Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:26:59
Thirty people have died in a landslide near a village in coastal Raigad district of Maharashtra, police said on Friday.
The toll in the incident near Talai village in Mahad tehsil is likely to rise, police said, as many areas of Maharashtra continued to face rain fury since the past few days.
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Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:24:25
Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar on Thursday said all teaching and non-teaching staff of the government, aided and unaided schools will be vaccinated on a priority basis as a safety measure.
In a statement, Sudhakar said schools will have to reopen sooner or later as children cannot depend on online classes forever.
'Online classes may impact the psychological health of the children.T
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Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:21:51
The Karnataka High Court on Friday quashed the notice issued to Twitter India Managing Director Manish Maheshwari by Uttar Pradesh police, seeking his personal appearance as part of its probe into a communally sensitive video uploaded by a user on Twitter platform, saying it was issued by malafide.
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Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:19:25
President Ram Nath Kovind, who is the Visitor to Central universities, has approved the appointment of vice chancellors in 12 varsities, according to Ministry of Education (MoE) officials.
"The VC appointments have been approved by the President for 12 central universities," an MoE official said.
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Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:13:59
Candy sticks and ice-cream sticks made of plastic may get phased out from January 1, 2022, the Centre informed Parliament on Friday.
Responding to a query on the phasing out schedule of single-use plastic, Minister of State for Environment Ashwini Choubey said as per the draft notification issued earlier this year, manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of some of the identif
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Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:09:07
Traffic on the Mumbai-Bengaluru national highway got disrupted on Friday after a stretch of road in Belgaum district of Karnataka got inundated, prompting the police in Maharashtra's Kolhapur to stop the vehicles going to the neighbouring state as a safety measure, officials said.
Rains continued to lash parts of Kolhapur, due to which the Panchganga river in the district is flowing above the d
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Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:06:53
More than 2.75 crore balance and unutilized COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states, UTs and private hospitals to be administered, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday.
Over 43.87 crore vaccine doses have been provided to states and UTs so far through all sources and a further 71,40,000 doses are in the pipeline, it said.
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Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:02:53
Congress, DMK and Shiv Sena MPs protested against the alleged Pegasus snooping controversy in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue inside Parliament premises on Friday.
The protesting MPs demanded a Supreme Court-monitored judicial probe in this matter.
The MPs carried banners with the slogan "#Pegausus Snoop Gate".
Earlier on Thursday, TMC MP Santanu Sen snatched the statement on Pegasus m
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Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:00:02
Attacking the Centre, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said Pegasus spyware is an Israeli classified weapon that the government has used against the institutions of the country.
"Pegasus is classified by the Israeli state as a weapon and that weapon is supposed to be used against terrorists. The Prime Minister and Home Minister have used this against the Indian state and against our insti
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