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RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday slammed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over FIRs registered against two reporters, asking why he was scared of those "highlighting the ground reality and truth".The two comprised a reporter from ...
Eighteen persons, including two ward councillors and husbands of four women ward councillors, were arrested in Bihar's Bhojpur district on Wednesday evening for participating in a "liquor party", police said.A team, led by Bhojpur's ...
Lodhi Road crematorium turns away bodies for want of space Updated: Updated: April 29, 2021 01:09 IST We have lost count of the number of pyres being lit these days, says a staffer Share Article Pyres burning at a crematorium in Subhash Nagar in Delhi. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar We have lost count of the number of pyres being lit these days, says a staffer By 1 p.m. on Wednesday, employees at the Lodhi Road crematorium began telling ambulances lining up outside to try and get a slot elsewhere. “ Kuch khali nahi hain. Kahin aur jao [No slot is empty, go somewhere else]”, the a...
Crammed cremation grounds, poor health infra, govt denial: Why UP is the next Covid hotspot in the making Rising Covid-19 deaths, mass cremations, acute shortage of beds and medical oxygen, are all indicators that Uttar Pradesh is India's next Covid-19 hotspot in the making unless some drastic measures are taken. advertisement Mass cremation of Covid-19 patients at Bhairavghat crematorium in Kanpur on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI) Hindus do not cremate their dead at night. But the burning embers from funeral pyres long into the night across crematoriums in Uttar Pradesh, much like other states, prese...
Even as a special freight train, Oxygen Express, carrying 51,000 litres of medical oxygen in three tankers arrived in Uttar Pradesh from Bokaro on Saturday, problems continue for patients in home isolation. The state government has made it mandatory for patients in home isolation to produce doctor's prescription before they can buy oxygen cylinders. Lokendra Tripathi, who needs oxygen for his father, 83, and mother, 79, "I need to keep oxygen for an emergency situation and no doctor is ready to give a prescription even though they verbally advise me to keep a cylinder at hand. Both the par...