the ministry data. The...
Read moreIndia’s COVID-19 caseload nears 60 lakh; death toll climbs to 94,503
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 caseload neared 60 lakh with 88,600 fresh infections being reported Sunday, while the number of people having recuperated from the disease crossed 49 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to 82.46 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 59,92,532, while the death toll climbed to 94,503 with 1,124 people succumbing to the disease in a span of 24 hours, data updated...
Read moreBJP’s oldest ally SAD quits NDA over farm bills; here’s all you need to know
Chandigarh: The highest decision making body of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) core committee at its emergency meeting held here Saturday night unanimously decided to pull out of the BJP-led NDA alliance because of the Centre's stubborn refusal to give statutory legislative guarantees to protect the assured marketing of farmers' crops at minimum support price (MSP), thus snapping a three-decade-old alliance with the saffron party. "The government's decision on farm Bills is...
Read moreEconomic upheaval likely to deter RBI from quantifying FY21 growth forecast
New Delhi: The dynamic economic upheaval unleashed by COVID-19 pandemic might hinder the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) from giving a pin-pointed growth as well as inflation forecast in the upcoming monetary policy report, experts opined. The existing legislations mandate the RBI to come out with a growth and inflation forecast twice in an interval of six-months in the monetary policy report. Expectedly, the report is slated to be issued with the...
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Senior bureaucrat PD Vaghela appointed TRAI chairman
New Delhi: Senior bureaucrat PD Vaghela was Monday appointed as chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), according to a Personnel Ministry order. Vaghela is a 1986-batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre. He is currently Secretary, Department of Pharmaceuticals. Vaghela has been appointed as the TRAI chief for three years or till he attains the...
COVID-19 cases in Mumbai cross 2-lakh mark with 2,055 additions
Mumbai: The COVID-19 tally in this city crossed the two lakh-mark Monday and reached 2,00,775 with a single-day addition of 2,055 new cases, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. Forty more people succumbed to the COVID-19 infection taking the death toll to 8,831, the municipal body said. It took six months and 18 days since the first...
Naveen lays stone for two bridges over Mahanadi
Bhubaneswar: Ahead of Tirtol bypoll, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Monday laid the foundation stone for two bridges over river Mahanadi in Tirtol area of Jagatsinghpur district at a cost of `200 crore. While one bridge will be constructed by the Rural Development department at a cost of `118.56 crore, another bridge will be built by the Works...
Another daylight bank theft in Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar: There was another loot of a bank in broad daylight in the city here Monday. A miscreant barged into the public sector bank and looted nearly Rs 10 lakh at gunpoint. The back to back bank robbery has shown the deteriorating law and order situation in the city. There was a similar robbery in a city...
BJP calls Congress act of burning tractor ‘drama’, slams move
New Delhi: The Congress' youth wing activists Monday morning set a tractor ablaze near India Gate. The incident took place a few hundred metres from the Rashtrapati Bhavan and Parliament. The youth wing activists were protesting against the contentious farm laws. The move attracted the BJP’s diatribe as it accused the Congress of trying to ‘mislead’ the...
Virat Kohli fails again as RCB post 201 for 3 in 20 overs again MI
Dubai: RCB skipper Virat Kohli’s poor form with the bat in the 13th edition of the IPL continued here Monday. The RCB skipper failed to contribute for the third successive innings as he fell for two with his innings lasting just 11 balls. Virat Kohli was caught by his MI counterpart Rohit Sharma in the covers off...
RBI postpones MPC meeting as posts lie vacant
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) postponed Monday the meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The MPC is the all-important interest rate-setting panel. The RBI was forced to postpone the meeting over a possible lack of quorum. This is because the appointment of independent members is delayed. The RBI in a press release said that...
Pakistan opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif arrested in money laundering case
Lahore: Pakistan's top Opposition leader and PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif was arrested by the country's anti-graft body Monday. This development happened after a court rejected the bail plea of Shahbaz Sharif in a money laundering case. The development comes just ahead of the planned protests next month by his party - the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) ....
Madhya Pradesh IPS officer beats wife; relieved of duties after assault video goes viral
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan informed Monday that a senior state IPS officer has been relieved of duties. The development came after a video showing the IPS officer assaulting his wife went viral on social media. In the video, the officer, Purushottam Sharma is seen thrashing his wife, while the latter is seen resisting...
Another 4,014 COVID-19 patients recover in Odisha
Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported a total of 4,014 COVID-19 recoveries in the last 24 hours, the Health and Family Welfare Department, government of Odisha said on its Twitter handle Monday. All those who have recovered have been discharged from their respective treatment facilities spread across the state. With the new recoveries reported Monday, , the total number of...
