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20 Jun

Delhi becomes second city to cross 50,000-mark after Mumbai

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New Delhi: With a spike of 3,137 new cases in last 24 hours, the number of coronavirus in Delhi crossed the 50,000-mark, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare while adding that 66 fatalities were reported during the same period, taking the city’s fatality rate to 3.8 per cent. According to the Union Health Ministry, the national capital has reported 53,116 cases of the highly contagious coronavirus and 2,035 deaths due to the virus. With this, Delhi has also become the second city in India after Mumbai to report more than 50,000 cases of the novel coronavirus. The number of…

20 Jun

PM Modi launches Rs 50,000 crore ‘Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan’

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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan, the Rs 50,000 crore mega scheme to provide jobs to the migrant workers who returned to their respective villages during the coronavirus-mandated lockdown. The mega job scheme will roll out 116 districts across the country, in which the maximum number of migrant workers have returned. Under the Garib Kalyan Rojgaar Yojana, 25 other existing schemes were brought together to provide livelihood for migrant workers for 125 days and create assets for these districts. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while unveiling the mega job scheme from Khagaria district in…

20 Jun

26/11 attack plotter Tahawwur Rana arrested in Los Angeles

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New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: In a major breakthrough for the Indian security agencies, Pakistan-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana has been rearrested in Los Angeles on an extradition request by India for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack in which 166 people were killed, US prosecutors said on Friday as reported by news agency PTI. Tahawwur Rana, 59, who was serving a 14-year sentence at a Los Angeles federal prison, was recently released from jail on compassionate ground after he told a US court that he has tested positive for the COVID-19. He was rearrested following an extradition request by…

19 Jun

Education : CBSE may decide on Board exams by Monday.

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The Central Board of Secondary Education will decide the fate of its pending Class 10 and 12 board examinations by June 23. The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has extended its deadline for students to decide whether to write examinations or not to June 24, and will specify its alternative assessment option by June 22. Ahead of the SC hearing, HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal had held a meeting with Anita Karwal, secretary, school education, Manoj Ahuja, chairperson, CBSE and Vineet Joshi, director general, National Testing Agency on Tuesday. However, the meeting remained inconclusive. According to a senior…

19 Jun

Goa: 90% of state’s 705 Covid-19 positive cases have been recorded in June

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Goa, which has a relatively smaller population of 16.6 lakh, has reported 705 coronavirus disease (Covid-19) positive cases, which are comparable with states such as Himachal Pradesh (HP) that has a far higher population. Goa has been reporting 35 Covid-19 positive cases on an average daily since early June. Worse, the daily average has been 41 Covid-19 positive cases in the past week. On the contrary, HP, whose population is four times that of Goa, has reported 595 Covid-19 positive cases and a daily average of 14.72. While 90% of Goa’s 705 Covid-19 positive cases have been recorded in June,…

19 Jun

All party meeting to discuss China issue begins

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India-China LAC Standoff: Indian Army has been given emergency powers to deal with the situation arising out of China's deadly attack that killed 20 Bravehearts of 16 Bihar Regiment in the Galwan Valley. At least 20 Indian soldiers of 16 Bihar Regiment were killed and several others injured in the deadliest clash at the Line of Actual Control at the Galwan Valley in Ladakh by China's People's Liberation Army. The hand-to-hand (no shots were fired) fight was savage and lasted for almost eight hours on Monday night. PLA death squad were armed with batons, iron wires and rods and launched an…

19 Jun

Uttarakhand CM Pays Tributes To Kedarnath Flood Victims

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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Wednesday paid tributes to the people killed in the 2013 Kedarnath floods disaster, during a virtual "Tribute and Prayer Meeting" organised by All India Uttarakhand Tragedy Victims Forum. MoS for Health and Family Welfare, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, who was among the survivors of the disaster, is the convenor of this forum. A tribute program for those who lost their lives in the Kedarnath disaster is organised annually. CM Trivendra Singh Rawat said that thousands of people died prematurely in the horrific disaster seven years ago. While paying tribute to all those killed in…

19 Jun

World’s Largest Bony Fish ‘Mola-Mola’ Spotted Near Portland Harbour

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A rare monster ocean sunfish, known as “Mola-Mola”, has been spotted near a popular tourist harbour, off the Dorset coast near Portland Harbour in the UK. World’s largest bony fish alive, normally found in tropical waters, can weigh up to 2.3 tons and grow to be 10ft long. Shared by the Marien Conservation society on Twitter, the fish was shot by Liz Hemsley and has caused a stir on the internet. Captioned as the largest bony fishes alive on the planet that visit the UK at the time of summers in search of food, the jellyfishes, the post has attracted huge reaction. “I love…

19 Jun

Chinese Attack In Galwan Pre-planned, Govt Was Fast Asleep

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New Delhi, Jun 19 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said it is now clear that the Chinese attack in Galwan valley in Ladakh was "pre-planned" and that the government was "fast asleep" while the martyred jawans paid the price. Gandhi's attack comes ahead of the all-party meeting convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday evening to discuss the situation along the India-China border. Twenty Indian Army personnel, including a colonel, were killed in a clash with Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on Monday night, the biggest military confrontation in over five decades that has…

19 Jun

Covid-19 patients, family must get test report

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The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Maharashtra government to provide the reports of test for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) to patients and their relatives directly. The bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan passed the order. The direction came as part of the suo moto monitoring by the top court of facilities to Covid-19 patients. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had issued a circular on June 13 which said that the test report will not be shared by the laboratory directly with the patient. “Laboratory will share the report with MCGM (Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai) and MCGM in return…