Sat, 26 Jun 2021 19:09:33
India has achieved the milestone of conducting 40 crore COVID-19 tests, with the average of more than 18 lakh tests per day in the month of June, the ICMR said on Saturday. India has tested 40,18,11,892 samples across the country till Friday, it said.
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Sat, 26 Jun 2021 19:07:41
The Maharashtra unit of the BJP on Saturday held 'chakka jam' or road blockade protests across the state demanding restoration of reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBC) in local governing bodies which was quashed by the Supreme Court in March this year.
The party had announced that it would hold agitation at 1,000 locations across the state.
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Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:43:10
The private bus operators have promised to operate buses across the district from July 1 after their demands on hiking the ticket fare by 25 per cent was approved by the Udupi deputy commissioner on Friday.
Bus owners attending the meeting said, once the full occupancy was restored with the easing of the pandemic situation in the future, the bus fares will be reduced.
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Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:39:30
Agriculture minister B C Patil said that the government has plans to buy boiled rice grown in the coastal districts and to distribute it through the public distribution system (PDS) in the region.
The minister was speaking after inaugurating paddy cultivation on fallow land at Kunjathbail on Friday.
“We have launched this programme as a challenge in Dakshina Kannada, as the district has near
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Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:19:50
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday said that work is on to bring all opposition parties together at the national level, and this alliance will be incomplete without the Congress.
He said that the Congress will play an important role in the alliance that aims to provide a strong alternative to the present dispensation.
Raut's statements come four days after leaders of eight opposition
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Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:16:45
The 2021 men's T20 World Cup is slated to kick off from October 17 in the UAE two days after the Indian Premier League (IPL) final.
According to a report in ESPNcricinfo, the final of the T20 World Cup is scheduled for November 14.
ANI had earlier reported that the first game on resumption of IPL will be played on September 19 while the final will take place on October 15. The cash-rich league w
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Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:12:47
Goa-bound Rajdhani Express from Hazrat Nizamuddin derailed inside a tunnel in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra early on Saturday, but there was no report of injury to any passenger, an official said.
The train - 02414 - was going to Madgaon in Goa when it derailed inside Karbude tunnel, approximately 325 kms from Mumbai at around 4.15 am, a spokesperson of the Konkan Railway, which operates th
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Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:06:44
Indore and Surat were on Friday adjudged joint winners of the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry's Smart Cities Award 2020, while Uttar Pradesh secured the first position in the state awards category, tailed by Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
The awards were given based on a range of themes like social aspects, governance, culture, urban environment, sanitation, economy, built environment
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Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:00:59
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Friday submitted a memorandum to President Ram Nath Kovind urging him to direct the Centre to immediately repeal the three "anti-farmer laws".
Through its memorandum, the SKM said, it conveyed the "anguish and deep anger" of crores of farming families of the country to the president.
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