Counselling centre set up to nip domestic conflicts: Noida Police
India will have an important role to play in scaling up vaccine production: PM Modi
Technical snag disrupts power supply in 3 Arunachal districts
Lease rent for food vendors at Mumbai's Juhu beach revised to reduce govt's annual revenue
Several cities across India, including Mumbai, Bangalore are reportedly facing a shortage of the experimental antiviral drug Remdesivir. Delhi is also struggling to source it from other cities or buying it at exorbitant prices. In Delhi, both private and government hospitals have reported depleting stock of the coronavirus medicine.
India's coronavirus case tally has risen to 7.67 lakh as 24,879 cases have been reported in the last 24 hours. India has also registered 487 single day deaths. The overall death toll in the country has risen to 21,129 while the number of recovered patients has gone up to 476,378. India currently has 269,789 active COVID-19 cases.
Police said today all the eight personal security guards (PSOs) deployed for the protection of former BJP district president, Sheikh Wasim Bari have been arrested for questioning.
Gangster Vikas Dubey who was responsible for the killing of 8 policemen in Kanpur has been arrested from Ujjain's Mahakal temple. Initial reports suggested that a man had been arrested who claimed to be Vikas Dubey. The Madhya Pradesh Police has now confirmed that he is indeed the most wanted gangster.
The city government revised its 'COVID Response Plan' following suggestions from the National Centre for Disease Control, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and NITI Aayog in view of a significant number of cases being reported as isolated cases in Delhi.
The crackdown is being carried out chiefly under the Section 14(1) of the Gangsters Act, which allows attachment of illegal properties, in order to effectively curb gangsters, mafias and criminals and their associates, the officials said.
he highest number of active containment zones are concentrated in South and West Bengaluru.Active containment zones doubled in the last eight days while the city has seen a total of 3,276 containment zones.
Talking to reporters after a meeting of the cabinet sub-committee on Maratha quota in Mumbai, Chavan said discussion revolved around the stand to be taken by the Shiv Sena-led government in the Supreme Court during a hearing on July 15 on the reservation issue.
In light of the deteriorating COVID-19 situation in the state, Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government has decided to impose a strict 7-day lockdown across the state. The lockdown comes into place today, at 5 pm, and will be applicable for a period of 7 days, till July 16.
The government had told the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) to continue with its infrastructure projects in the region near the Line of Actual Control (LAC), even as a standoff began on May 5 between the Indian and Chinese armies in eastern Ladakh.
The Madhya Pradesh government on Wednesday decided to enforce a complete lockdown across the state on Sundays after a spike in COVID-19 cases in some districts during the past one week.
With 2,033 new coronavirus cases and 48 deaths in the last 24 hours, the national capital on Wednesday recorded a total tally of 1,04,864 and 3,213 deaths.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that Indians have done their best to respond to China’s “incredibly aggressive actions”, asserting that Beijing has a pattern of "instigating" territorial disputes and the world shouldn't allow this bullying to take place.
The Pune district administration on Wednesday filed a case against an ambulance service provider in the city for overcharging a COVID-19 patient.
Pakistan said on Wednesday that Indian prisoner on death row Kulbhushan Jadhav has refused to file an appeal in the Islamabad High Court against his conviction by a military court despite Pakistani authorities' offer to do so, a claim dismissed by India as "farce".
BJP leader Wasim Bari, his father, and brother have been shot dead by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora. The former BJP district president, along with his father and brother, was present outside his shop near Bandipur police station when they were shot dead at 9 pm.
The Jorhat district administration in Assam has decided to impose a week-long "total lockdown" across Jorhat city from July 9 to check the spread of coronavirus
Ahead of West Bengal lockdown tomorrow, the list contaionment zones in Howrah districts have been updated by Mamata Banerjee-led government on Wednesday. The West Bengal Government has merged the containment and buffer zones to form "broad-based" containment zone where complete lockdown will be imposed from 5 pm on July 9 to contain the spread of novel Coronavirus.
A 40-year-old woman died and her husband was hospitalised after they allegedly consumed a poisonous substance over denial of entry into their village that was declared a COVID-19 containment zone near Pune in Maharashtra, police said on Wednesday.
Amid a multi-pronged cyberwar, the Indian Army has decided to ban 89 apps for personnel as it took into account security considerations. The banned apps include Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Hungama, Songs.pk, Tinder, TrulyMadly, and more. The decision comes after an "exponential increase" in the number of cases being targeted by their intelligence agencies.
As part of the scheme, existing vacant government funded housing complexes will be converted in Affordable Rental Housing Complexes through Concession Agreements for 25 years.
As coronavirus cases continue to rise rapidly across the state, the West Bengal government on Tuesday decided to impose strict lockdown in COVID-19 affected areas by clubbing together containment zones and buffer zones near them from July 9. The administration stated that the buffer zones along with containment zones will be put under total lockdown from 5 pm on Thursday.
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the extension of the deadline for availing the benefits of "Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana" for Ujjwala beneficiaries by three months with effect from 1 July 2020, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said.
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