Five houses were damaged after a landslide struck a village in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday. The landslide, triggered by heavy rains, hit Gandtop in the hilly Basantgarh sub-division late Saturday, they said.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has donated eyes of her mother at AIIMS after her demise on Sunday, he informed via posting a message on micro-blogging website, Twitter. Vardhan said that it was her mother's wish to donate eyes after her death. "As per her wish, her eye donation was made at AIIMS right after her demise," he posted.
A Delhi court has reserved its order on a plea filed by the Enforcement Directorate seeking an extension of custodial remand of ex-AAP councillor Tahir Hussain in a money laundering case against him in connection with the riots in northeast Delhi.
A police head constable, who had tested COVID-19 positive, allegedly jumped to death from the fifth floor of the TMU hospital here, officials said on Sunday. This is the third such incident in which a coronavirus patient has jumped to death at Teerthanker Mahaveer University (TMU) hospital, they said.
The Union Health Ministry will deploy Central teams to to Punjab and Union Territory of Chandigarh for ten days to provide extended guidance in managing COVID-19. The two-member teams will comprise a community medicine expert from PGIMER, Chandigarh and an epidemiologist from NCDC.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said the NDA's Goods and Services Tax (GST) is not a tax system but an "attack" on India's poor and on its small and medium businesses and urged all to stand against it. Dubbing the GST as "Gabbar Singh Tax", he said it is the second major attack on India's unorganised economy and is an "absolute failure".
The Delhi government's 10-week anti-dengue campaign kicksarted on Sunday, with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal checking his house for stagnant water. The campaign seeks to build greater awareness on prevention of vector-borne diseases in Delhi.Republic Day 2024 : As India's 75th Republic Day Parade kicked off in the national capital, a 30-member band contingent and a marching c...
