Sometimes it can take 11 years to cover a distance of 100 metres. At least that appears to be the crux of an astounding tale from Kerala involving a missing woman. On June 7, 2021, truck driver Alinchuvattil Basheer spotted his brother Alinchuvattil Rahman riding a motorcycle in Nenmara town, around 30 kilometres from Palakkad. Rahman’s family hadn’t seen him…
June 11 marks the Krishna Paksha’s Pratipada tithi of Jyeshtha month in Vikram Samvat 2078. The day will be Shukrawara (Friday). According to Hindu beliefs, Friday is dedicated to the goddess Santoshi. Many devotees observe fast on this day to please the goddess. It is said that keeping fast on 16 consecutive Fridays blesses the devotees with the goddess’ favour.…
The report further stated that there are no reports of deaths in a sample size of 63 people, even though almost all cases reported high-grade unremitting fever for 5-7 days. The call for a fresh investigation was initiated by Joe Biden’s administration and follows the US president’s decision to expand the American investigation into the origins of the pandemic, with…
The Centre has written to the states and Union territories, advising them not to share the data of the Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) system on vaccine stocks and the temperature of vaccine storage at public forums, and stating that it is a “sensitive information and to be used only for programme improvement”. In a recent letter to the states,…
Nearly a dozen districts of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday morning witnessed heavy rainfall. Few parts in these districts are still receiving the rainfall and many parts will receive the rainfall in the next few hours of the day, the Meteorological Department has predicted. The districts which are witnessing the heavy rainfall with strong winds since Thursday morning are – Lakhimpur…
One person died after three houses in a chawl located at Dahisar, a western suburb of Mumbai, collapsed on Thursday evening, civic officials said. The incident occurred at Lokhandi Chawl in Shivaji Nagar area of Dahisar east around 6.36 pm, they said. On being alerted, the personnel of fire brigade and other agencies rushed to the spot, the Brihanmumbai Municipal…
Calling it “fake”, the Centre on Thursday dismissed media reports of an alleged data leak of database of about 15 crore Indians who registered themselves on the CoWIN portal for Covid-19 vaccination drive. “There have been some unfounded media reports on the CoWIN platform being hacked. Prima facie, these reports appear to be fake,” a statement issued by the Union…
India has set itself an ambitious target of vaccinating the entire population by the end of December this year, for which Uttar Pradesh, the country’s largest state needs to ramp up its speed of inoculation by almost 9 times. According to a report by Times of India, taking into population of the state as per Census 2021 and the number…
Mumbai Rains LIVE Updates: The weather department added that monsoon is likely to advance into more parts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, some parts of Odisha and more parts of West Bengal during the next two days.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday said that the model implemented by the civic body to contain the spread of Covid-19 infections will now be used by the Delhi government as well. The announcement came after a team comprising of senior officials of the Delhi Government’s Health Department, Dr Sanjay Agarwal and Dr Dharmendra Kumar paid a visit to…