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The National Conference, PDP, Congress and the Communist Party of India-Marxist on Saturday said they will take a call on attending a meeting with the prime minister in Delhi after deliberations within their respective parties. Fourteen leaders from Jammu and Kashmir have been invited...
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In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the Gujarat government on Saturday transferred 77 Indian Administrative Service officers including a principal secretary and several district collectors. A notification issued by the General Administration Department...
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The Centre on Saturday asked state governments to register cases and invoke the stringent Epidemic Diseases (Amendment) Act, 2020 against those who indulge in assault on doctors and healthcare professionals. Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla's letter to States and Union Territories...
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The national capital recorded seven deaths due to COVID-19, the lowest since April 1, and 135 fresh cases of coronavirus infection on Saturday, as the positivity rate dipped to 0.18 per cent, according to data shared by the health department in New Delhi. These new fatalities have pushed...
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Former Union minister Jitin Prasada, who recently switched from the Congress to the Bharatiya Janata Party, on Saturday met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow and said they discussed issues related to strengthening the organisation. I met the chief minister and...
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Senior PDP leader Sartaj Madni was released after six months of detention on Saturday, hours after his niece and party president Mehbooba Mufti received an invitation from the Centre for talks with Jammu and Kashmir's regional political parties. Officials said Madni, who was under...
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The Uttar Pradesh unit of Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday appointed its state MLC A K Sharma, a former IAS officer, as its state vice president. The announcement of the new appointment was made by the BJP state unit's president Swatantra Dev Singh. ...
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Iconic sprinter Milkha Singh was on Saturday cremated with full state honours in Chandigarh, marking the end of an era in which his pioneering accomplishments on the track galvanised a newly-independent India. Milkha, who was 91, was bid a tearful adieu in the presence of his family members...
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A weekly view of the market from Monday, June 14 to Friday, June 18.
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A day after four-time Congress MLA Rupjyoti Kurmi announced his plans to join the Bharatiya Janata Party, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday appealed to all opposition legislators to join the ruling party.Sarma was replying to a question on Kurmi, the Congress' lone legislator...
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The Government Railway Police in Satna of Madhya Pradesh has apprehended one of the accused involved in allegedly duping a housing society in Mumbai by organising a COVID-19 vaccination camp fraudulently in the name of a private hospital, an official said on Saturday. ...
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Filmmaker Ayesha Sulthana, who was booked for sedition in Lakshadweep, on Saturday said she has not done anything against the country so far and would continue her fight till the islanders get justice. She was talking to the media at the airport in Kochi before leaving to the...
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A Samajwadi Party worker was arrested on Saturday for allegedly instigating an elderly Muslim man to claim in a video that he was beaten up by four youths who also chopped his beard and asked him to chant 'Jai Shri Ram' in Loni area of Ghaziabad. ...
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If Covid-appropriate behaviour is not followed and crowding not prevented, the next wave of the viral infection can strike the country in the next six to eight weeks, AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria warned on Saturday. Until a sizeable number of the population are vaccinated,...
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With the Chinese Navy getting new port projects in Sri Lanka, a top Indian Navy officer said that it 'could pose a threat' to Indian interests in the region and there is a need to keep a close watch on such activities.In an interview with ANI, Navy Vice Chief Vice Admiral G Ashok Kumar said the...
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Congress workers distribute free ration
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday turned 51 with party leaders and workers wishing him on his birthday, which he has decided not to celebrate in view of the Covid pandemic. Rahul Gandhi was born to Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi on June 19, 1970, in Delhi.The Delhi Congress has...
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Karnataka and Maharashtra on Saturday decided to have better coordination and communication regarding flood management and water supply in the drought-hit regions of both the states. Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and state Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai held a high level...
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A Delhi court on Saturday took cognisance of the supplementary charge sheet filed against actor-activist Deep Sidhu and others in the Republic Day violence case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Gajendra Singh Nagar has summoned all the accused through video conferencing on June...
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The minority affairs ministry will run a campaign from June 21 for creating awareness about vaccination against Covid in rural areas and to dispel apprehensions being spread by some vested interests over the inoculation drive in the country, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on...
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Indian Air Force Chief RKS Bhadauria on Saturday said the induction of 36 Rafale aircraft into the Indian Air Force would take place by 2022. The IAF is absolutely on target with respect to the Rafale induction plan, he said while responding to a reporters' query on...
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More than 2.87 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with states and union territories, and over 52.26 lakh doses will be received by them in the next three days, the Union health ministry said on Saturday. It said that 28,50,99,130 vaccine doses have been provided to...
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The easing of Covid-related lockdown norms has led to crowding in some markets and other places, the Centre said on Saturday, as it urged states to ensure the extremely important five-fold strategy of Covid-appropriate behaviour, test-track-treat and vaccination to prevent the spread of the...
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It will go away, sprint legend Milkha Singh had told PTI when he first got to know that he had contracted COVID-19, fully confident that his healthy lifestyle and regimented exercise routine would be enough to beat the dreaded virus. The 91-year-old, who died at Chandigarh's PGIMER hospital...
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West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar meets Union Home Minister Amit Shah at his official residence in Delhi on Saturday at 11 am.Governor WB Jagdeep Dhankhar will call on the Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah at his official residence at 11 am today before returning to Kolkata in the afternoon,...
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Genome sequencing of the samples of four COVID-19 infected lions at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at Vandalur, near Chennai, has revealed that they belong to Pangolin lineage B.1.617.2 and are Delta variants as per World Health Organisation nomenclature, the park said on Friday.On May 11, this...
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Milkha Singh, one of independent India's biggest sporting icons, who died of COVID-19 complications, will be cremated here on Saturday evening. The cremation will take place at 5 pm today (Saturday), a spokesperson for the family, said.The 91-year-old Milkha Singh died on Friday night after a...
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India reports 60,753 new COVID-19 cases, 97,743 discharges and 1,647 deaths in last 24 hours, as per health ministry.Active cases are the lowest after 74 days, while recovery rate increases to 96.16 per cent, the Union health ministry said.Total cases: 2,98,23,546Total discharges:...
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The Supreme Court on Friday posted the hearing of a plea of self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, seeking temporary suspension of sentence to pursue medical treatment at an Ayurveda Centre in Uttarakhand, till the reopening of the court after the summer vacation.A Bench of the apex court, headed by...
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Photograph: Rameshwar Gaur/ANI Photo
The Uttarakhand Police has set up a special investigation team to probe allegations that fake Covid tests were conducted during the Haridwar Kumbh Mela.One of the world's largest religious gatherings, the Kumbh was held in the state from April 1 to 30, and the notified area for the congregation...
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The Palestinian government on Friday announced cancellation of a deal with Israel relating to the supply of around one million doses of Pfizer (COVID-19) vaccine.The cancellation came after the government found the doses fall short of meeting the technical criteria.''After the technical teams of...
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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday said he believes the monsoon session of the Parliament will be held and all preparations have been made for it.Speaking to ANI, Om Birla said, Secretariat employees have been vaccinated and 445 members have got themselves inoculated separately. The remaining...
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