The Covid-19 pandemic has caused excess deaths in India to cross more than four million, a new study has found. Excess deaths are a measure of how many more people are dying than would be expected compared to the previous few years. Although it is difficult to say how manyContinue Reading
New Delhi: In the first verdict on north-east Delhi riots, a court on July 20 acquitted a man of rioting and dacoity charges while noting that the prosecution “miserably failed” to prove its case. Freeing sole-accused Suresh alias Bhatura, Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat said the prosecution has not beenContinue Reading
New Delhi: Girls who had access to the free lunches provided at government schools, had children with a higher height-to-age ratio than those who did not, says a new study on inter-generational benefits of India’s midday meal scheme. Using nationally representative data on cohorts of mothers and their children spanningContinue Reading
New Delhi: Danish Siddiqui, India’s first Pulitzer Prize winner in feature photography who rose to the top of his profession while documenting conflict, carnages, and human suffering, was killed in a crossfire between Afghan forces and the Taliban on July 16. Siddiqui was reporting the war in Afghanistan for Reuters.Continue Reading
Chennai: Tamil Nadu health minister Ma Subramanian has said that preference in vaccination will be given to natives of pilgrimage towns of the state. He said that Tiruvannamalai, Nagore, Velnakanni, and Rameshwaram towns have been identified for this purpose. The state health minister was speaking after inaugurating a vaccination campContinue Reading
The Church of England is facing criticism after a priest committed suicide following false child abuse allegations made against him. After more than 12 months of being investigated, Father Alan Griffin took his own life in November last year, despite the allegations never being explained to him. The investigation wasContinue Reading
Panaji: A partial demolition of a church in Delhi, located more than 2,000 km from Goa, has taken the centre-stage in the early campaigning phase in the coastal state, which is headed for Assembly polls in early 2022. The demolition of the Syro-Malabar church located in South Delhi’s Chattarpur areaContinue Reading
Indore: Upper caste men allegedly stopped a Dalit groom and others in a marriage party from entering a temple and assaulted them at a tribal-dominated area in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore district. Following a complaint by the groom’s father, an FIR has been filed at Manpur police station under the IPCContinue Reading
Mumbai: At least 31 persons, including eight minors, lost their lives in Mumbai as incessant rain from July 17 night and throughout July 18 triggered a landslip, house collapse and electrocution. The Regional Meteorological Centre of Mumbai has predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall at few places, with extremely heavyContinue Reading
New Delhi: Ahead of a march planned by farmers near Parliament during the monsoon session, the Delhi police’s meeting with the farmer unions on July 18 remained inconclusive. A senior police officer said they had requested the farmers to reconsider their protest call citing the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA)Continue Reading
