A man who duped many people on the pretext of providing jobs in AIIMS and also facilitating services at the hospital has been arrested from south Delhi's Pul Pehlad Pur area, police said on Wednesday.
A 13-year-old boy was burnt alive and two of his friends injured after they came in contact with a live wire while clicking selfies atop a train coach, which has been converted into a COVID isolation unit, in Odisha's Gajapati district on Wednesday, police said. P Surya and his two friends went atop the coach kept at the Parlakhemundi railway station and were clicking selfies, they said.
Over 100 experts from friendly neighbouring nations have so far been trained to strengthen capacities in their countries for facilitating phase-3 clinical trials of Indian COVID-19 vaccine, a senior official of the department of biotechnology said on Wednesday. Addressing a webinar organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry, Alka Sharma, an adviser with the Department of Biotechnology, said the partnership for advancing clinical trials (PACT) initiative is being carried out in association with the external affairs ministry.
The total number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed 74.5 million, including 1,655,041 fatalities. As many as 52,362,780 patients are reported to have recovered. Follow this breaking news blog for live updates on the coronavirus pandemic as it continues to pose a challenge for health workers and scientists who are in a race against time to produce a vaccine/medicine.
After Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP of trying to import Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM in the poll-bound state to sharpen the communal polarization so that they can divide the Hindu-Muslim votes among themselves, The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief on Wednesday said never was a man born who can buy him with money and asked the TMC chief to worry about the defections from her party.
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday stayed the metro car shed project at Mumbai's Kanjur Marg and asked the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to maintain the status quo. Earlier on Monday, the high court had asked the Maharashtra government to consider withdrawing the order passed by the Mumbai Suburban District Collector, allotting 102 acres of saltpan land for the construction of a Metro car shed. Following this, the state government today said it was ready to take back its October 15 order of land allotment to MMRDA for Metro car shed at Kanjur Marg. 
Buoyed by the results of Bihar assembly elections, AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi is looking to spread its wings in northern states. Owaisi on Wednesday met Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief Om Prakash Rajbhar at a Lucknow hotel. The meeting between the two leaders has triggered talks of alliance between the AIMIM and SBSP for the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. The country's most populous state will got to polls in 2022.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...
