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Persons who've been vaccinated with both doses of COVID vaccine & are in possession of final vaccination certificate, are exempted from requirement of a negative RT-PCR report on their entry into the State. Exemption applicable for domestic & int'l passengers: Govt of Maharashtra
Madhya Pradesh: At least 15 people fall into a well in Ganjbasoda area in Vidisha
Terror module busted in Bandipora with the arrest of three terrorist associates of LeT, arms ammunition & fake sim cards recovered: Jammu and Kashmir Police
8,010 new COVID cases, 7,391 patient discharges, and 170 deaths reported in Maharashtra today
Jammu and Kashmir: Baramulla district administration bars entry of local day-picnickers in the tourist destination of Gulmarg on Saturdays & Sundays; says only vaccinated or those having negative RT-PCR test report to be allowed in the town.
Central government extends the cut-off date for enrolment of farmers from July 15 to July 23 for Kharif season 2021 under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, as requested by the Maharashtra government.
Himachal Pradesh | A total of nine bodies have been recovered from Boh area after flash floods, as per Kangra District Emergency Operation Centre
Delhi: A six-member delegation of TMC led by MP Derek O'Brien visits the Election Commission of India office in Delhi to discuss the upcoming Assembly bypolls in West Bengal and other issues
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday took a dig at the Central government over the issues like vaccine shortage, situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), price hike, and farmers and claimed that the country knows who brought these difficult times.
Taking to Twitter, the Wayanad MP said, "Built through centuries erased in seconds. The country knows who brought these difficult times." #VaccineShortage #LAC #Unemployment #PriceHike #PSU #Farmers #OnlyPR."
The Maharashtra Congress took out a bicycle rally in Mumbai and other parts of the state to protest against the galloping fuel prices, here on Thursday. State Congress President Nana Patole, Mumbai party chief Bhai Jagtap, ministers, legislators and other senior leaders pedaled their way from Hanging Garden to Raj Bhavan in Malabar Hill in south Mumbai.
While some carried banners or posters, the others raised slogans attacking the Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre for its failure to control the spiraling prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas.
A Delhi court on Thursday said it will hear the bail application of former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Umar Khalid, arrested under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in the northeast Delhi riots conspiracy case, on July 27. Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat has sought a reply from the prosecution on Umar's bail plea by the next day of the hearing.
Senior advocate Trideep Pais is representing the accused in the case.
Zomato's initial public offering was oversubscribed 1.3 times on the second day of the offering with retail investors continuing to bid for shares of the food delivery platform. The offer received bids for 95.44 crore equity shares against an IPO size of 71.92 crore, stock exchange data showed. Retail investors sought 3.96 times the portion reserved for them. Against 12.95 crore shares reserved for retail individual investors, 51.36 crore shares were bid by 1400 hours.
Non-institutional investors put in bids for 26 per cent against their reserved portion while qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) fully took their quota of 38.8 crore shares.
The portion set aside for employees has been subscribed 22 per cent.
OnePlus on Thursday said it has formed a strategic partnership with streaming platform Lionsgate Play to bring an extensive global content library for its TV users. "With the diverse content catalogue from Lionsgate Play now available on all OnePlus TVs, including the newly launched OnePlus TV U1S, users will be able to enjoy an enhanced viewing experience with rich content," a statement said.
Lionsgate Play will be accessible on OxygenPlay - the content discovery platform of OnePlus TV - allowing users to easily access an assortment of content from various content partners, it added.
Lionsgate Play is known for its bespoke content, including academy award-winning movies, box office hits and local titles.
Kerala: Four workers have died due to suffocation while cleaning a well at Kundara in Kollam district. A fire officer who was part of the rescue operation has been admitted to the hospital
The desert state of Rajasthan, known across the globe for its palaces and forts, will now be promoted as an adventure and monsoon destination, confirmed the Rajasthan Tourism officials.
A 55-year-old coronavirus patient undergoing treatment in a government-run hospital at Alibaug in Maharashtra’s Raigad district allegedly attacked a doctor with a saline stand after the latter asked him not to remove his oxygen mask repeatedly, police said on Thursday. This incident took place at the Alibaug Civil Hospital’s COVID-19 ward in the early hours of Wednesday, they said.
Doctor Swapnadeep Thale suffered injuries in the incident and was hospitalised for treatment, a police official said.
