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Not just sins, ‘Ganga water can end corona’

Varanasi, May 21 (IANS) Eminent river engineer and former professor of civil engineering at IIT in the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Prof. U.K. Choudhary...

Airfares within prescribed limits, no meal service on board

New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) The Centre has asked airlines to set ticket prices within the prescribed lower and upper limits during the COVID-19...

Cyclone Amphan hits Bengal; high-speed winds in Kolkata

Kolkata, May 20 (IANS) Severe cyclonic storm Amphan made a landfall in West Bengal on Wednesday afternoon, with Kolkata and its nearby areas witnessing...

Cyclone Amphan: Odisha govt seeks preliminary report from districts

Bhubaneswar, May 20 (IANS) The Odisha government on Wednesday asked the district collectors to submit cyclone Amphan damage assessment reports within 48 hours. "We have...

A unique underground library has 900,000 books in Rajasthan

Jaipur, May 20 (IANS) The libraries come in different shapes and sizes across the world. But the one laying beneath a temple at the...

Cabinet nod to extend senior citizens’ pension scheme by 3 years

New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) In good news for the senior citizens, the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the...

With 398 new cases, Guj’s corona tally jumps to 12,539

Gandhinagar, May 20 (IANS) The total number of Coronavirus positive cases climbed over the 9,000-mark for the hotspot Ahmedabad, as 271 fresh cases were...

Free foodgrains to migrants for 2 months

New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the scheme to provide foodgrains free of cost to the migrants and stranded...

Corona cases in India cross 1 lakh-mark with 134 deaths in 24 hours

New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The number of novel Coronavirus patients in India passed the significant one-lakh mark on Tuesday with total number of...

Amphan weakens into ‘extremely severe cyclonic storm’

New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Cyclone Amphan, with 700 km width and 15 km height, is whirling 570 km south-southwest of West Bengal's Digha...