India Breaking News LIVE Updates, August 20:
7:35 PM| Punjab has ordered a daily night curfew – from 7 PM to 5 AM, starting Friday – and a weekend lockdown in all 167 cities and towns in the state, as part of a strict response to the worrying surge in Covid cases.
6:45 PM| Micro-blogging platform, Twitter suffers outage. Users are unable to play videos. Early this morning, Gmail suffered massive outage worldwide with some users complaining that they can’t send any attachments or documents while a few others reported that they have not been able to log in at all.
4:30 PM| Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid rich tribute to former India skipper MS Dhoni as he hanged his boots from international cricket, calling him not just a sportsperson but a phenomenon, which was much appreciated by MSD.
4:11 PM| After a period of five months, the Delhi government has allowed hotels and restaurants to serve liquor in the national capital. This permission has been granted only to units who hold a valid licence to serve liquor.
1:34 PM| The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to hear lawyer Prashant Bhushan petition to defer the hearing on his sentence. The apex court said that it will not hear the petition till Bhushan’s review petition against conviction for criminal contempt is filed and decided.
1:30 PM| Swachh Survekshan 2020: Indore once again retained the top spot as the cleanest city of India. Gujarat’s Surat on second spot and Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai on third.
12:31 PM| #Gmail is trending on Twitter today with several users complaining the outage of Gmail services.
12:18 PM| SC bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra to hear Prashant Bhushan on sentence for the offence of criminal content by scandalizing the court. On Aug 14, the SC had held him guilty for contempt of court over two tweets against CJI & SC.
Prashant Bhushan Contempt : SC bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra to hear Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1 on sentence for the offence of criminal content by scandalizing the court. On Aug 14, the SC had held him guilty for contempt of court over two tweets against CJI & SC. pic.twitter.com/UFwThBzgYZ
— Live Law (@LiveLawIndia) August 20, 2020
12:09 PM| A 41-year-old painter, Ram Indranil Kamath, has been found dead at his home in Matunga, Mumbai. The area police said that his body was recovered from a bath tub. The Police have registered an accidental death case.
An IIT Kharagpur student staying in its campus on Wednesday tested positive for COVID-19, following which the institute decided to seal all the hostels, an official said.
The institute had in June asked all students, who got stranded because of lockdown, to leave the campus by June 30 and return two months later for the next semester, but a few of them remained there.
An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 was reported near Port Blair in Andaman and Nicobar islands on Thursday morning, according to India’s National Center for Seismology.
The epicenter of the earthquake was 222 km south (S) of Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, the agency said. The earthquake struck at 2:23 AM IST at a depth of 10 km from the surface.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today paid tributes to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 76th birth anniversary.
“On his birth anniversary, tributes to former prime minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi Ji,” PM Modi tweeted.
The India Meteorological Department has warned of heavy rainfall in Delhi on Thursday as well, and has cautioned against “major traffic disruption” and “increased chance” of road accidents due to heavy waterlogging.
On Wednesday, heavy downpour wreaked havoc in the national capital and its satellite cities of Gurgaon and Noida, leading to the inundation of rainwater on roads and underpasses as well as traffic build-up in many areas.
India has reported 69,652 cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours with 977 deaths, the Union Health Ministry said today. The total number of cases in the country has now surged to 28,36,925 with 53,866 deaths. A total of 20,96,664 COVID-19 patients have recovered from the infection, taking the recovery rate to 73.90 percent, the ministry informed.
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