The Janata Dal (Secular) would field its candidates in at least 150 seats and the party would announce the list of its candidates by January 15 next
year, former Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said on Thursday. "Before January 15 next year, when the election will be one year away, we are planning to select candidates for at least 150 assembly constituencies, so that they can start working," Kumaraswamy told reporters.
Portal for the moderation of marks of classes XI & XII to be opened from 16th July to 22nd July, for declaration of results by 31st July: Central Board of Secondary Education in a letter to affiliated schools
Bandaru Dattatreya took oath as 18th governor of Haryana on Thursday, succeeding Satyadeo Narain Arya, who has been shifted to Tripura. He was administered the oath of office by Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court Ravi Shanker Jha in a simple ceremony held at the Raj Bhavan.
PM Narendra Modi inaugurates International Cooperation & Convention Centre- 'Rudrakash'
A powerful roadside bomb targeting security forces killed two soldiers in southwest Pakistan, the mílitary said Thursday, a sign of increasing violence in the region. The overnight attack happened in Pasni, a district in the impoverished Baluchistan province, according to a military statement. It said a search operation was still underway to arrest those who orchestrated the bombing. It provided no further details and only said hostile intelligence forces were behind the violence.
No group immediately claimed responsibility, but previous such attacks on security forces have been blamed on small separatist groups that have been carrying out a long-running insurgency demanding independence from the central government in Islamabad.
Mizoram continued to register a surge in COVID-19 cases as 581 more people tested positive for the infection, pushing the state's tally to 25,751, a health department official said on Thursday. The toll climbed to 116 after a 74-year-old woman from Aizawl district succumbed to the infection, he said. Aizawl district reported the highest number of fresh cases at 272, followed by Kolasib at 129, Lunglei district at 58, Mamit at 57 and Lawngtlai at 49. Notably, at least 115 children are among the newly infected people, the official said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday praised the Uttar Pradesh government for its handling of the Covid crisis and said the way it had controlled the second wave of the infection was “unprecedented”. The prime minister, who arrived at his parliamentary constituency in the morning, also appreciated the Yogi Adiyanath-led government for working with a development oriented approach rather than one based on corruption and nepotism.
Describing the efforts of the government in combating COVID-19 as “commendable”, the prime minister said, “The way in which UP has controlled the second wave of corona and stopped its spread is unprecedented.”
Another neo-Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorist was arrested from Barasat near Kolkata, police said on Thursday. Lalu Sen alias Rahul Sen or Rahul Kumar was arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) of the West Bengal Police from his residence in Barasat Municipality area in the North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday night, they said. He is understood to be a close associate of the three JMB terrorists arrested from south Kolkata on Sunday, a senior police officer said.
At least six people have died and several people are missing in Germany after heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents, sweeping away cars and causing some buildings to collapse. Police in the western city of Koblenz said in a tweet Thursday that four people had died in Ahrweiler county, and about 50 were trapped on the roofs of their houses awaiting rescue.
Twenty children hailing from Puducherry were hospitalised on Thursday after testing positive for COVID-19, Director of Health and Family Welfare
services S Mohan Kumar said. They were admitted to the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College Hospital at Kadirkamam.
Jammu & Kashmir CID today conducted a raid at Central Jail Jammu, Kotbhalwal, and recovered mobile phones
Maharashtra government has requested the Center to extend the deadline of the PM's Crop Insurance scheme till July23. The letter states, "46 lakh farmers have applied for the scheme till date but several are still to complete formalities for the scheme."
Former Mizoram Governor PS Sreedharan Pillai was sworn-in as the new Governor of Goa on Thursday. Pillai, a former state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party unit in Kerala, was administered the oath of office by Bombay High Court Chief Justice Dipankar Datta.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant has tested positive for COVID-19 in the ongoing tour of England and will not travel with the team to Durham as it reassembles for next month's Test series against the hosts. A BCCI source confirmed that it was Pant who tested positive and was in isolation for the past eight days. He is, according to the source, asymptomatic at this point.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid homage to Congress stalwart K Kamaraj on his birth anniversary, saying he dedicated his life to national development and social empowerment. A former chief minister of erstwhile Madras State, now Tamil Nadu, Kamaraj was a key organisational leader of the Congress and played a crucial role in the elevation of first Lal Bahadur Shastri and then Indira Gandhi as prime minister. Differences between the old guards led by him and Gandhi later led to a split in the party.
