Surat (Gujarat) [India], July 19 (ANI): While the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing lockdown led to many people losing their source of income, a Surat-based NGO has come forward to support the sex workers in the region and to provide them skill-training.
Bhadradri Kothagudem (Telangana) [India], July 19 (ANI): A woman from a remote village in Telangana's Bhadradri Kothagudem district delivered a baby with the help of an ASHA worker while she was being taken to hospital by her husband.
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], July 19 (ANI): Famous Indian Coffee house at Shimla has been closed temporarily after one of its employees, who returned from Delhi, entered its kitchen, skipping the quarantine norms, police said. The worker has been sent to quarantine and a case has been
North 24 Parganas (West Bengal) [India], July 18 (ANI): Trinamool Congress supporters allegedly attacked BJP workers during a protest against several issues in the Jagatdal area of the North 24 Parganas district on Saturday.
New Delhi [India], July 18 (ANI): The outlook for kharif season (June to October) remains favourable as sowing was 44.1 per cent higher than the year-ago level and more than half of the 2019 kharif acreage had been covered, investment information firm ICRA has said.
Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 17 (ANI): A 21-year-old Bharat Sena worker surrendered before the police on Friday in connection with the desecration of Periyar's status in Coimbatore.
London [UK], July 17 (ANI): Queen Elizabeth II on Friday conferred the knighthood on 100-year-old Captain Tom Moore who raised almost £33 million for the health workers in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic.
Nalanda (Bihar) [India], July 17 (ANI): The relatives of a dead woman had to drag her body on a hand cart to her village in Jurarpur on Friday after they were denied an ambulance because of an ongoing strike by ambulance workers in Bihar's Nalanda district.
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], July 17 (ANI): The Odisha government on Friday announced a monthly pension for the family members of ASHA and Anganwadi workers, who succumb to the COVID-19 virus while in line of duty in the state.
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 17 (ANI): BSP chief Mayawati on Friday stressed upon the plight of migrants during the coronavirus times and said they are reeling under poverty due to rampant unemployment in the state.
New Delhi [India], July 16 (ANI): A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to the central government to extend the provision of dry rations to stranded migrant workers for at least one year under the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan scheme.