Breaking News, July 19

Seven people have died of cholera and about 100 others have been affected by the water-borne disease in Kashipur block in Odisha's Rayagada district, an official said on Tuesday. This was revealed by Rayagada District Collector Swadha Dev Singh based on a report of the ICMR’s Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC), Bhubaneswar.

 A seven-year-old child was killed and his face smashed after being allegedly sodomised here, police said on Tuesday. The matter came to the fore on Tuesday when the body of a child was recovered from a secluded place in a village in Hussainganj area, Superintendent of Police (SP) Rajesh Kumar Singh said.

 West Bengal on Tuesday registered six more COVID-19-related deaths, raising the toll to 21,288, a bulletin by the state health department said. At least 2,243 fresh cases were recorded, taking the tally to 20,74,550, it said, adding that the positivity rate stood at 15.37 per cent.

Gujarat on Tuesday reported 787 new cases of coronavirus that raised its tally of infections to 12,44,114, an official from the state health department said.

Starting next month, the Delhi government will send out forms to consumers with their electricity bills that will require them to state whether they want to avail power subsidy or not, according to officials.

A two-year-old boy drowned in the swimming pool of a bungalow in Maharashtra's Lonavala, where his family had gathered to celebrate his birthday, police said on Tuesday.

The Indore district administration has sealed a private hospital which was operating without registration near here and also filed a complaint against its director, an official said on Tuesday. The official said the illegal healthcare facility was being run as a multi-specialty hospital in Simrol town, about 30 km from Indore city.

The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union on Tuesday alleged violation of reservation policies in the hostel allotment process in the varsity, saying hostels are not being allotted to SC/ST students on a priority basis. The students' union demanded that Jawaharlal Nehru University's (JNU) SC/ST/OBC Cell and Equal Opportunity Office immediately take note of the "scuttling" of reservation policies.

The Uttar Pradesh Police on Tuesday arrested four people and is in search of four others for "unauthorisedly" offering namaz in the newly inaugurated LuLu Mall here. Police categorically said none of the accused is a staff of the mall.

Two men died on Tuesday after entering a closed coal mine and apparently inhaling toxic gases in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district, police said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Iran starting Tuesday is intended to deepen ties with regional heavyweights as part of Moscow's challenge to the United States and Europe amid its grinding campaign in Ukraine.

The Indore district administration has sealed a private hospital which was operating without registration near here and also filed a complaint against its director, an official said on Tuesday. The official said the illegal healthcare facility was being run as a multi-specialty hospital in Simrol town, about 30 km from Indore city.

Ahead of Wednesday's presidential election, Sri Lanka’s acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe has distanced himself from the disgraced Rajapaksa government, saying he was not in the "same administration" and was appointed to "handle the economy" of the bankrupt country.

A youth was arrested for damaging an idol of the Hindu god Shiva in an inebriated state at a temple here, police said on Tuesday.

Joint opposition candidate for the vice presidential election Margaret Alva on Tuesday filed her nomination papers for the post and was accompanied by a host of leaders. The vice presidential poll will be held on August 6 to elect the successor to M Venkaiah Naidu, whose term ends on August 10.

SpiceJet on Tuesday said it will start 26 new domestic flights from July 22. "The airline will also introduce direct flights to Nashik from Delhi, Hyderabad to Jammu, Mumbai to Guwahati, Jharsuguda to Madurai, Varanasi to Ahmedabad and Kolkata to Jabalpur," the airline stated.

The European Union on Tuesday is starting the long enlargement process that aims to lead to the membership of Albania and North Macedonia in the bloc. Any expansion beyond the 27 EU member states is likely to be years off, and both nations were already considered potential candidates 19 years ago. Despite the stalling, the Western Balkan nations have persevered in their ambition to become part of the world's most important trade bloc.

Nearly 30,000 people have been recruited in the public sector by the Jammu and Kashmir administration since 2019, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai also said employment for 5.2 lakh people is estimated to have been created through self-employment schemes from August 2019 up to June 2022.

The Nagpur police have beefed up security at the office of Shiv Sena MP Krupal Tumane, amid an impending split in the Sena parliamentary party, officials said on Tuesday. The security outside the homes and offices of some of the other Sena parliamentarians has also been stepped up, according to an official.

Thirty nine trains have been cancelled and 58 others diverted in over 30 hours after a goods train derailed and blocked the route in Gujarat's Dahod district, the Western Railway said on Tuesday. The cancelled trains include some local ones, while those diverted are all express trains.

The Uttar Pradesh government has set a target of providing shelter to at least 10 stray cows daily in each of the 75 districts of the state where roving herds of cattle was a potent issue during the recent Assembly election. According to Uttar Pradesh Animal Husbandry Minister Dharampal Singh, the state currently has 6,222 cow shelters housing 8.55 lakh homeless cattle.

At least seven electric bikes kept at a showroom in Maharashtra's Pune city were gutted after a fire broke out at the outlet during charging, fire brigade officials said. No one was injured in the incident which took place on Monday evening at the e-bike shop located near the Gangadham area of Market Yard.

Seven quintals of ganja were seized from a truck in Jharkhand's Ramgarh district, and two people were arrested, police said on Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, the truck was intercepted on National Highway 33, which connects Ranchi to Patna, near Hasagarha village in Mandu police station area on Monday, they said.

A low-intensity earthquake of magnitude 2.8 shook Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district on Tuesday morning, the state disaster management said. There was no report of any casualty or damage to property, officials said.

Two persons were killed and three others injured after their house collapsed in Maharashtra's Amravati district on Tuesday morning, police said. The incident took place at Fubgaon village in Chandur Bazar taluka of the district, located about 150 km from Nagpur.

Joint opposition candidate for vice presidential election Margaret Alva will file her nomination papers on Tuesday. The vice presidential poll will be held on August 6 to elect the successor to M Venkaiah Naidu, whose term ends on August 10.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has said India is an immortal nation with a unique essence of morality which brings peace and unites every country in the world. Bhagwat was speaking on Monday at a religious discourse in a temple here in Maharashtra.

A burqa-clad Pakistani woman was harassed by an unidentified man who groped her from behind in day time in the country's capital Islamabad, a video of the incident that has gone viral revealed. The video is buzzing on the internet, displaying that the woman was walking on a street in Islamabad, Geo tv reported.

A week after a Gurugram-based man and his wife were arrested at IGI Airport here for allegedly trying to smuggle 45 hand guns into the country, police on Monday arrested his absconding brother, officials said. Delhi Police spokesperson Suman Nalwa said on Monday around 7.30 pm, police got a tip-off and arrested Manjit Singh, a resident of Gurugram in Haryana, from near a metro bridge in Dwarka Sector 9.