Indian Sub-continent

Kanpur: A doctor couple from the Kanpur Medical College has been suspended for practising privately.

The senior doctor and his wife have been suspended after the Income Tax Department raided their home, last month.

They have been transferred to Banda Medical College now.

While Dr Gupta was a Neuro Surgeon at GSVM Medical College and his wife was an assistant professor in the Pathology Department.

The principal of the college, Dr Sanjay Kala has also sought clarification from the doctors for private practice and notice has been issued.

KABUL, Apr 20 (NNN-ANA) – More than 450 tonnes of expired food and beverages were destroyed in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, the country’s Ministry of Public Health said today.

The spoiled food and expired beverages were seized by health authorities, in a commercial hub in Police District (PD) 1 and from several shops and supermarkets in PD 8. They were destroyed in Qalacha, an area on the southern outskirts of Kabul, the ministry wrote on Twitter.

The ministry vowed to continue the crackdown on the illegal sale and disposal of expired food across the country.

NEW DELHI, Apr 20 (NNN-PTI) – India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 43,047,594 today, as 2,067 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data.

Besides, 40 more deaths from the pandemic were recorded since yesterday morning, taking the death toll to 522,006.

Currently there are 12,340 active cases in the country, with an increase of 480 during the cited period. The number of active cases had been on the decline for the past two-and-a-half months, but has started increasing over the past couple of days.

KABUL, April 20 (Xinhua) -- One civilian sustained injury as a blast struck a vehicle in Police District 2 of Afghanistan's Kabul city on Wednesday, police spokesman Khalid Zadran said.

A sticky bomb targeted a civilian vehicle in Qwai Markaz area injuring a civilian on Wednesday, Zadran said without providing more details.

In the meantime, an eyewitness on condition of anonymity claimed that two security personnel of the administration were injured in the blast.

This is the second security incident in the shape of blast in Kabul over the past two days.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Thousands of people across Sri Lanka took to the streets on Wednesday, a day after police opened fire at demonstrators, killing one person and injuring 13 others, reigniting widespread protests amid the country’s worst economic crisis in decades.

Protesters used vehicles to block key roads in many parts of the country as they demonstrated against the shooting as well as rising fuel prices and the government’s failure to resolve the deepening economic problems. The shooting was the first by Sri Lankan security forces during weeks of protests.

Lucknow, Apr 20 (PTI) The Uttar Pradesh government is mulling over setting up "cow sanctuaries" in 30 districts and adding to its existing capacity to keep abandoned cattle, a senior official said on Wednesday.

The move aims at tackling the stray cattle menace, which had snowballed into a major issue in the recently held Assembly polls.

Mumbai, Apr 19 (PTI) Equity indices tripped in the last half-an-hour of trade on Tuesday to notch up losses for the fifth consecutive session as finance and IT counters continued to bear the brunt of heavy selling amid negative global cues.

Russia ramping up its offensive in Ukraine, coupled with unabated foreign fund outflows, a depreciating rupee and inflationary concerns sapped investor confidence, traders said.

New Delhi, Apr 19 (PTI) The situation in Jahangirpuri of northwest Delhi is heading towards normalcy amid heavy deployment of security personnel in the violence-hit area, police said on Tuesday.

Some of the shops, mainly of grocery, in the streets have opened and the movement of people is becoming normal, they said.

Over 500 police personnel and six companies of additional force have been deployed in the area round the clock.

Gurugram, Apr 19 (PTI) A man was arrested for allegedly raping and blackmailing a woman by using her objectionable pictures and videos here, police said on Tuesday.

The 30-year-old woman, who is married, in her complaint alleged that the accused, Yoginder alias Kala, a resident of Loni border in Ghaziabad, sent her a WhatsApp message around a year ago and they later became friends.

Around one and half months ago, he asked her to place a video call while she was bathing and made a video clip of it, the woman said in her complaint.

New Delhi, Apr 19 (PTI) Against the backdrop of several incidents of clashes between two communities, senior RSS leader Indresh Kumar has given a call for unity and peace, saying India is a land of all major religions and it belongs to everyone.

Addressing an event organised to mark Easter at west Delhi's Rajouri Garden on Monday evening, he said none of the religions or their messengers had ever taught hatred and animosity towards mankind, but it is "the reign of the devil" that makes people fight with each other as it runs parallel to "the reign of god".