Sat, 19 Dec 2020 18:10:02
More than 11 lakh samples were tested for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking total number of tests conducted so far in the country to over 16 crore, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday.
The ministry, in a statement, said comprehensive and widespread testing on a sustained basis has resulted in bringing down the positivity rate.
According to the health ministry, 11,71,868 samples we
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Sat, 19 Dec 2020 18:03:43
Railways will run special daily trains between country's commerce capital Mumbai and port city Mangaluru from December 20.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus Mumbai- Mangaluru Junction Daily Superfast Special will leave Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus Mumbai at 2202 hrs daily from tomorrow and arrive Mangaluru at 1305 hrs the next day.
In the return direction, the train will depart fr
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Sat, 19 Dec 2020 18:01:33
An eight-year-old boy from Ujire, who was kidnapped on December 17 by a gang demanding a ransom of Rs 17 crore, was rescued from Kolar by the city police.
Anubhav, son of Bijoy and grandson of an ex-serviceman Shivan, had been abducted on Thursday evening by the occupants of an Indica car bearing yellow number plate.
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Sat, 19 Dec 2020 17:59:51
A school teacher, who has won medals in national-level swimming competitions, has made an attempt to enter record books by swimming in a Padmasana Yoga posture with his legs chained.
Nagaraj Kharvi, teaching in Kalmanja government higher primary school at Kundapur in Udupi district of Karnataka, attempted the feat on Friday. He reached his destination at the Tannirbhavi Beach by covering a dis
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Sat, 19 Dec 2020 17:55:41
Days ahead of India taking up a non-permanent seat at the UN Security Council, India and the UK have held discussions on issues that are on the world body's agenda with the Indian officials briefing their British counterparts about the country's priorities including reformed multilateralism and counterterrorism.
India and the UK held bilateral consultations on UNSC issues on Friday through the
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Sat, 19 Dec 2020 17:53:50
Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday that revolutionary Khudiram Bose is as much a pride for the whole of India as he is of Bengal, hitting out at those indulging in "narrow" politics of regionalism.
Garlanding the statue of Khudiram at the freedom fighter's ancestral residence here, Shah said that he has inspired the youths of the country with his slogan 'Vande Mataram' while he was hanged
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Sat, 19 Dec 2020 17:50:45
The Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party hit out at the BJP on Saturday over the farmers' protest against the agri-marketing laws.
SP president Akhilesh Yadav called the contentious laws a clamp for the farmers.
"The BJP didn't allow the farmers to have the slightest idea of the farm laws before making them. Now, they are pretending to make them understand the benefits of the legislat
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Sat, 19 Dec 2020 17:47:51
As farmer protests against new farm laws entered the 24th day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said reforms brought by his government six months ago have started benefiting farmers.
Speaking at an Assocham convention, Modi highlighted reforms spanning from the manufacturing sector to labour to say India has during the last six years emerged as the world's preferred destination for inve
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Sat, 19 Dec 2020 10:42:27
Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Shobha Karandlaje described the protests against the farm legislations as being done to oppose the BJP."These billes were debated at length in parliament, and all political parties participated in it.
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