At a meeting of the state health functionaries with the MoHFW, several issues were flagged by the latter, including the observation about districts of Gandhinagar, Vadodara and Rajkot where half the patients who succumbed to Covid-19 died within 48 hours of detection of the infection or hospitalisation.

The government-appointed scientific committee has not spelt out the possible reasons for the decline in coronavirus numbers. But two of its members offered insights into what could be happening.

The Governor’s letter came a day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in an interview to CNN-News 18 that the demand for President’s rule in Bengal by BJP workers was “wajib (just)”, given the law and order situation, while adding that any action by the Centre would be as per the Constitution.

Among the eight funding rounds of $100 million and above in Indian start-ups during April-September, five involved ed-tech companies like Byju’s, Vedantu, Unacademy and Eruditus.

Badminton’s resumption has been hardly smooth after the big comeback, Thomas Uber Cup, was aborted due to withdrawals. Scaling back, the Badminton World Federation managed to keep the Denmark Open on schedule, more as a trial run than a full-fledged show.

Kerala Health Minister K K Shailaja sought to play down the Union Minister's comments on “negligence” during Onam, saying he had not criticised the state but was “alerting other states to take steps to avoid gatherings, which had happened in Kerala during the Onam celebrations”.

A government-appointed committee of scientists said that their modelling exercise had also shown that the lockdown, particularly its timing in the third week of March, had a significant impact in slowing the spread of the disease, and preventing coronavirus-related deaths.

UT administration says will empower third tier; PDP’s Naeem Akhtar calls it end of politics

The study was conducted in Ladakh from the north of Ladakh’s capital, Leh, to the Tso Moriri lake, a distance of 213 kilometres. A low-intensity earthquake in 2010 near the village of Upshi in Ladakh, which falls on the fault line, can now be attributed to a thrust rupture, the study said.

Police found a three-page suicide note written by Dharampal (40), which detailed the difficulties he had faced during the lockdown, imposed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The proposed measures are part of a report circulated after an internal review of existing practices. Titled ‘Optimisation of Manpower and Resources: Review of Practices and Facilities in Indian Army', the exercise was conducted earlier this year.

The family, who belongs to the Bhil tribe, had moved to the village from Madhya Pradesh eight years ago and had been staying on and cultivating their landlord's banana farm.

Bharat Raval and Dalit lawyer Devji Maheshwari had had a heated argument over phone about the latter’s social media posts just days before the former stabbed him to death in Rapar town of Kutch on September 25, police said on Saturday.

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Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had announced the grant and other incentives — such as discounts on application fees for permissions from fire brigade and power distribution companies — for each of the 36,946 Durga Puja committees in the state on September 24.

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Its residents say that until now, with the village seeing so much work, there has been unanimity among residents, cutting across caste, throwing their weight behind Kumar in polls. But this time, cracks are appearing in that edifice.

Upadhyay, a resident of Pune and a native of Ballia in UP, had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from his native constituency as an Independent candidate.

In a coordinated move involving the US Department of Justice (DoJ), the Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI) on Friday raided several locations in the six towns and cities where the call centres at the heart of the alleged “technical support fraud” were based.

According to officegoers, massive traffic congestions are witnessed on roads leading to Shilphata junction, Kongaon and Patripol bridge. “The vehicles are stranded for hours on these stretches,” says Bharat Shah, a resident of Dombivali.

This is not the first time that the state government and railways have squared off over train services during the pandemic. Both had differed over starting special trains to facilitate movement of people to districts in Konkan for Ganesh Chaturthi in August.

The Union Minister underlined that he has not got any “reasonable explanation” from his Chinese counterpart on China's behaviour along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. Jaishankar also pointed to divergences with Beijing on “political issues” and “the relationship with Pakistan”.

The family alleged Singh's security was withdrawn despite their complaints to police about threats that they had been receiving.

As per the application filed by the man’s family, Abdul Gani Kapadia, a resident of Navsari, was on his way to buy medicines on August 26, 2019, when he was attacked by a stray donkey, following which he fell on the road, damaging his hip bone.