125 on Italy-Amritsar charter flight test positive
Amritsar: As many as 125 of the total 179 passengers on a Milan-Amritsar charter flight were found to be Covid positive when tested on arrival, government officials said. TNS
UP renames Sainik School after Gen Rawat
Lucknow: The UP Government has decided to rename the Sainik School at Mainpuri after first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, who died in a chopper crash last month. PTI
NEET-PG: Doctors’ federation moves SC
New Delhi: A doctors’ federation has moved the Supreme Court saying there was an urgent need to commence the NEET-PG counselling and that the quota issue would cause further delay. PTI
PM to open cancer institute today
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the second campus of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) in Kolkata through video-conferencing on Friday. This is the first programme of Modi in West Bengal since the Assembly elections in the state last year. TNS
5 Al-Qaida operatives chargesheeted
New Delhi: The NIA has filed a chargesheet before a special court here against five alleged operatives of Al-Qaida for their involvement in a conspiracy to carry out blasts in UP. Museeruddin, Minhaj Ahmad, Shakeel, Mustaqeem and Mohammad Moid, all residents of Lucknow, have been charged under the IPC, UAPA, Arms Act and the Explosive Substances Act. TNS
6 workers die after inhaling toxic fumes
Surat: Six factory workers died and 22 others were hospitalised after they inhaled toxic fumes leaking from a chemical tanker parked near a factory in Surat district early Thursday morning. The workers were in the dyeing factory. PTI
