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PESHAWAR/MARDAN: Coronavirus claimed 42 more lives and 787 new cases were detected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday as the weeklong lockdown ended in Mardan after slump in infectivity level of virus in the district where positivity for virus declined after imposition of restrictions. Amid three wave of the pandemic, which has so far killed 3,392 persons and infected 1,20,064 others since its onset, Provincial Doctors Association chairman Dr Zubair Zahir in a statement said that elective services...

Bhopal :Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that there is adequate arrangement of beds, oxygen, medicines, injections etc. in hospitals for treatment in all districts of the state. Covid Care Centers are being set up in every district.

Austin-Travis County EMS launches SPARTAN drone flight team Published  ATCEMS says the team name "SPARTAN" is an acronym for Special Projects – Aerial Recon – Transport – Aid – Navigation. AUSTIN, Texas - Austin-Travis County EMS has announced the creation of a public safety Unmanned Aerial System program.  ATCEMS says the team name "SPARTAN" is an acronym for Special Projects – Aerial Recon – Transport – Aid – Navigation. The SPARTAN Team currently has sixteen qualified UAS...

Image used for representational purpose only NOIDA: Om Prakash Bhutani lost no time in getting the vaccine shot he had been waiting for. He also made sure someone was around, not so much to escort him as to take a picture. It was for his sons. “My children were very concerned. As soon as the schedule was out for senior citizens, they got me registered online,” said the 92-year-old, a former director general police ITBP who lives by himself in his Noida house, with a helper. On Monday, he w...

A foot-beat assignment is the quintessential best and worst job in my business. You make hundreds of contacts that help you, amuse you, and make your life productive and fun. However, the downside is, you get to arrest the same 87 drunks, idiots, and petty criminals over and over, every day, every night, rain or shine. Going to the “Chapel” One afternoon, my partner Mark  and I got called into the “Chapel” at Mission Station to see the senior lieutenant. It was known as the Chapel, bec...

  Police have warned residents of Abor and surrounding communities that they would be prosecuted if they disregard the COVID-19 safety protocols. The warning follows the non-adherence to the safety measures, especially the wearing of face masks. A statement signed by Superintendent Daniel Carlos Atongnab, the Abor District Commander of Police and copied to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), said the District command would undertake an operation to check the wearing of face masks on Monday. "Due to t...

Three armed men on Monday broke into the GOIL Filling Station Ashongman Pure Water in Accra and took away GHC2,006 and murdered a security man in the process.

Unsplash Basikopo Makamu, Limpopos Cogta MEC, writes that as the numbers of Covid cases increase in Limpopo, he has written to all 27 mayors across the province to encourage enforcement with lockdown regulations in order to flatten the curve. At one point, many thought that the coronavirus was only a distant myth, and that no friend, parent or spouse could succumb to it. Here in Limpopo, rural as it is, many thought that the heat and the supposed traditional way of living would keep the virus ...

But for the timely response of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), Madina Station, the Kwabenya-Atomic Market would have been completely consumed by fire on Sunday dawn as they averted a looming major disaster when a small part of the market caught fire.