Amaravati: Another video has emerged from Andhra Pradesh on Monday highlighting utter disrespect being shown while disposing of dead bodies of Covid-19 victims in the state. In the second such incident in 10 days, authorities used a JCB excavator to lift the body of a Covid victim from an ambulance and dump it into a […]
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26 inmates of Ludhiana Central Jail test positive
Chandigarh: Twenty-six inmates of Punjab’s Ludhiana Central Jail tested Covid-19 positive on Sunday, officials said. They were asymptomatic. They had been kept in a separate barrack of the jail, Chief Medical Officer Rajesh Kumar Bagga told the media. Thirty-two inmates had been shifted from Borstal Jail — a special jail for coronavirus patients — after […]
20 ISRO officials to go into isolation as trainee Covid positive
Thiruvananthapuram: As many as 20 officials of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) here were on Thursday asked to go into isolation after a young trainee was found to be Covid positive. Having found out the trainee had visited a few offices at his unit here, the Indian space agency has also asked those who […]
Covid-19 scare: Howrah woman’s body kept on road for 7 hours
Kolkata: In a pathetic incident, a 53-year old woman’s body remained on the roadside for more than seven hours amid coronavirus scare at Bally’s Hapta Bazar in the Howrah district on Monday, the police said. According to sources, Rajkumari Jain died of respiratory issues in the morning. The residents of her apartment refused to allow […]
Wedding procession stopped as groom, father test positive
Amethi: A wedding procession was stopped and the wedding called off after the groom and his father tested positive for Coronavirus in Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh. The wedding procession had left the Kamrauli village in Amethi on Friday for Haidergarh in Barabanki where the wedding was to take place. The groom’s family had come […]
MP legislator Omprakash Saklecha tests positive after Rajya Sabha poll, triggers panic
Bhopal: Senior BJP legislator from Jawad constituency, Omprakash Saklecha, tested positive for Covid-19, a day after he voted for the Rajya Sabha polls, triggering panic in the political circles. Several MLAs who had joined him for dinner and other meetings preceding the polls made a beeline to the hospitals to check their corona status. “The […]
17 Punjab Police personnel test Covid-19 positive
Chandigarh: Seventeen Punjab Police personnel had tested Covid-19 positive in a random sampling of 7,165 cops doing frontline jobs as part of a special coronavirus testing drive, Director General of Police (DGP) Dinkar Gupta said, here on Saturday. It translated to around 0.9 per cent positive cases of total samples for the police force against […]
Court denies Covid-19 woman patient bail in terror case
New Delhi: A Delhi Court on Tuesday denied interim bail to a Kashmiri woman, who had recently tested Covid-19 positive in the National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody. Hina Bashir Khan and her husband Jahanzaib Sami were arrested in March for instigating protests against the new citizenship law and planning a terror attack. Last week, the […]