COVID-19 lockdown: Cop's hand cut-off in attack by 'Nihangs' in Patiala
News | April 12, 2020 20:17 ISTPunjab Police ASI Harjeet Singh's hand was cut-off in an attack by a group of 'Nihangs' at Sabzi Mandi, in Patiala today.
Punjab Police ASI Harjeet Singh's hand was cut-off in an attack by a group of 'Nihangs' at Sabzi Mandi, in Patiala today.
Chandigarh reported first death due to the COVID-19 virus on Tuesday whereas Punjab coronavirus death toll reaches 4 with this fatality.
Citizens in Chandigarh have been asked to stay indoors after a leopard was been spotted in Chandigarh's upscale Sector 5 residential area on Monday, following which police made announcements in the area asking people to remain in their homes.
A 48-year-old policeman, who was on duty to implement the curfew to prevent spread of coronavirus, died of a heart attack in Patiala district on Saturday, official said.
In an "unusual" trend on coronavirus affliction, a 22-year-old Dubai-returned Chandigarh resident developed symptoms for coronavirus infection and tested positive for it a day after the expiry of the 14-day incubation period of the virus during which he had stayed in home quarantine.
In view of deadly COVID-19, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on March 23 announced the lockdown in state with immediate effect. He informed that the essentials services will remain go on.
Chandigarh has announced curfew throughout the union territory, amid the coronavirus outbreak in India. The imposition of curfew will be effective from Monday midnight till further orders. However, people engaged in essential services will be issued curfew passes.
One more person tested positive for coronavirus in UT Chandigarh, taking the total number of confirmed cases of the deadly infection to six in the city, officials said.
The Punjab government on Thursday ordered the ban on the public transport system from March 21, as the number of positive cases affected by coronavirus across the country rose to 166
Meanwhile, the number of global coronavirus infections shot past 2,00,000 on Wednesday, as governments across Europe, North America and Asia rolled out tough measures to put the brakes on the ferocious spread of the deadly pandemic.
The Chandigarh administration on Monday decided to impose a ban on gatherings of more than 100 people to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Three women were killed on Saturday after a fire broke out at a paying guest accommodation in Chandigarh
Commenting on the incident, a police officer said the man, an electrician by profession, found his 2.5-year-old son after he opened the bed box. He contacted the police accusing her wife of murdering the child and having eloped with her lover.
A mother allegedly murdered her two-and-a-half-year-old son by choking his mouth with cloth before dumping him in a bed box, the police said here on Monday. This horrid case came to light in a house in Chandigarh's Burail area.
A major fire broke out in Chandigarh's Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in the wee hours on Monday. Fire- fighters were rushed to the spot.
The triple murder was reported from Manimajra in Chandigarh, where a family was attacked by unidentified assailants at nearly 1:30 am. The deceased included a woman and her two children, who were identified as Sarita Arora, her children Arjun (15) and Sanchi (20).
A man, accused of stealing rifles and ammunition from an army institute in Madhya Pradesh, tricked police guards by making an excuse of going to the washroom and escaped from a Punjab hospital by scaling its wall early on Tuesday, officials said. Harpreet Singh (25), a "military deserter", was undergoing treatment at the Hoshiarpur civil hospital for a hand injury since December 31.
In a shocking incident, a speeding SUV car flung in the air while crossing a speed breaker after its 25-year-old driver suffered a seizure in Chandigarh on Saturday.
Narnaul in Haryana and Gurdaspur in Punjab were the coldest with a low of 3.5 degrees and 5.2 degrees Celsius, respectively. The holy city of Amritsar and the industrial city Ludhiana recorded the minimum temperature at 7.4 degrees and 9.9 degrees Celsius, respectively.
A 17-year-old Pakistani boy, who has been languishing in a juvenile home in Punjab's Hoshiarpur town for inadvertently crossing the international border in 2018, will now reunite with his family after two years on January 14, officials said on Saturday.
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