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South Africa captain Dean Elgar on winning over India in Johannesburg test

South Africa captain Dean Elgar on winning over India in Johannesburg test

Dean Elgar being the senior most batter said he took the responsibility to take his team over the line as he led from the front to ensure a famous seven-wicket win over India at the Wanderers in Johannesburg. The 34-year-old opener finished the match unbeaten on 96 off 188 balls, an innings spanning five hours and nine minutes, as they chased down 240 to level the three-match series. "I said to myself I'm going to be there till the end as a senior batter, someone who's been around for a long time. I needed to take the responsibility,” Dean Elgar said to the media. "It's…
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Wacom one-stop-shop and solution centre in Kolkata

Wacom one-stop-shop and solution centre in Kolkata

Wacom has announced the opening of its First Experience Centre in the city of joy, Kolkata. The new Experience Centre will be a one-stop-shop and solution centre for everything Wacom and will have the full range of Wacom products on display including the recently launched Wacom One, One by Wacom, Intuos, and Intuos Pro. Celebrating the launch, the new Wacom Experience Centre is also running a contest where participants can get a chance to win a Wacom product during their visit. Wacom Experience Centre in Kolkata is started and will be managed by Vikas Info solution which is one of…
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125 passengers on charter flight from Italy test positive for Covid in Amritsar

125 passengers on charter flight from Italy test positive for Covid in Amritsar

As many as 125 passengers that have arrived in Amritsar on a chartered Italy-Amritsar flight have tested positive for Covid-19, said airport authorities on Thursday. There were 179 passengers on the Italy-Amritsar flight, said VK Seth, Airport Director. Since Italy is one of the “at risk” countries according to the Union Health Ministry, all eligible passengers — 160 in this case — were tested for COVID-19 and 125 of them were found to be positive, they mentioned. Out of total 179 passengers, 19 were children or infant so they were exempt from on-arrival RT-PCR testing, they said. The charter flight…
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Omicron variant live updates: Positivity at 23.17%, Bengal makes RT-PCR report must for inter-state movement

Omicron variant live updates: Positivity at 23.17%, Bengal makes RT-PCR report must for inter-state movement

India has logged 90,928 new COVID cases in the last 24 hours, and the daily positivity rate is at 4.18 per cent the Union Health Ministry informed on Thursday. The active caseload of COVID cases in the country now stands at 2,85,401. As per the Ministry, 2,135 cases of the Omicron variant have been detected in India, of which 828 have recovered. As many as 4,82,551 recoveries and 534 deaths from the virus in the last 24 hours were also reported by the Ministry. While the cumulative recoveries from the virus stand at 3,43,21,803, the total COVID deaths were reported…
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Bindhu Ammini, who entered Sabarimala, assaulted in public. It’s not the first time

Bindhu Ammini, who entered Sabarimala, assaulted in public. It’s not the first time

Activist Bindhu Ammini, who was one of the first women between the ages of 10 to 50 to enter the Sabarimala temple, was attacked by a man in Kozhikode on Wednesday, January 5. Videos and images of the brutal attack have come to light. In the visuals, a man in a shirt and mundu/veshti is seen grabbing her and beating her. He is seen trying to choke her and pushing her head to the ground while she tries to defend herself. At one point while he is attacking her, his veshti falls off, leaving him exposed, as he continues to…
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Families of covid victims to get ₹ 50,000, additional: Delhi

Families of covid victims to get ₹ 50,000, additional: Delhi

Under the Delhi government's 'Mukhyamantri COVID-19 Pariwar Aarthik Sahayata Yojana' scheme 21,000 families have received financial assistance till now.  Senior government officials said, that directions have been issued to district magistrates to assist the scheme of ₹ 50,000 out of the DDRF to such families and a public notice is expected to be issued. Around 21,000 such families have received financial assistance of ₹ 50,000 under the Delhi government's 'Mukhyamantri COVID-19 Pariwar Aarthik Sahayata Yojana' scheme. Now, they will also receive an ex gratia of ₹ 50,000 out of the DDRF, a senior official said. "Applicants are required to apply directly to the concerned district magistrate in…
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President Ram Nath Kovind has expressed concern over security breach of PM

President Ram Nath Kovind has expressed concern over security breach of PM

The Prime Minister was stuck on a flyover for 15-20 minutes. President Ram Nath Kovind has expressed his concern over the security breach in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Punjab visit on Wednesday.  He will meet Prime Minister Modi shortly. Prime Minister Modi was scheduled to visit Ferozepur on Wednesday to lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth more than Rs 42,750 crore. In a statement the Home Ministry said that the Prime Minister landed at Bathinda on Wednesday morning from where he was to go to the National Martyrs Memorial at Hussainiwala by helicopter. Due to rain and…
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Delhi likely to report fresh 14,000 COVID cases today

Delhi likely to report fresh 14,000 COVID cases today

On Thursday (January 6, 2022) Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said that, the city is likely to witness 14,000 fresh COVID-19 cases today pushing the daily positivity rate to around 14%.No confirmed death has been reported due to the`Omicron` variant in Delhi. Delhi government is conducting more than 90,000 tests on a daily basis." Additionally, the government has reduced the quarantine period for home isolation to 7 days from 14 days; also the government has increased the number of oxygen beds and ventilators in private and government hospitals. Earlier, on Wednesday, Delhi reported 10,665 Covid cases today, a massive rise…
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Mithali to lead India squad for ICC Women’s World Cup 2022

Mithali to lead India squad for ICC Women’s World Cup 2022

India's young batter Janimah Rodrigues and all-rounder pacer Shikha Pandey were ignored for selection as BCCI announced the 15-member Indian women's cricket squad announced for the ICC ODI World Cup to be held in New Zealand from March 4 to April 3, 2022. Mithali Raj will continue to lead the side with Harmanpreet Kaur . The side also includes Smriti Mandhana, Jhulan Goswami and Shafali Verma among others. Janimah and Shikha have been ignored from the side due to a lack of form. Janimah failed to hit the double-figure mark during the last year in all the international assignments she was a part of. Pandey has…
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80 shops caught massive fire at Chandni Chowk’s Lajpat Rai market

80 shops caught massive fire at Chandni Chowk’s Lajpat Rai market

80 shops were destroyed after a massive blaze broke out in Chandni Chowk area in Delhi on Thursday, a fire department official said. A call was made about the fire at the Lajpat Rai market  which was received at around 4.35 a.m., said the official. Initially, 10 fire tenders were rushed to the spot, and later six more arrived. The fire officials faced difficulty in reaching the spot due to narrow lanes. A team of senior police was sent to the spot to assist the fire officials. The Centralised Accident & Trauma Services ambulance was also set in there for…
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