Here's what PM Narendra Modi said in Varanasi
Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamalnath to meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi today at 12 pm today
PM Modi inaugurates various development projects worth over Rs 1500 crores in Varanasi
Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane witnesses the firing of artillery guns including the Sharang, M-777 ultra-light howitzer, Bofors, Dhanush in the Pokharan field firing ranges in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicts light to moderate intensity rain over parts of Delhi, Kurukshetra, Karna Hastinapur, Kashganj, Atrauli, Aligarh and other nearby areas in the region during the next two hours
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) ground in Varanasi.
Amid concerns of identifying a cluster of Zika virus in the capital city, five more people, including four women, have tested positive for the infection in Kerala, taking the caseload in the state to 28.
India's cumulative Covid-19 vaccination coverage has crossed the landmark of 39 crore that includes 34,97,058 shots administered across the country in the past 24 hours. Cumulatively, 39,13,40,491 vaccine doses have been administered through 49,41,567 sessions, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) citing the provisional report received till 7 a.m. on Thursday.
Jharkhand reported 68 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, which pushed the tally to 3,46,479, a health department bulletin said on Thursday.
The COVID-19 death toll remained at 5,120 as no new fatality due to the contagion was reported in the last 24 hours, it said. Of the 68 new cases, Ramgarh reported 14 cases followed by Ranchi (11) and eight cases each from Dhanbad and Jamtara.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Varanasi a short while ago
Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks on World Youth Skills Day. Here are the pointers
Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson yet to apply for license of COVID-19 vaccines in India: Sources
Himachal Pradesh: Debris enter houses in a village in Bhalan panchayat of Kullu dist following flood due to heavy rainfall last night. No injuries/casualties reported. A road in the area is blocked due to debris. Local Admn is carrying out operation to clear the road.
Two Russian swimmers set to compete at the Tokyo Olympics were provisionally suspended for anti-doping violations by world governing body FINA. Alexandr Kudashev and Veronika Popova Andrusenko were suspended on Wednesday based on evidence supplied by the World Anti-Doping Agency, according to FINA. It said the evidence came from WADA's examination of materials recovered from the former Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, including the lab’s management information system.
Equity benchmark Sensex advanced over 100 points in early trade on Thursday, tracking gains in index majors L&T, HDFC Bank and HCL Tech amid a largely positive trend in global markets. The 30-share BSE index was trading 111.50 points or 0.21 per cent higher at 53,015.55 in initial deals, while the broader NSE Nifty rose 31.30 points or 0.20 per cent to 15,885.25.
L&T was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, surging over 3 per cent, followed by HCL Tech, Tech Mahindra, HDFC Bank, Dr Reddy’s and UltraTech Cement. On the other hand, M&M, Asian Paints, Maruti, ITC, Titan and Infosys were among the laggards.
Staff at a Japanese hotel hosting Brazil's Olympic judo team test positive for coronavirus
India reports 41,806 new COVID-19 cases, 39,130 recoveries, & 581 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per Health Ministry
Total cases: 3,09,87,880
Total recoveries: 3,01,43,850
Active cases: 4,32,041
Death toll: 4,11,989
Total vaccinated: 39,13,40,491 (34,97,058 in last 24 hrs)
Haridwar SSP asks people to not arrive in the district for Kanwar Yatra.
Provision for 14-day mandatory institutional quarantine for people coming from outside. Vehicle of anyone attempting to enter the dist will be seized; action under Disaster Mgmt Act for violation of rules.
43,80,11,958 samples tested for COVID-19 up to 14th July 2021. Of these, 19,43,488 samples were tested yesterday: Indian Council of Medical Research
Jammu and Kashmir: A drone was spotted near the Air Force station in Jammu last night
Delhi Police registers a case under Official Secrets Act against accused Habibur Rahman who has been arrested from Pokharan, Rajasthan. He worked for Pakistan's ISI and had also been there: Delhi Police Crime Branch
Searches being conducted by Central Crime Branch (CCB) in Bengaluru, on houses where foreigners stay, to check for overstaying and to also see if anyone is staying without proper documents: Central Crime Branch (CCB)
One of the 23 Indian cricketers in the ongoing tour of England has tested positive for COVID-19 during the 20-day break and will not be travelling with the team to Durham on Thursday. The news comes in the wake of BCCI secretary Jay Shah recently sending an e-mail to the Indian contingent in the United Kingdom warning it about the rising cases of COVID-19. The side is to reassemble at Durham in a bio-bubble ahead of the Test series against England next month.
