Former CBI director Ranjit Sinha dies after testing Covid positive
Former CBI director Ranjit Sinha dies after testing Covid positive
Former CBI director Ranjit Sinha passed away on Friday morning in Delhi. He was 68.
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Former CBI director Ranjit Sinha
Former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director Ranjit Sinha passed away on Friday morning in Delhi. He was 68.
He had tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday night, PTI reported.
Sinha, an 1974-batch IPS officer of the Bihar cadre, was the CBI director between 2012 and 2014.
He had also headed the Railway Protection Force and served at senior positions in the Central Bureau of Investigation in Patna and Delhi before his appointment as CBI chief.
[Sabrina Yeasmin/BenarNews]
Seriously ill COVID-19 patients in Bangladesh are being turned away from hospitals due to an acute shortage of Intensive Care Unit beds amid spiraling infections, a local health expert told BenarNews on Monday, blaming the government for not acting rapidly in installing these facilities.
A government official, meanwhile, acknowledged to BenarNews that the administration had been unprepared for the 18-fold increase in new cases in the past two months.
To control the worsening pandemic, Bangladesh on Monday ordered the shutdown of all offices, banks, and domestic and international transport for eight days starting Wednesday, authorities said.
“There is a huge shortage of ICU beds as our health service did not give the necessary attention to the matter. As a result, most districts are still out of ICU coverage,” virologist Dr. Nazrul Islam, who is a member of a national committee on COVID-19, told BenarNews.
Heartless mother kills 3-year-old daughter for supporting father
coastaldigest.com news network
April 8, 2021
Bengaluru, Apr 8: A heartless mother strangled her 3-year-old girl child to death after she supported her father in an argument. The incident took place at an under-construction building in BDA Layout, near Nagarbhavi on Tuesday night.
The accused, identified as Sudha, allegedly had an argument with her husband over what to watch on the television. During the argument, the child supported her father and the same angered the woman.
On Tuesday, Eeranna returned home from lunch around 2 pm and their daughter was watching TV. The man took the remote and changed the channel to watch the news. Sudha raised an objection to the same and told her husband that he should not come home if he only wanted to watch the news.
55 pc polling till 3 p.m. in Kerala; over 58pc in Kasaragod dist
News Network
April 6, 2021
Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 6: An estimated 55 per cent of more than 2.74 crore electorate have exercised their franchise in the single phase Assembly election for 140 seats in Kerala till 1500 hrs on Tuesday.
Kozhikode district recorded the highest voter turnout at 61.1 percent while Thiruvananthapuram recorded the lowest turnout at 49.3 per cent.
The polling percentage in Ernakulam district is 55, Kollam 52.1, Thrissur 55.7, Pathanamthitta 51.5, Alappuzha 53.7, Kottayam 53.5, Palakkad 57.5, Kannur 60, Malappuram 54.5, Idukki 54.7, Wayanad 57.8 and Kasaragod 58.2.
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD
Starting from the days of my early childhood, till as late as the late seventies, we had this tradition of listening to our collection of records, first on our hand wound gramophone and later on the much newer electric record players that we acquired as time went by. Whenever we had visitors at home, it was always my self-acquired job to carefully remove the records from their paper sleeves and play them one by one to the delight of our guests and these happy sessions would go on late into the nights because our collection of records was very large.