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26 Jun

India Crosses 5 Lakh COVID Cases

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New Delhi: India's total of coronavirus cases crossed the five lakh-mark on Friday after the country reported its highest single-day spike of over 17,000. Maharashtra, the worst-hit state, with over 5,000 new cases, reached an aggregate of 1,52,765, while West Bengal and Tamil Nadu also reported their biggest single day COVID-19 numbers. The death count climbed to 15,301 with 407 new fatalities. This was the seventh day in a row that India registered over 14,000 cases. India is only behind US, Brazil and Russia.

26 Jun

Delhi Discusses Cutting 50% Syllabus

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New Delhi: Schools in Delhi will remain closed till July 31, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said after a meeting with education department officials today. One of the key proposals discussed today was to cut syllabus up to 50 per cent, the Delhi government said in a statement. The officials agreed that online classes and activities with the help of parents should continue in the meantime. "Let's design a plan to reopen schools in a way that would prepare our students to adjust to the new circumstances and not fear them. It would help our students to learn to live with…

26 Jun

2-Week Lockdown In Guwahati From Monday

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Guwahati: Assam today announced a "total lockdown" in Guwahati from Monday for the next two weeks after a sharp surge in new coronavirus patients was recorded in the last ten days. Next week, only pharmacies and hospitals will be allowed to open in the city, Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said this afternoon as he stressed: "Please finish your shopping by Sunday." "A total lockdown will be observed in Kamrup (Metro) district for two weeks from Sunday midnight. For the first seven days, only pharmacies and hospitals will be open. Everything else will be shut," the 51-year-old minister said during…

26 Jun

Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain Recovers From COVID

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New Delhi: Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, who was undergoing treatment for COVID-19 in a private hospital, has been cured of the deadly infection and will be discharged today. The AAP leader was given plasma therapy last week after he developed pneumonia and had breathing trouble. Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain tests negative for COVID-19, to be discharged from hospital today. Mr Jain had tested positive for the highly contagious infection on June 17, days after he was admitted to Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital (RGSSH) in the national capital after running high-grade fever and suffering sudden drop in oxygen levels. He…

26 Jun

UP firms making bullet proof jackets ditch China, say ‘no trust’

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The companies based in Kanpur have turned towards European and American firms to procure raw materials to build body armour and jackets which save lives of soldiers. Earlier this week, Niti Aayog member V K Saraswat had said that Indian companies manufacturing bullet proof jackets should avoid importing raw materials from China because of “inconsistencies in the quality” of the shipments. “Many times raw materials imported from China (to produce bullet proof jackets) are not of good quality... We should avoid importing from Chinese sources because of inconsistencies of the raw material quality,” Saraswat told. Saraswat, also a former Defence…

26 Jun

Railways Cancels All Tickets For Regular Trains From July 1 To August 12

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New Delhi: The Indian Railways on Thursday said it would refund all tickets booked for regular trains between July 1 and August 12 as coronavirus cases in the country surged a month after the government started relaxing some of the restrictions imposed in March. Only special trains announced in May and June will run, the railways said. Rail services, apart from the movement of some essential cargo, were abruptly halted in late March ahead of efforts to contain the virus that froze almost all economic activity, putting crores out of work overnight. Earlier this month, the railways had increased the number…

26 Jun

Imran Khan under fire for hailing 9/11 mastermind as martyr

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Pakistani opposition parties criticized Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday after he told parliament that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been "martyred" in 2011 by U.S. forces. Osama Bin Laden, who masterminded the 9/11 attacks on the United States, was killed in a raid on his hideout in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad after eluding detection for nearly 10 years. Pakistan was not aware of the operation, which involved U.S. helicopters flying deep into the country from Afghanistan. Opposition leader Khawaja Asif, the foreign minister in the last government, was among those who objected to the remark. He…

26 Jun

UK PM Boris Johnson Says China-India Standoff “Very Serious, Worrying”

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London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called on India and China to engage in dialogue to sort out their border issues as he described the escalation in eastern Ladakh as "a very serious and worrying situation" which the UK is closely monitoring. The first official statement of Mr Johnson came during his weekly Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons on Wednesday. Responding to Conservative Party MP Flick Drummond on the implications for British interests of a dispute between a "Commonwealth member and the world's largest democracy on the one side, and a state that challenges our notion…

26 Jun

Complete Disregard Of All Mutually Agreed Norms By Chinese Forces

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New Delhi: China's repeated incursions into Indian territory this year has been in "complete disregard of all "mutually agreed norms", the foreign ministry said today in a strongly worded statement that shredded Chinese claims that India is to be blamed for last week's violence at Galwan Valley in which 20 soldiers died. In its hardest statement ever since the Ladakh standoff began, the Ministry of External Affairs today said, "Since early May, the Chinese side has been amassing a large contingent of troops and armaments along the LAC". Army sources tell that there has been no disengagement on the ground since…

25 Jun

16-Year-Old Delhi Girl, TikTok Star, Found Dead

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New Delhi: A 16-year-old girl who had a large number of followers on social media platforms Instagram and TikTok was found dead at her home in Delhi, the police said on Thursday. The police have confirmed suicide. The teen lived with her family. She was found dead in her room around 9 pm last night. No suicide note was found, the police say. The teen had more than 11 lakh followers on TikTok and reportedly last posted a dance video on Instagram six days ago. The tragic case has emerged nearly two weeks after actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death left the…