Setting an example, Inspector General of Police (Kanpur range) Mohit Agarwal got himself challaned for not wearing a mask in public. Agarwal asked the Station House Officer of Barra police station, Ranjeet Singh, to fine him for stepping out without wearing a mask. The SHO made the challan and handed over a copy to the...

An eight-month pregnant woman died in an ambulance after a frantic 13-hour hospital hunt failed to find her a bed as over half-a-dozen facilities denied her treatment, her family claimed on Saturday. Neelam, 30, and her husband Vijender Singh, 30, knocked the doors of eight hospitals, including government ones, before she died in the ambulance...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday announced that Delhi’s borders will be opened for inter-state movement from Monday and hospitals in the national capital will be available for people of Delhi only, while Central hospitals will remain open for all. In another development, Delhi Government has decided to withdraw the ‘special corona fee’ levied...

Joe Biden has formally clinched the Democratic presidential nomination and polls have shown he is ahead of President Donald Trump in the US. The presidential election in the US will be held in the backdrop of a pandemic, economic collapse and civil unrest. Bident managed to get the 1,991 delegates needed to become the nominee...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday hit out at the opposition BJP for “engaging in politics” at a time when the state was dealing with the coronavirus crisis and the devastation caused by cyclone Amphan. “I really feel bad that when we are fighting against COVID-19 and Amphan and working to save lives,...

Environment Day: Everything around us is the environment, the food we eat, the water we drink, the fuel we use, the warmth of the sun, the coolness of the breeze, the land, the fire, the air, the vegetation and the flora and fauna, all together make the environment. We are a part of this ecosystem...

A high-ranking Bihar bureaucrat has triggered a controversy by linking the return of migrants with a possible rise in the rate of crime in the state. On May 29, Bihar’s Additional Director General (Law & Order) Amit Kumar wrote a letter to the Superintendents of Police of all districts, alerting them about a possible hike...

Partial waving off property tax, electricity bill and motor vehicle tax for individuals and others are part of the Gujarat government’s Gujarat Aatmanirbhar package worth Rs 14,000 crore announced on Thursday. The package is aimed at helping individuals, industries and businesses recover from the pandemic related lockdown and its impact. In all the partial waiver...

The Supreme Court on Friday asked private hospitals whether they are ready to provide treatment to COVID-19 infected patients at the charges prescribed under the government’s Ayushman Bharat Scheme. The query came during the hearing of a plea seeking a direction for regulating the cost of treatment of COVID-19 at private hospitals across the country....

A man was arrested and another detained by a team of the police and forest department in Kerala in connection with the brutal killing of a pregnant elephant in Palakkad. State’s forest minister K Raju was quoted by local media as saying that the arrested man has been identified as P Wilson. The man works...

The IMF has asked cash-strapped Pakistan to freeze salaries of government employees, news agencies reported on Friday. It has also asked the country to stick to the path of fiscal consolidation. The country has a public debt of whopping 90% of the total value of the national economy. Local media said that the country was...

The Gujarat high court has for the second time rejected a bail plea of Asaram who is in jail in connection with the rape of a devotee at his Motera Ashram in the year 2013. The court while dismissing the petitions said that the reasons for applying for bail in the current application as well...