Search teams were trying Thursday to rescue 14 construction workers trapped by an overnight flood in a tunnel being built in southern China. The cause of the 3:30 a.m. flood in the city of Zhuhai is under investigation, the city’s emergency management department said in an online post. A command center was set up, and the rescue teams were mobilized from several city agencies.
The Telangana cabinet on Wednesday approved a logistics policy against the backdrop of the rapid growth in industries, e-commerce and services sector. The government will develop basic infrastructure facilities like warehouses, cold storages, dry ports, truck dock parking and other in the logistics sector.
Three con men targeting luxury car owners have been arrested in Bengaluru and 19 luxury cars valued around Rs 3 crore seized from them, police said on Wednesday. The three were identified as Naseeb, Mohamme Azam and Mahir Khan, all residents of Bengaluru. Bengaluru Police Commissioner, Kamal Pant said that the Central Crime Branch's Organised Crime wing unearthed the cheating case and arrested three persons.
Karnataka would convert 150 Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) across the state into technology hubs under the Udyoga (job creation) scheme at a cost of Rs 5,000 crore, said Deputy Chief Minister C.N. Ashwath Narayan on Wednesday. "Converting ITIs into technology hubs will accelerate up-skilling our youth workforce across the state and prepare them for jobs," Narayan told reporters here on the eve of 'World Youth Skills Day on Thursday.
Delhi food minister Imran Hussain on Wednesday said four persons were injured after a roof of a house collapsed due to rain in the Ballimaran area in the central part of the city. The minister visited the place and took to Twitter to inform about the incident.
Argentina on Wednesday reported more than 1,00,000 deaths from COVID-19 since the pandemic began, a heavy blow to a country that intermittently imposed some of the most severe lockdowns in the world, only to see erratic compliance by many people. Some 614 people died from the disease in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 1,00,250, the Health Ministry said.
Two women died when their small plane crashed into an empty home in a luxury gated community in the hills of Northern California, relatives said Wednesday. Mary Ellen Carlin of Pacific Grove was flying the plane Tuesday, and Alice Diane Emig of Rancho Cordova and her dog, Toby, were on board, Emig's family told Monterey Bay-area news station KSBW-TV.
The twin-engine Cessna 421 crashed into the home in the gated community about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from the city of Monterey shortly after departing from Monterey Regional Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh today. He will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects during the visit
Diamantaire Mehul Choksi has landed in Antigua and Barbuda, where he has been staying since 2018 after leaving India, after 51 days of custody in neighbouring Dominica for illegal entry which his lawyers claim was a kidnapping plan, local media reported. Choksi, 62, was given bail by Dominica High Court to travel back to Antigua for seeking medical help from a neurologist based there.
After depositing bail money of EC Dollars 10,000, Choksi in a shirt and shorts flew back to Antigua in a chartered plane, Antigua News Room reported.
While seeking bail, Choksi had attached his medical reports, including CT scan, which showed "mildly worsening hematoma". The doctors recommend an urgent review of his medical condition by a neurologist and a neurosurgical consultant.
An Indian-American non-profit body said it has raised more than USD 30 million towards its COVID-19 relief efforts in India and has airlifted a fresh lot of medical equipment to the country. Sewa International USA is procuring needed medical equipment like oxygen concentrators and shipping them to India, it said in a statement.
Sewa said that a planeload of medical equipment have reached New Delhi marking yet another milestone in its efforts to supply much-needed medical equipment to India to help the country fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
VP Naidu calls meeting of Rajya Sabha floor leaders on July 17 ahead of Parliament monsoon session
The price of petrol and diesel in Delhi is at Rs 101.54 per litre & Rs 89.87 per litre respectively today
Petrol and diesel prices per litre - Rs 107.54 and Rs 97.45 in Mumbai; Rs 109.89 and Rs 98.67 in Bhopal; Rs 101.74 & Rs 93.02 in Kolkata respectively
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