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India’s coronavirus tally crossed 65-lakh mark with the spike of 75,829 new infections in the last 24 hours, the Union health ministry said on Sunday. According to fresh update Sunday morning, India recorded 940 deaths, taking the national death toll to 1,01,782. Total coronavirus cases in India now stands at 65,49,374, while active cases tally is at 9,37,625 active cases. A total of 55,09,967 cured/discharged/migrated cases have been discharged as on Sunday morning, the Union health ministry said.

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AS Trump is admitted to military hospital after testing positive for coronavirus, the doctors say that President’s health status went through a “very concerning” period and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care as he battles the coronavirus. The comments came after it was revealed that Trump was administered supplemental oxygen Friday morning at the White House before he was transported to the hospital, although staff insisted he had only mild symptoms. Trump’s doctors, for their part, painted a rosy picture of the president’s health in a press conference at Walter Reed National Military Medical…

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Rated as one of the top 10 missiles in the world, Shaurya was successfully test fired in India yesterday. With a strike range of around 1,000 km from a test range in Odisha it is indigenously developed nuclear capable hypersonic missile. ‘Shaurya’, which is the land variant of India’s K-15 missile, has a strike range of 700 km to 1000 km and is capable of carrying payloads of 200 kg to 1000 kg, the sources said. The surface-to-surface tactical missile was blasted off from a canister strapped to the ground launcher from launch complex 4 of the Integrated Test Range…

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a scathing attack against the Congress for showing lack of ‘political courage’ in support of new farm reforms, which are aimed to free the farmers from the clutches of middlemen and commission agents. “Those opposing these reforms are not prepared to change their century-old mind-set to accept a historic change that the new laws will bring around in larger interest of the farmers,” he said while addressing a public meeting at Solang nullah, near Manali. Without directly naming Congress PM Modi said, that the new reforms give full freedom and more options to…

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On the seat sharing agreement between the grand alliance, BJP and JDU agree upon a fifty fifty seats. This comes days before elections in Bihar that both Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United (JDU) and the BJP have reached a seat-sharing agreement in principle and the announcement is expected soon The JDU will get 122 of the 243 seats while the BJP will have 121, according to the arrangement, sources said. While Mr Kumar’s party will accommodate Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha within its quota, the BJP will give seats to Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party from…

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The 20 personnel who laid their lives while fighting China to safeguard the border have been honoured by a memorial. The Indian Army has built a memorial for its 20 personnel in eastern Ladakh on June 15, official sources said on Saturday. The memorial, located at Post 120 in eastern Ladakh and inaugurated earlier this week, mentions the heroics of the “Gallants of Galwan” under operation “Snow Leopard” and the way they evicted the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops from the area while inflicting “heavy casualties” on them in “hand-to-hand combat”. China is yet to disclose the number of…

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In the upcoming elections, it has been decided that Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav will be the Chief Ministerial candidate for the opposition coalition in Bihar and his party has been allotted 144 seats out of 243 in the upcoming state elections after negotiations in the Grand Alliance. The Congress will contest in 70 and Left parties 29 while the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha will get seats from the RJD quota, the alliance announced on Saturday. Upset with the division, one of the smaller parties in the coalition, the VIP party, walked out of the grouping saying they had been…

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“I was never meant to be perfect. I was meant to be beautifully flawed,” wrote actress Ileana D’Cruz, who has in the past talked about battling Body Dysmorphic Disorder, in an Instagram post on Thursday. The actress, 33, posted a black and white photograph of herself and wrote a lengthy note on body positivity. Ileana had, in an interview last year, said that she had issues accepting her body the way it is. She had also opened up about battling body-shaming at different stages of her life in the past. In her latest post, Ileana wrote: “I’ve always worried about…

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Atal Rohtang Tunnel, world’s longest tunnel in the world, was inaugurated by PM Modi today. The 9.02km long tunnel connects Manali to Leh. After the inauguration, Prime Minister Modi said that there was ‘nothing more important to us (the government) than protecting country.’ Atal Rohtang Tunnel—A Dream Turning Into Reality For Lahaul Population On Oct 3 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the strategically important all-weather Atal Tunnel, which reduces the distance between Manali and Leh by 46 km and the travel time by four to five hours, at Rohtang in Himachal Pradesh. Atal Tunnel, built by the Border…

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https://www.instagram.com/tv/CF4VdbWn7Ng/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Akshay Kumar took to social media on Saturday and shared a video message for his fans, in which he said that the problem of drugs exists in Bollywood but not every celebrity is involved in it. Akshay Kumar said that ever since Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, there are several issues that have surfaced which have caused them (celebrities) as much pain as it has caused to their fans. Akshay Kumar, in his video message, said, “In muddon ne hume apne khud ke girebaan mein jhaankne ko majboor kia hai. Humari film industry ki aisi bhot khaamiyon ko dekhne pe…

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