Tag: India
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Roundup: COVID-19 cases surpass 40,000 mark in India
The number of COVID-19 cases, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, in India crossed 40,000 marks on Sunday evening. The death toll due to the pandemic meanwhile has reached 1,306. With 2,487 positive cases and 83 fatalities due to COVID-19 since Sunday morning, the total tally of the novel coronavirus cases has reached…
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Sad! India returnee dies of coronavirus in Lagos
A 45-year-old Nigerian who returned from India has died of coronavirus-related complications in Lagos State. Lagos Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made this known on his Twitter handle on Tuesday. He said, “No new case of #COVID19 was confirmed in Lagos on 20th April, 2020. However, #COVID19 related deaths were recorded in Lagos. “One…
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AMAZING: Couple names twins after deadly Coronavirus
An Indian couple has named their twins Covid and Corona, born on the intervening night of March 26-27 in Raipur in Chhattisgarh, as the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ravages the world. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) learnt that the twin babies, male and female, named Covid and Corona respectively, were born in Dr BR Ambedkar Memorial Hospital, but the…
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COVID-19: Take cue from India, use hotels as isolation centres, Rep Abonta tells FG
The member representing Ukwa East, West of Abia State in the House of Representatives, Hon Uzoma Nkem-Abonta has advised the Federal Government to take a cue from India that used hotels as isolation centres. Nkem-Abonta in a telephone chat with TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) said India was proactive using all available resources to combat the COVID-19 scourge.…
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Four men executed for gang rape, murder
Four men were executed on Friday for the brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman in the Indian capital in 2012. The men were hanged to death in Delhi’s Tihar Jail, a jail official confirmed. A lone hangman carried out the executions after courts rejected last-minute pleas by the convicts’ lawyers, with the…
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India busts Nigerian-Afghan heroin cartel, arrest two Nigerians
India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has seized Afghan Heroin worth more than Rs 30 crore (about $4.2million) and arrested six persons, including two Nigerians who were part of an international drug smuggling syndicate, Asian News International (ANI) reported. The NCB in a press release on Friday did not identify the arrested Nigerians. They were arrested…
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JUST IN: 10 Nigerians escape from Indian jail
Ten yet-to-be identified Nigerians detained in a prison in Noida, Uttar Pradesh in India have escaped from jail. Reports, according to India’s Business Standard, said the Nigerians who were detained by Gautam Buddh Nagar police broke jail on Thursday. However, some of them have been recaptured. Additional Director General of Police of Meerut zone, said…
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56-year-old woman, daughter killed for practising witchcraft
An Indian woman and her daughter were beaten and hacked to death in eastern India for allegedly practising witchcraft, police said on Saturday. The killings took place in Jharkhand state’s West Singhbhum district on Thursday, senior police officer Anand Mohan Singh said. The 56-year-old woman, Malti Devi, was attacked by her neighbour, also a distant…
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Seven children missing after vehicle falls into canal
No fewer than seven children went missing on Thursday after a vehicle carrying 29 people fell into a canal in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, police said. According to the police, 22 people were rescued from the canal and search for the missing ones was underway. The accident took place in the morning in…
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370 people die of swine flu
Over 12,000 swine flu (H1N1 virus) cases have been reported across India so far this year with a total of 377 people feared to have died of the disease, local media reported on Tuesday. According to official data released by the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC), swine flu continues to spread. “As the total…