Petrol, diesel price hiked again, cost 30% more than ATF
New Delhi, Oct 17 (PTI) Petrol and diesel price on Sunday was hiked again by 35 paise a litre and the auto fuels now cost a third more than the rate at which ATF is sold to airlines. The fourth straight day of 35 paise per litre hike sent petrol and diesel rates to record highs […]
India logs 14,146 fresh Covid cases, 144 new deaths
New Delhi, Oct 17 (PTI) India recorded 14,146 fresh COVID-19 infections in a day taking the cumulative cases to 3,40,67,719 while the death toll climbed to 4,52,124 with 144 more fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry’s data on Sunday. Active cases have declined to 1,95,846 and comprise 0.57 per cent of the total infections. The […]
Three persons from Haryana injured after truck falls into Nallh in Shopian
Srinagar, Oct 17: Three persons were injured, one of them critically, when a truck skidded off the road and fell into nallah (rivulet) in shopian district of south Kashmir on Sunday. They said the truck bearing registration (HR39E-2622) coming from Heerpora to Shopain skidded off from road and fell in to nalla at Padpawan, causing […]
Russia’s daily COVID-19 deaths top 1,000 for first time
Moscow, Oct 17 (AP) Russia’s daily death toll from COVID-19 has exceeded 1,000 for the first time as the country faces a sustained wave of rising infections. The national coronavirus task force on Saturday reported 1,002 deaths in the previous day, up from 999 on Friday, along with 33,208 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, more than […]
Golgappa’ vendor Arvind Kumar wanted to get his family out of poverty
Srinagar, Oct 17 (PTI) Arvind Kumar Sah was selling golgappas’ — a type of street food — in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar city with the hope to earn enough money to improve the lives of his poverty-stricken family back home in Bihar. However, that dream of the 30-year-old was snapped in a jiffy by his […]
Militants kill two non-locals
Srinagar: Two non-locals were shot dead by militants in Srinagar and Pulwama districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police said. Arvind Kumar Sah (30), a resident of the Banka area in Bihar, was shot at by the ultras outside a park at Eidgah in Srinagar in the evening, a police official said. He said […]
