Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday said that the state government will soon announce a financial package to steer the state out of the present economic crisis caused due to the COVID-19 situation.
Twelve migrants, two of them women, fell seriously ill after having dinner at their quarantine centre in Bihar's Sheikhpura, an official said on Friday.
Locust swarms pose a serious threat to flights while landing and taking off, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) warned on Friday amid the worst invasion of the pest that has swamped western and central India in nearly three decades.
A 38-year-old man died after he jumped off the fourth floor of a commercial complex on Ahmedabad's Ashram Road in panic during a fire on Friday afternoon, officials said.
Edited by Sumana Nandy | Friday May 29, 2020, New Delhi
Ajit Jogi, the first chief minister of Chhattisgarh, died today at the age of 74 after being in the hospital for nearly three weeks. Over the past week, Mr Jogi had suffered two cardiac arrests.
Two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel deployed in Jharkhand have donated blood to save the life of a , apprehended in an injured condition after an encounter with the force, on "humanitarian" grounds, officials said on Friday.
A Delhi court on Friday said that the investigation into a case related to the riots in northeast Delhi in February this year "seems to be targeted only towards one end" and the police have "failed to point out what investigation has been carried out so far regarding the involvement of the rival faction". The court has asked the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) leading the probe to "ensure a fair investigation."
In a bizarre incident in one of Uttar Pradesh's largest government hospitals, a monkey attacked a lab technician, snatched vials containing blood samples from three COVID-19 patients and escaped with them. The incident took place three days ago in west Uttar Pradesh's Meerut Medical College and Hospital. The hospital is a nodal centre for the treatment of COVID patients and also has a testing lab.
The CBI has launched a preliminary probe against the organisers of the Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi- which turned out to be the biggest coronavirus cluster in the country - for allegedly violating the foreign funding law,
Farmers are being asked to make as much of a racket as possible, using drums, tin containers, utensils and even hiring mobile disc jockeys, in an attempt to scare away locust swarms that are attacking the country.
