More parts of India are under locust attack now. The migratory pests have invaded eastern Maharashtra where four to five villages have come under attack from the locusts. The locusts are known for feasting on all sorts of plants and standing crops. The district and agriculture department personnel in Maharashtra have initiated chemical spraying on crops and vegetation to save them from the migratory pests. “The swarm of desert locusts entered the state from Amravati district. It then went to Wardha and now it is in Nagpur’s Katol tehsil,” Joint director of agriculture department, Ravindra Bhosale, told news agency PTI.…
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Music composer Pritam Chakraborty’s father, Prabodh Chakraborty, has died after two-year battle with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. The ace composer’s father had been in the hospital for the last three months and breathed his last on Sunday. “He had been in hospital for last three months. Pritam, his sister and mother were there with him at the hospital. “He had been ill for almost 2 years and had been admitted in the hospital for three months. On Sunday, he ended the chapter of his life due to Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease,” a source close to Pritam told PTI. His last…
Donations have been pouring in for the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya. Lord Ram devotees have been making donaions in large scale inspite of lockdown and coronavirus crisis. A sum of Rs 4.60 crore has been deposited in the two accounts of the trust during the lockdown period. Acharya Satyendra Das, chief priest of the Ram temple, said, “We are confident that there will be no shortage of money for the temple. People are donating huge sums of money for the project and we will make sure that the temple that is built is unmatched in magnificence and grandeur.”…
With the addition of 6,087 cases, India’s Covid-19 count surged to over 1.42 lakh. India recorded more than 6,000 fresh Covid-19 infections for the fourth day running on Monday, but the count was slightly less than the numbers reported over the past three days, mainly on account of a drop of over 600 in Maharashtra as compared with Sunday’s record high of 3,041 cases in the state. Nagaland became the 34th state/Union territory to report coronavirus infections, when three people who had returned from Chennai tested positive in the state. A cross the country, 150 virus-related deaths were reported, the…
Major Suman Gawani, an Indian Army Major, has been selected for the 2019 UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award for her role in the organisation’s anti-sexual violence campaign. She has been called a “powerful role model” by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The army major has been working with the Army Signal Corps, through her “support, mentoring, guidance and leadership has helped to create enabling environment for UN Peacekeepers” by combating sexual violence in conflict situations, the UN said on Tuesday announcing the award. While deployed as a military observer with the UN Mission in South Sudan, Gawani “mentored over…
The government is planning to reopen schools in the Green and Orange districts first and that too only for older students while students of primary classes (1 to 7) will need to wait till schools are operating in full swing before they join. As per reports, younger children will be kept at home for now to make sure they remain safe since very young kids cannot be expected to follow strict rules to ensure their own safety. They will continue their studies from home. The official guidelines for reopening schools in India are likely to be released later this week.…
As the Chinese Army has deployed over 5,000 of its troops on the Line of Actual Control at different locations in the Ladakh sector, the Indian Army is also increasing presence of its troops to match their strength and is also enhancing its presence in other areas to deter the People’s Liberation Troops from carrying out transgressions in other areas. At present, the Chinese Army has diverted its troops carrying out a massive exercise on their side of the LAC and deployed them at short notice across the Line of Actual Control in the areas under the Indian Army’s 81…
At a sensitive time when Chinese and Indian troops have been on a face-off on and off in Sikkim and Ladakh, the Chinese embassy published a notice sharing detailed guidelines on the safety measures needed by those who opt to return. A notice published by the Chinese embassy in India said students, tourists and businessmen who have been stranded in India will be allowed to fly back to China on special flights. Only those who did not catch the infection or have no symptoms of coronavirus like fever or cough will be allowed and they will have to accept all…
A Pakistani man attacked the Guru Arjan Dev shrine in Derby on Monday morning. He was later identified and arrested. At around 6 a.m., “an individual entered the gurdwara premises causing thousands of pounds of damage. We can confirm that no individual was injured and that the clean-up process has begun.” Said the sources from the gurudwara. The gurdwara described the vandalisation of the shrine as a hate crime. The CCTV footages of the person showed smashed glass doors of the gurdwara, glass shards scattered all over the floor and a man inside the premises. The vandal left a hand-written…
Former MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s daughter Aishwarya Sengar has lodged an FIR against Congress leader Alka Lamba over her tweet. Aishwarya Sengar called Alka Lamba’s tweet a political conspiracy and fake. Lamba had tweeted that Kuldeep Singh had got the bail from the court at the behest of the Prime Minister and the Home Minister. Aishwarya submitted a complaint to Superintendent of Police (SP) Vikrantveer, calling the tweet a ”political conspiracy and fake”. While Kuldeep Sengar was not granted bail, the rape survivor”s uncle recieved the bail. Aishwarya said her lawyer had moved the Delhi High Court for the father”s…