In an order, the new Pune Municipal Commissioner, Vikram Kumar, said that the coronavirus infection in the city is spreading very fast and the state government has empowered the civic administration to take all possible steps to stop it.

As against 24.08 crore bulk litres (bl) consumed in April-June 2019, the consumption was barely 9.89 crore bl this year. Senior excise officials and industry players indicate the recovery to 2019 consumption level may take a while.

While senior Congress leaders claim that there is no threat to the Rajasthan government, the crisis has prompted many leaders to recall the exit of Jyotiraditya Scindia and the fall of the Kamal Nath government in Madhya Pradesh just three months ago.

The family of the father and son reported arrested from Gwalior said they had been picked up on Thursday by the UP Police, while Dubey was still on the run.

Police had said that Dubey had fired at them from a weapon he had snatched from an officer after the vehicle, in which he was being moved to Kanpur, overturned Friday morning.

Oxygen therapy is crucial to clinical management of patients, especially to keep fatality rates under control.

The minister’s remarks came on the day Indian Army sources said Chinese troops have vacated the base at Finger 4 in Pangong Tso, and have thinned their strength somewhat on the ridgeline.

The Sunday Express has learnt that Gourangalal Das, currently Joint Secretary (Americas) in the Ministry of External Affairs, will be the next envoy to Taiwan.

That the “unlocking” has been patchy is reinforced by Google footfall data showing that while public mobility has improved in recent weeks across India, states that have higher infection rates are seeing curtailed public movement and economic activity.

“I am more likely to say something,” says former India No.1 tennis player, Somdev Devvarman. Especially, he says, when the issues that confront him demand it -- police brutality and racism.

The rise in the test-positivity ratio is also due to the fact that the government has not ramped up testing. The daily average Covid testing in the state has been hovering around 10,000-plus even as the cases are rising at a very high rate.

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Police claimed Dubey had fired at them from a weapon that he snatched from an officer after the vehicle in which he was being taken to Kanpur overturned on the highway on Friday morning.

Several people who were travelling on the highway complained that they were stopped by police and prevented from going ahead about 15 minutes before the alleged encounter took place.

Some of them, however, also called for a larger investigation into those who had “provided patronage” and “sheltered” the gangster.

For, as per records, Dubey is the 119th accused to have been killed in what police called cross-firing since the Yogi Adityanath government took charge in March 2017.

The Union Health Ministry on Friday flagged this as an issue of concern during a videoconference with states over Covid-19 response.

An example is the Karnataka government’s Ksheera Bhagya scheme, which offers free milk over and above the MDM food entitlement.

On July 6, The Indian Express, as part of a month-long series to understand the effect of Covid-19 and the lockdown in smalltown India, had reported on the plight of children of the Musahari tola, a Mahadalit colony, in Badbilla village.

In order to check the spread of infection from Surat, starting Friday, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) deployed antigen testing systems at an inter-district transit spot at the Vadodara-Ahmedabad Expressway tollgate junction near CTM crossroads, for those coming from Surat or through it

Metropolitan Region contributed to 126 of the 226 deaths. While Pune's overall toll stands at 835, the figure for Thane is 524. Aurangabad, Solapur and Navi Mumbai are nearing the 300-mark in Covid-19 deaths.

This clears the decks for another round of talks, especially on Pangong Tso where even after some thinning out, Chinese troops are still present in large numbers at Finger 4 on the northern banks of the lake.

Sources told The Indian Express that besides Ladakh, the Chinese have been pushing forward in many areas of east Sikkim and in Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh where they refuse to abide by the ‘watershed principle’ for the LAC.