India

Kanpur: A temperature check remains compulsory for school-going students. Students are made to stand in open for a long time, which they do not like.

Their body temperature soars while standing under the sun. But the school authorities do not allow them to stand in the shade.

On Saturday a student was told to stand in the open as his body temperature was found above normal during the check-up. He requested the teacher to allow him to stand in a shaded area.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian security forces stepped up patrols on the border with Myanmar on Friday to stop refugees entering after some police officers crossed over to escape taking orders from the military junta there, officials said.

“As of now, we are not letting anybody enter,” Maria Zuali, senior government official in Mizoram state’s Champhai district, told Reuters by telephone.

The move follows the defection over the border of some low-ranking Myanmar police officers who were unwilling to obey orders to suppress demonstrations against the junta.

New Delhi, Mar 4 (PTI) IT services major Wipro on Thursday said it has signed an agreement to acquire London-headquartered Capco, a global management and technology consultancy, in a USD 1.45 billion (over Rs 10,500 crore) deal.

This will be the biggest ever acquisition by Wipro.

Srinagar, Mar 4 (PTI) The Army on Thursday launched the first-of-its-kind community radio station in north Kashmir's Sopore town, an official said.

With the tagline "Radio Chinar 90.4, Har Dil Ki Dhadkan", the radio station was inaugurated by General officer Commanding (GoC) Chinar Corps Lt Gen B S Rana.

The reach of the community radio station will be Sopore, Bandipora and Baramulla districts, the Army official said.

Mumbai, Mar 4 (PTI) A BJP corporator from Murbad in Thane district has been arrested for allegedly molesting a woman corporator, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said on Thursday.

The minister was speaking in the Legislative Council.

"Corporator Nitin Telavane from Murbad tried to molest a woman corporator after barging into her house around 12.40 am (last night)," the minister said.

Amaravati (AP), Mar 4 (PTI) The Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday issued an order for returning 2,180 acres of land, which was originally sought to be acquired for the Kakinada Special Economic Zone (KSEZ) way back in 2007, to the farmers following a protracted struggle.

The farmers who owned the land refused to part with their property nor receive compensation and carried out an agitation for many years.

Hyderabad, Mar 4 (PTI) A seroprevalence study done in Hyderabad has revealed that around 54 per cent of the city's residents developed antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, indicating prior exposure to coronavirus.

According to a CCMB release on Thursday, the joint study by the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) and vaccine-maker Bharat Biotech considered around 9,000 samples.

The scientists checked for antibodies against the virus in people across 30 wards of the city.

Chandigarh, Mar 4 (PTI) Describing the new farm laws as "unconstitutional and illegal", former Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday said they were an attack by the Centre upon the federal structure and the right of states to frame legislations.

He said the new laws will lead to auctioning of land in Punjab and leave its residents as "slaves" and asked the Congress government in the state to take "bold and solid steps" to meet the "aspirations" of people protesting against the legislations.

Kolkata, Mar 4 (PTI) The ruling TMC in West Bengal Thursday demanded the removal of Sudeep Jain, the deputy election commissioner in-charge of the state, accusing him of being biased against it and breaking norms of the federal structure.

TMC spokesperson Sougata Roy said that party leader Derek O' Brien has written to the Election Commission demanding that Jain be removed as he has a "track record" of being biased against it during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

New Delhi, Mar 4 (PTI) The Delimitation Commission, a panel for redrawing the parliamentary and Assembly constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir, has got a one-year extension, a move indicating that the Assembly polls in the Union Territory would not be held anytime soon.