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The case of a COVID-19 patient going missing a few days ago in Thane city was solved late Tuesday evening after it was it found that his body was handed over by the hospital to the wrong family.The kin of the 72-year-old man had filed a missing persons case in Kapurbawdi police station late...
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Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar said on Tuesday that he met Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to discuss issues of the state, and there was no bickering within the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA).Pawar was speaking to reporters after a meeting with a traders' association in...
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The coronavirus tally in Mumbai rose to 86,132 on Tuesday with the addition of 806 new cases -- lowest singe-day figure in nearly two months -- while the death of 64 patients took the toll near the 5,000-mark, the city civic body said.With 806 new infections and 64 deaths, the tally of COVID-19...
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Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for coronavirus.The 65-year-old has repeatedly undermined the pandemic and have flouted social distancing.Brazil is the second worst-hit country after the United States with 1.63 million cases.The country has reported over 65,556 deaths. ...
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Police on Tuesday night arrested the CEO and two directors besides eight other officials of LG Polymers in connection with the styrene vapour leak incident in which 12 people were killed and 585 fell sick on May 7.Visakhapatnam city Commissioner of Police R K Meena gave this information to PTI...
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A Nepalese lawmaker was sacked by her party on Tuesday for defying its decision to unanimously endorse the constitutional amendment to revise the country's map to include three strategically key Indian territories, according to media reports.The Opposition Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) decided to...
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'The BMC is all set to increase the number of COVID tests being conducted in the city per day. And to serve this purpose, BMC has decided that now no prescription will be required to get a coronavirus test. BMC on July 7 said that now based on the symptoms, people can approach labs and ask...
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Dharavi, known as Asia's largest slum, reported only one new coronavirus patient on Tuesday which took the case tally in the densely populated area in the heart of Mumbai to 2,335, an official stated.The last time Dharavi had recorded a single new coronavirus case was on April 5, three months...
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The West Bengal government on Tuesday decided to expand the areas under lockdown and impose tougher restrictions from July 9 to stem the relentless spike in COVID-19 cases, a senior official said.The containment zones and buffer zones around them will be clubbed together and constitute a...
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The Central Board of Secondary Education has rationalised the syllabus for classes 9 to 12 for the academic year 2020-21 by up to 30 per cent to make up for academic loss caused due to COVID-19, Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' announced on Tuesday. Looking at the extraordinary...
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The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court on Tuesday granted furlough of 28 days to gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli who is serving a life sentence in the Central Jail here for the 2007 murder of a corporator.A division bench of Justices ZA Haq and NB Suryawanshi allowed Gawli's writ petition...
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Demand for work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Act or MGNREGA has more than doubled in this fiscal, so far, due to the COVID-19 lockdown and about 42 per cent of the total allocation of Rs 1.01 lakh crore for the employment scheme has already been distributed among states,...
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Never the one to walk the beaten path, former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has decided not to do any commercial endorsements amid the COVID-19 pandemic and is instead busy with organic farming, gearing up to launch his own brand of environment-friendly fertilisers soon. The World...
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The Enforcement Directorate has filed a money laundering case against the GVK group, the Mumbai International Airport Limited and others to probe alleged irregularities to the tune of Rs 705 crore in the operations of the Mumbai airport, officials said on Tuesday.The central probe agency has...
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The construction of a road on no man's land along the India-Nepal border here has been halted, Pilibhit District Magistrate Vaibhav Srivastava said on Tuesday. After talks between officials of both the countries, the construction work near pillar number 38 (near Tatarpur...
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India's total number of coronavirus cases and fatalities per million population is one of the lowest in the world, the Union health ministry said on Tuesday even as the country's infection tally went past the 7 lakh-mark and the death toll rose to 20,160. Referring to the 'WHO Situation...
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Concerned over the increase in coronavirus cases, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said that the amount of penalty may be increased for not wearing a mask in public places.He also directed the health department to issue necessary guidelines in this matter.Chief Minister Mr Yogi...
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Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday slammed the Uttar Pradesh government saying that for the past three years the state has topped the list in terms of murder incidents in the country.If we look at the data of murders in the country, then Uttar Pradesh is in top of the...
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday said it has made the seventh arrest in the Pulwama attack case, in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed in an IED blast on February 14, 2019. NIA arrested the seventh accused named, Bilal Ahmed Kuchey, whom the agency has termed as a terror...
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Read our interview with the family of Captain Vikram Batra, the soldier who fought valiantly and sacrificed his life during the Kargil War in 1999. It was due to his efforts that the Indian flag was unfurled on Tiger Hill on July 4, 1999 morning and India's Operation Vijay was successful. He...
