Covid cases have continued to spike in Uttar Pradesh and crossed the 400 mark with 69 more people testing positive for the infection in just 24 hours, according to health department data.
Delhi Police have busted a fake call centre in Delhi's Uttam Nagar which scammed more than 1700 people on the pretext of providing them loans and arrested 12 people in this connection, an official said on Wednesday.
With heavy rains lashing parts of Uttar Pradesh, all schools from classes 1 to 12 in Lucknow, Noida, Ghaziabad, Agra and some other districts have been closed on Monday.