India on Thursday continued its streak of daily net declines in the count of active cases. A drop of 24,278, the most in a day since September 22, brought the total down to 715,812, which is the lowest since August 26 and 30 per cent lower than the September 18 peak of 1,017,754. With 702 Covid-19 fatalitities, India’s death toll reached 116,616, while 79,415 cured cases took the country’s total recovered cases to 6,874,518, or 89.20 per cent of all confirmed infections so far. The country has reported as many as 1,686,693 cured coronavirus cases in October so far. Overall,…
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After receiving permission from the Delhi government and police, Vishnu Avatar Ramleela Committee has organised Ramleela in North East Shastri Park amid COVID-19. The Ramleela has been conducted in compliance with all COVID-19 preventive measures and two persons wearing PPE kits come on the stage of Ramleela before the show starts and asked people to maintain social distancing. The seating has been arranged for around 1,500 people and artists from Nataraj Kala Kendra are performing in the Ramleela.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate three key projects in Gujarat on Saturday via video conference. He will launch the ‘Kisan Suryodaya Yojana’ for the state’s farmers, inaugurate the Paediatric Heart Hospital attached with the UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre and a mobile application for telecardiology at the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital, the Prime Minister’s Office said on Thursday. He will also inaugurate a ropeway at Girnar on the occasion, it added. Under the ‘Kisan Suryodaya Yojana’, which envisages providing day-time power supply for irrigation, farmers will get electricity from 5 am to 9 pm. The state government…
Lieutenant Divya Sharma, Lt Shubhangi Swaroop, and Lt Shivangi are now ready to take on missions on Dornier aircraft. Scripting a new chapter, the Indian Navy has got ready its first batch of three women pilots for Maritime Reconnaissance (MR) missions on Dornier aircraft. They have been “operationalized on Dornier aircraft” by the Southern Naval Command (SNC) here today, he said. The spokesman said the three women pilots were part of the six pilots of the 27th Dornier Operational Flying Training (DOFT) Course, who graduated as fully operational maritime reconnaissance (MR) pilots at a passing-out ceremony held at INS Garuda…
In a suspected case of human sacrifice, a lady allegedly axed her 24-year-old son to death, claiming that she felt sort of a goddess, at a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Panna district on Thursday, police said. The incident happened at Kohni village at around 4.30 am, when Suniabai Lodhi attacked her son Dwarka with an axe, said Arun Soni, in-charge of Panna Kotwali police headquarters . The accused, who is in her 50s, claimed that she felt sort of a goddess sometimes and on Wednesday night, she felt an equivalent way and attacked her son with an axe, the official…
Seeking his re-election, US President Donald Trump on Wednesday told Americans that he will deliver optimism, opportunity and hope while his Democratic rival Joe Biden will usher in “pessimism, poverty and decline”. With but a fortnight left for the November 3 presidential elections, Trump described it as a vote on “47 years of Biden versus his 47 months because the US President”. “For the last 47 years, Joe Biden has been outsourcing your job, opening your borders,” he alleged. “I will deliver optimism, opportunity, and hope. Biden will deliver pessimism, poverty, and decline,” Trump told thousands of his supporters in…
A Delhi court has dismissed the appliance of student activist Gulfisha Khatoon, arrested under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), seeking statutory bail during a case associated with the communal violence in northeast Delhi in February. The court also dismissed the applications of Saleem Khan and Tasleem Ahmed, arrested within the case under UAPA, seeking statutory bail. Khatoon, Khan and Ahmed had sought statutory bail on the grounds that the blotter wasn’t filed within the mandatory period of time of 90 days and therefore the court, which was presently hearing the matter, didn’t have jurisdiction over the case. Additional…
With yet another net decline on Tuesday, India’s count of active coronavirus cases came down to 748,538, which is fewer than France’s tally of 770,719 and the US’ 2,728,163. With sub-600 Covid-19 fatalitities for consecutive days – 587 reported on Tuesday – India’s death toll reached 115,197, while 69,720 cured cases pushed the country’s total recovered cases to 6,733,328, or 88.63 per cent of all confirmed infections so far. The country has reported as many as 1,545,503 cured coronavirus cases in October so far. Overall, an addition of 46,790 cases – the lowest single-day spike since July 23 – took…
After CBI had registered a case in the TRP scam case where the Mumbai police is trying to implicate Republic TV and shield India Today, Uddhav govt blocked CBI from probing investigating. At a time when the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is probing several high-profile cases in Maharashtra, the Uddhav Thackeray govt in the state has taken a decision to block the central agency to investigate any case in the state. The Maharashtra government on Wednesday passed an order withdrawing its consent for the CBI to probe cases in the state. As per law, the central investigative agency needs…
An Islamic State supporter has been convicted of encouraging terrorism with a video urging fanatics to attack central London. Shehroz Iqbal (29), claimed that in the video, he was saying “attack, attack” because he wanted a German Shepherd like his former pet dog, Rocky, and was practicing commands. But a jury rejected that explanation to find the 29-year-old guilty of all charges on Tuesday. The Old Bailey court heard that Iqbal travelled to the Southbank Centre on March 11 and filmed landmarks from the Hayward Gallery, an art gallery within the Southbank Centre in central London. In a video shown…