Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra also announced night curfew from 8 p.m., weekend lockdown. While ruling out a stringent lockdown, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra government on Sunday tightened restrictions further by announcing a night curfew and weekend lockdown across the State in the wake of the relentless surge in COVID-19 cases. The fresh norms, which come into effect today, include a curfew from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. (Monday to Friday), a ban on gatherings of five or more persons throughout the day, and, in a determined bid to prevent gatherings, a closure of malls, restaurants and bars. Also read: Coronavirus |…
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Thirteen labourers were injured, five of them seriously, after a scaffolding collapsed on them during maintenance work in a power plant in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district on Sunday, the police said.The incident took place at the privately-run Lanco Anpara Power Limited Project in the district located on the eastern fringes of the State.While eight injured labourers were discharged after treatment at the site, the other five, aged 20-34 years, were admitted to a hospital, the company running the plant said.All are out of danger as per doctors, said the government. No worker was trapped, said Amrendra P.D. Singh, Superintendent of…
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the head of the local Catholic church, said that action should be taken against former President Maithirpala Sirisena without delay Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has vowed to take action against the perpetrators of the deadly Easter attacks in 2019 that claimed 270 lives, as the minority Christian community members celebrated Easter Sunday across the island nation amid tight security.Nine suicide bombers, belonging to local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) linked to ISIS, carried out coordinated blasts that tore through three churches and as many luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on the Easter Sunday in…
An investigation is underway as to how exactly Lee Yi-Hsiang’s vehicle slid down onto the tracks Friday from a nearby construction site on the mountainous coast of eastern Hualien county The owner of a construction truck that caused Taiwan’s worst rail accident in decades, killing 48 people, apologised in tears while being led away from his home by police on Sunday.The unmanned truck’s emergency brake was not properly engaged, according to the government’s disaster relief center.An investigation is underway as to how exactly Lee Yi-Hsiang’s vehicle slid down onto the tracks Friday from a nearby construction site on the mountainous…
Anti-Terrorism Court Lahore Judge Ejaz Ahmad Buttar on April 3 handed down nine-year imprisonment to each five of them A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has sentenced five leaders of Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) to nine years of imprisonment each in a terror financing case.Also read: JuD chief Hafiz Saeed gets 10 years in jail for terror fundingThree of them — Umar Bahadar, Nasarullah and Samiullah — have been convicted for the first time since the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Lahore pronounced its verdict some time ago in the terror financing cases registered by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the…
The cause of the fire is not known yet. Over two dozen shops were gutted in a massive fire that broke out in a market in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday night, officials said.The fire started in a shop at Baba Reshi market in Tangmarg area of the north Kashmir district, the officials said on Sunday.It spread rapidly, engulfing the nearby shops in the market. Twenty-eight shops were gutted in the fire, they said.Fire tenders and police personnel helped douse the flames, the officials said.The cause of the fire is not known yet, they said. Source
L-G Manoj Sinha, who also met NC vice-president Omar Abdullah at the hospital, instructed the doctors to provide best treatment to Farooq Abdullah Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha visited the SKIMS hospital in Srinagar on April 4 to enquire about the health of National Conference (NC) president and MP Farooq Abdullah, who is undergoing treatment for COVID-19.Mr. Sinha, who met Mr. Abdullah’s son and NC vice-president Omar Abdullah at the hospital, instructed the doctors at the SKIMS to provide best treatment to the MP from Srinagar.“In Srinagar, I met Omar Abdullah at SKIMS Hospital, Soura. Enquired about Farooq…
Fighting erupted in Tigray in early November after forces loyal to the then-governing party there attacked army bases across the region. Eritrean forces have started withdrawing from Ethiopia’s Tigray region in the north, the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry said.The United States, Germany, France and other G7 countries called on Friday for a swift, unconditional and verifiable In a rejoinder issued late on Saturday through the Foreign Ministry, Ethiopia said that the G7 foreign ministers’ statement had not acknowledged key steps being taken to address the needs of the region.“The Eritrean troops who had crossed the border when provoked by the TPLF…
In a letter to the Uttar Pradesh Additional Chief Secretary (Home), Punjab Home department asked for suitable arrangements to be made for the transfer of the undertrial prisoner. Punjab’s home department has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to take custody of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari from Rupnagar jail by April 8.Ansari, who is wanted in various cases in Uttar Pradesh, has been lodged in Rupnagar district jail in connection with an alleged extortion case since January 2019.In a letter to the Uttar Pradesh Additional Chief Secretary (Home), the Home department of Punjab asked for suitable arrangements to be made for the…
Madrid moved to within three points of leader Atlético Madrid, which faces a tough test at fourth-place Sevilla on Sunday. Marco Asensio and Karim Benzema scored in a 2-0 win over Eibar as Real Madrid tightened the Spanish league title race before its meeting with Liverpool in the Champions League. Asensio had already hit the woodwork before he opened the scoring in the 41st minute. Benzema added a second goal with a header in the 73rd. Madrid moved to within three points of leader Atlético Madrid, which faces a tough test at fourth-place Sevilla on Sunday. Barcelona is four points…