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Delhi recorded the highest single-day spike of 2,024 fresh COVID-19 cases on Sunday, taking the tally to over 1.73 lakh, while the death toll mounted to 4,426 with 22 fresh fatalities, authorities said.This is the highest single-day spike in the national capital in the last nearly 50 days, as...
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India and Russia on Sunday were announced as joint winners of the FIDE Chess Olympiad as Nihal Sarin and Divya Deshmukh lost connection to their games in the second round and had to forfeit.In a first, the olympiad was conducted online.Originally, Russia was declared as the winners, but India...
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India's COVID-19 recoveries have sprinted past 27 lakh, taking the recovery rate to 76.61 per cent, while the case fatality rate has further dropped to 1.79 per cent, the health ministry said on Sunday. It also highlighted that active cases of the infection comprise only 21.60 per cent of...
19:59
Several Bollywood producers, actors along with the Multiplex Association of India on Sunday urged the Centre to open the cinema halls, which have remained shut amid the coronavirus pandemic. The country went into lockdown from March 25 to contain the spread of coronavirus pandemic.The...
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Hollywood star Chadwick Boseman was a powerful actor, tremendous talent and role model to generations, said his Marvel Cinematic Universe collaborators Russo Brothers, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, among others. Boseman, who attained global stardom as T'Challa aka superhero Black...
19:29
Bharatiya Janata Party Karnataka state unit president Nalin Kumar Kateel on Sunday said he has tested positive for COVID-19 but was asyomptomatic. I underwent COVID-19 test and the reports have come out as positive. Despite being asymptomatic, on the advice of the doctors, I'm...
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India is all set to launch the bidding process by next month for a Rs 55,000-crore mega project to build six conventional submarines for the Indian Navy to narrow the gap with China's growing naval prowess, government sources said on Sunday. The submarines will be built in India under...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said that the students wanted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address the issue of NEET and JEE exams in his monthly radio programme, but he spoke on toys. His remark came after Prime Minister Modi in his Mann ki Baat address said that the...
18:23
With a record over 10.5 lakh tests conducted in a day for detection of COVID-19, the number of such tests performed in the country has crossed 4.14 crore, the Union health ministry said on Sunday.The exponential jump in the testing capacity and the number of tests has resulted in an upsurge in...
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In a veiled attack on the Shiv Sena-led Maharashtra government over actor Sushant Singh Rajput death case, Union minister Raosaheb Danve on Sunday said some people had opposed the Central Bureua of Investigation probe to protect someone and they are now trying to drag the Bharatiya Janata Part in...
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Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday said stopping Rahul Gandhi from taking over leadership of Congress will lead to extinction of the grand old party.In his weekly column Rokhthok in the Sena mouthpiece Saamana, Raut also said Congress lacks a leader who can stand up to Prime Minister Narendra...
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Maharashtra minister Uday Samant on Sunday said that although the Centre's Unlock guidelines say that schools and colleges will remain shut till September 30, the University Grants Commission wants the final year exams to be conducted by that time.Upholding the UGC decision to conduct final year...
16:54
Acting swiftly after the Galwan valley clash on June 15 in Eastern Ladakh, the Indian Navy sailed out its frontline warship for deployment in the South China Sea much to the displeasure of the Chinese who raised objections over the move during the talks between the two sides.The Chinese have been...
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An intense lockdown was observed on Sunday across Tamil Nadu as part of efforts to fight COVID-19 and only healthcare services and milk supply continued as usual.Effective since last month on all Sundays, the complete lockdown saw closure of fuel pumps, markets and outlets selling essential...
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Asserting that there was no urgency to have an elected Congress president, senior leader Salman Khurshid on Sunday said he can't see the heavens falling for the need of a party chief as Sonia Gandhi was still at the helm and should be the one to decide on the leadership issue.Khurshid, a former...
15:57
The first phase of the Census and the exercise to update the National Population Register, scheduled for this year but deferred due to the coronavirus outbreak, may be delayed by a year as there is no sign of slowdown of the pandemic. The Indian census is one of the largest administrative...
15:18
Former President Pranab Mukherjee continues to be in deep coma but is haemodynamically stable, the hospital treating him said on Sunday. Doctors attending to 84-year-old Mukherjee said he is on ventilator support and is being treated for lung infection.Doctors say a patient is...
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Three more persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of journalist Ratan Singh in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia, a senior police official said on Sunday. Six people were arrested earlier in the case on August 25, police said. A joint team of police, Special Operations...
14:34
Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar's building has been sealed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation as a precautionary measure amid the coronavirus pandemic. The 90-year-old singer resides in Prabhukunj building at Peddar Road in south Mumbai.The Mangeshkar family, in a statement,...
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Reacting sharply to Pakistan hailing the recent Gupkar Declaration in which six political parties of Jammu and Kashmir vowed to fight collectively against the abrogation of Article 370, National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Sunday asserted that we are not anyone's...
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The Chinese army has launched two sets of military drills in waters off the country's east coast as tensions continue to rise in the South China Sea amid United States military presence in the region.Shanghai-based military expert Ni Lexiong was quoted as saying by South China Morning Post that...
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A junior commissioned officer of the army was killed on Sunday in a firing incident along the Line of Control in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, defence sources said. The firing from across the border started soon after the Army noticed some suspicious movement along the LoC in...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation called actress Rhea Chakraborty for the third consecutive day on Sunday for questioning in the case of death of her boyfriend and filmstar Sushant Singh Rajput, a police official said.The 28-year-old actress is accused of abetting Rajput's suicide.Her brother...
11:29
Pushing India to become a global hub of making toys, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the National Education Policy 2020 focuses on toys too.Adddrssing the nation in his monthly radio programme, 'Mann ki Baat', the PM said, I thought about children during COVID-19 lockdown and discussed...
11:03
The Yamuna was flowing close to the warning mark in Delhi on Sunday morning, but the water level is receding gradually, officials said.The water level was recorded at 203.98 metres at the Old Railway Bridge at 9 am. It was 204.14 metres at 7 pm on Saturday and 204.41 metres at 5 pm on Friday, an...
09:58
India's COVID-19 case tally crosses 35 lakh mark with a spike of 78,761 new cases and 948 deaths in the last 24 hours.COVID-19 case tally in the country stands at 35,42,734 including 7,65,302 active cases, 27,13,934 cured/discharged/migrated and 63,498 deaths, says the Ministry of Health and...
09:17
Three terrorists and an assistant sub-inspector of Jammu and Kashmir Police were killed in a gunfight on the outskirts of Srinagar on Sunday, police said. Terrorists fired on a joint 'naka' of police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) at Pantha Chowk area late on Saturday night, a police...
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The Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra has submitted the layout of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, and other documents related to it, to Ayodhya Development Authority (ADA) for approval.Dr Anil Mishra, member of the Trust on Saturday handed over the documents to Neeraj Shukla, vice chairman and...
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