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A close relative of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who had been staying at his official residence in Patna, has tested positive for COVID-19, highly placed sources said on Tuesday. They said test reports of the relative, niece of the chief minister, came out on Monday after which she was...
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Indian Army Sources: The disengagement process between the Indian and the Chinese Army had started at Hot Springs and Gogra yesterday and is expected to be completed at both locations in few days. The Chinese Army had started dismantling its structures since yesterday. Under the mutual...
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Days after former Congress President Rahul Gandhi alleged that the Centre is procuring substandard ventilators from a private firm amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Professor Diwakar Vaish, the owner of AgVa company, said that international vendor manufacturers do not want Indian ventilators to be...
15:54
The Karnataka government on Tuesday told a central team that community spread of COVID-19 was not happening in the state. Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa today held discussions with the team consisting of Arti Ahuja Additional Secretary- Health and Family Welfare and P Raveendran, Director-...
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Face masks and hand sanitisers are no more essential products as their supply is sufficient in the country and, therefore, are now kept out of the purview of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, Consumer Affairs Secretary Leena Nandan said on Tuesday. On March 13, the Union consumer affairs...
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Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday said that the Centre will issue Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to speed up the resumption of film production, which got stalled due to COVID-19 pandemic.In view of the epidemic, the government will release the Standard...
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An eight-month-old baby who travelled around 400 km from Arunachal Pradesh to Meghalaya via Assam for treatment died within hours of testing positive for coronavirus, officials said on Tuesday. The baby boy was referred to the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and...
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Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, one of the UK's most prominent scientists and President of the Royal Society, on Tuesday warned that the country is lagging behind others in the mandatory use of face masks to prevent the rapid spread of coronavirus. Professor Venki, as the...
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Diesel price in the national capital on Tuesday touched an all-time high following a rate hike after a week-long hiatus. Diesel price on Tuesday was increased by 25 paise per litre, according to a price notification of state-owned oil marketing companies. This took the retail selling...
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The Supreme Court Tuesday extended till July 15 the protection granted to senior journalist Vinod Dua from any coercive action in a sedition case filed against him by a local BJP leader in Himachal Pradesh over his YouTube show. A bench headed by Justice U U Lalit, in a hearing conducted...
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A former CEO of a cooperative bank, which was being probed for alleged financial fraud, was found dead in his car in Bengaluru, police said on Tuesday. Police suspect that Vasudeva Maiya may have committed suicide by consuming poison but they hastened to add that the exact cause death would...
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The Centre has issued a notification on CBI taking over investigation into the deaths of a father and son duo belonging to Tuticorin district, the Tamil Nadu government said on Tuesday. Following Chief Minister K Palaniswami's letter to Home Minister Amit Shah requesting a probe...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made India proud as China has agreed to disengage at the Line of Actual Control, said NV Subhash BJP's Telangana spokesperson on Tuesday.Nation conveys its gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making India proud as China agreed to complete disengagement...
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On July 6, an open letter written by 239 global scientists to the World Health Organisation startled the world. It stated that 'there is a real risk that the coronavirus can be airborne, meaning it can spread through microscopic particles that linger in the air.'The claim in the letter...
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A day after director-producer Sanjay Leela Bhansali recorded his statement at Bandra Police Station in connection with Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide case, Abhishek Trimukhe, DCP (Zone IX), Mumbai Police said that Bhansali was planning to take the actor in four of his films.Sanjay Leela Bhansali...
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BJP Rajya Sabha MP Shiv Pratap Shukla has slammed the Congress for seeking an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his previous statement on China.I think Congress should apologise to the country for accusing PM Modi so many times, who is deeply associated with the public, Shukla said...
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A section of workers at Bajaj Auto's Waluj manufacturing plant are seeking temporary suspension of operations after 400 employees at the facility have tested positive for COVID-19, as per a union leader. We are demanding that due to increased number of COVID-19 cases, work should be...
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Naxals have abducted parents of a policeman in Chhattisgarhs insurgency-hit Dantewada district, police said on Tuesday. A group of ultras barged into the house of District Reserve Guard constable Ajay Telam in Gumiyapal village on Monday night and abducted his father Lachhu Telam (64) and...
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More than 15 lakh people have been quarantined in Mumbai after contact-tracing so far since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city civic body said. Out of these, 5.34 lakh people were identified as high-risk contacts, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said. So far, 13.28 lakh...
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This inspirational tweet by Chef Vikas Khanna, the man who has organised 9 million meals amid India's lockdown. The city of my rebirth - KASHI I had posted this image to find boatsman who helped me recover after my Dad passed away. Our Twitter family found him (Bachau Sahani) and we...
