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11 Jun

Locust Attack In Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj

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Thu, 11 Jun 2020 : Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj district has become the latest victim to the attack of locust swarms on the fields blossomed with vegetation and the residential areas as well which began on Tuesday night and continued through Wednesday. However, no major loss of crop has been reported. According to local media reports, villages, such as Dharwara, Madeni Singh ka Pura, Tala, Hathsara and Lohandi have been affected by the locust swarms in Prayagraj districts. The Locusts reportedly entered Prayagraj from Mirzapur district, and prior to that the swarms were spotted in Singrauli and Sonbhadra districts on Monday and Tuesday.…

11 Jun

Encounter Breaks Out In Jammu And Kashmir’s Budgam, Operation Going On

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An encounter has broken out between security forces and terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district this morning, the police said. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Budgam after getting information about the presence of terrorists there, a police officer said. He said the search operation turned into an encounter after the hiding terrorists fired at the security forces. The encounter is going on.

10 Jun

Most Covid-19 deaths in Karnataka occur due to delay in reaching hospitals.

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Most COVID-19 deaths in Karnataka occur when infected elderly people, those with Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) or any other symptoms delay reaching designated hospitals, a top official saidMunish Moudgil, chief of COVID-19 War Room in the state, said most of those infected with the virus are brought to COVID-19 designated hospitals at a very late stage and recovery then becomes extremely tough. The death rate due to SARI is 43 per cent for those in the 40-60 age group, he said, releasing data on coronavirus deaths, to reporters. In the same age group, the mortality due to Influenza-Like Illness…

10 Jun

Prayers Held at Ram Janmabhoomi Site for ‘Early Start’ to Temple Construction.

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Priests conducted special prayers at a Shiva shrine at the Ram Janmabhoomi site here but stopped short of symbolically launching the construction of a Ram temple, contrary to an announcement made earlier this week. Mahant Kamal Nayan Das, who participated in the 'rudrabhishek' ritual at the Kuber Tila shrine said he prayed for an early beginning of construction of the Ram temple. "This religious ceremony will last for at least two hours and after that the construction of the Ram Mandir will start with the laying of the foundation for the mandir structure,” he had said then. But on June…

10 Jun

TMC says Time to Deal with Covid and not Politics.

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The West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has entered poll mode with about a year to go for the Assembly elections, announcing a series of ‘virtual meetings’, the first of which will be addressed by union home minister Amit Shah . The party also named its new state executive that would lead the party to the elections. Lashing out at chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Shah said that the TMC supremo is encouraging “political violence to grow in the state” and promised to return the state to the golden days of culture and tradition if the BJP is…

10 Jun

Airlines loss in 2020 : IATA

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Geneva: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released its financial outlook for the global air transport industry showing that “airlines are expected to lose $84.3 billion in 2020 for a net profit margin of -20.1 per cent”. According to IATA, revenues will fall 50 per cent to $419 billion from $838 billion in 2019. In 2021, losses are expected to be cut to $15.8 billion as revenues rise to $598 billion.“Financially, 2020 will go down as the worst year in the history of aviation. On average, every day of this year will add $230 million to industry losses. In…

10 Jun

Delhi University MA English Students Say ‘Not Comfortable With Online Examination’

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125 students out of 183 students studying in Delhi University’s MA english said they were not comfortable with online examination. Out of the 183 only 89 of them had access to computers, which will be essential to appear for the exam. The final year masters students of the department have submitted these statistics along with a letter arguing that online exams should not be conducted. The students of the department had conducted an online survey, in which 183 students out of a total strength of 328 were able to respond. Even suggesting an alternative form of evaluation, 42.6% of students…

09 Jun

West Bengal :11 Kolkata Police personnel test positive for COVID-19.

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As many as 11 Kolkata Police personnel have tested positive for COVID-19, taking the total number of infected policemen in the force to 217, a senior officer said on Tuesday. The 11 infected Kolkata Police personnel were from the combat force, the Police Training School (PTS) and different police stations, the officer said. “At the moment we have around 217 policemen who have been diagnosed with the disease. We have several of our colleagues who have recovered and resumed duty… I think our colleagues are doing a fabulous job. I wish everyone will be safe and all those down with…

09 Jun

Send migrants workers home within 15 days

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A man dozes off as migrant workers from West Bengal wait after queueing up overnight on a roadside pavement to register for home bound trains The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre and state governments to send all the migrant workers to their native places within 15 days and formulate employment schemes after conducting their skill mapping to rehabilitate them. A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and M.R. Shah also directed the Centre to provide additional trains within 24 hours of states making the demand for sending the migrant workers back to their native places. The…

09 Jun

VANDE BHARAT MISSION: AROUND 40,000 INDIAN NATIONAL REGISTERED WITH US

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Vande Bharat Mission started in the US on May 7 and now its almost completing one month. We have had about 16 flights so far. We have had about 40,000 Indian nationals who have registered with us. So far, we have been able to take about 5000,” he told ANI“The first phase, we went in a very scientific way. We created a special site on which we got the total numbers. And this is an emergency evacuation flight. So based on the requirements of them going back, the first two phases, 16 flights, 5000 people have gone. Now the third…