12:20
Supreme Court referring to media reports that more than 50 children in a shelter home in Kanpur are found COVID-19 infected, directed Uttar Pradesh government to file a status report in the issue. Supreme Court hearing the suo moto case relating to the protection of children from COVID-19 in...
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Update: Amid tensions with China, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is carrying out night time combat air patrols over the Eastern Ladakh sector.Team ANI reached a forward airbase near China border from where the Indian Air Force is carrying out intensive night operations involving its fighter aircraft...
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A day after National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval held talks with Chinese State Councillor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi asked why China allowed to justify the murder of 20 unarmed jawans in our territory.National interest is paramount. GOI's duty is...
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Global pharmaceutical major Mylan has got approval for its remdesivir from the Drug Controller General of India and will launch a generic version of Gilead Sciences' COVID-19 anti-viral in the country at Rs 4,800 for 100 mg/vial.The drug will be launched under the brand name Desrem in India and...
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The Shiv Sena on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had expressed confidence that the battle against COVID-19 would be won in 21 days, but it has been over 100 days and the crisis still persists. The fight against COVID-19 is more difficult than the mythological war of Mahabharata, an...
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IT services major Infosys has brought back over 200 of its employees and their families, who were stranded in the US amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown, according to a senior company executive. The company brought these people back from San Francisco via a special chartered flight...
11:08
Indian Air Force Apache attack helicopters pictured at a forward airbase near India-China border after it carried out night operations. Group Captain A Rathi, senior fighter pilot at a Forward Air Base near India-China border told ANI, Night operations have an inherent element of surprise....
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A doctor at a Goa hospital for COVID-19 treatment has been giving a warm send-off to recovered patients by hugging them to send across a message to the society to accept these people and not ostracise them. Dr Edwin Gomes, the Goa Medical Colleges medicine department head who led a team of...
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Ten police constables have been transferred from police line to Chaubepur police station, according to an official order. Inspector-General of Police Kanpur Mohit Agarwal has informed that all personnel of the Chaubepur police station are under the scope of investigation in connection with Kanpur...
10:13
Spain's large-scale study on the coronavirus indicates just 5% of its population has developed antibodies, strengthening evidence that a so-called herd immunity to Covid-19 is unachievable, the medical journal the Lancet reported on Monday. Read the report here
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A 94-year-old woman patient, who was undergoing treatment for coronavirus, was discharged from state-run Gandhi Hospital on Monday after she recovered from the disease.The woman, P Vijayalaxmi, who is from Hyderabad's Chikkadpalli area said: The condition of the hospital is good. Doctors and...
09:56
India's COVID-19 case tally crosses 7 lakh mark with 22,252 new cases and 467 deaths in the last 24 hours. Total positive cases stand at 7,19,665 including 2,59,557 active cases, 4,39,948 cured/discharged/migrated and 20,160 deaths: Ministry of Health. The total number of samples tested up...
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On the request of the West Bengal government, the frequency of two special trains have been reduced to weekly, Eastern Railway said. Frequency of Howrah-New Delhi-Howrah Special (via Patna) and Howrah-New Delhi-Howrah Special (via Dhanbad) have been reduced to weekly. According to the Union...
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As many as 872 employees of the Central Railway and Western Railway, their family members and retired personnel have so far tested positive for coronavirus and 86 of them have died, officials said. All of them were admitted to the Western Railways Jagjivan Ram Hospital in Mumbai which was in...
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Three security force personnel were injured in an encounter with militants in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, police said. A police official said that a militant was believed to have been killed during the encounter as he was shot at when he tried to jump from a house....
09:11
The overall number of global Covid-19 cases increases to more than 1.15 crore, while deaths soar to over 5,37,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. The total number of cases stand at 1,15,90,195, while the fatalities rise to 5,37,429, reveals the latest update. The US accounts...
09:10
Foreign students will not be allowed to stay in the United States this autumn if their universities have moved classes fully online, unless they switch to a course with in-person tuition.The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said people could face deportation if they do not comply...
08:01
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was tested for COVID-19 after having an X-ray of his lungs. He didn't say whether he was showing symptoms of the new coronavirus. Brazil's presidency said in a statement that the result of the test will be known on Tuesday. Earlier Bolsonaro, who has...
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China has caused great damage to the United States and the rest of the world, President Donald Trump said on Monday.Over the last few months, Trump has been holding China responsible for the spread of deadly coronavirus across the world.The coronavirus has so far claimed the lives of 533,000...
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The Congress on Monday greeted the Dalai Lama on his 85th birthday and took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he may have had 'compulsions for not doing so'.'We waited for Hon'ble @PMOIndia to lead the nation in wishing HE the Dalai Lama a very Happy Birthday. Modi ji may have had...
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