In most cases, WCD department, police and district, taluka and village level child protection committees have been receiving alerts or calls are being received by helplines like CHILDLINE including from the minor girls.

The day was especially good for the Sainik School, Kapurthala as two of its former students won trophies — Jasnoor Singh was awarded with the Chief of Air Staff Trophy and declared the ‘Best in Flying’ and his batchmate Jagdeep Singh declared the ‘Best in Aerobatics’.

Though competitive sport has resumed in different parts of the world without spectators and with stringent regulations — the English, German and Spanish football leagues, for instance — it was back to pre-Covid days in Auckland, and Dunedin the day before.

Patel replaces former bureaucrat Vijay Kelkar, who chaired NIPFP for almost six years. He is scheduled to join June 22 and will have a four-year tenure, NIPFP said in a statement.

While NCP co-chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ and some 30 central leaders were told to be present at the party office in Kathmandu, 70 delegates from the provinces were seated at designated places in the Capital.

While Gandhi said the all-party move came late, Mamata Banerjee said the meeting sent a good message, as it showed the country was united behind its soldiers.

The Delhi government termed the order as “arbitrary”, and said it will “seriously harm” people. It said the new policy would discourage people from getting tested and further strain the city’s already overstretched medical infrastructure and health workers.

The Chinese statement came on a day several foreign governments — the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, and the Maldives — expressed their condolences on the killing of 20 Indian soldiers.

Following the Prime Minister’s remarks that no one had intruded into Indian territory, CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury said: “Then there is no conflict? Why have our brave soldiers been martyred? Why this all-party meeting?”

From Rs 24,000-25,000 for isolation beds, the rates have been reduced to Rs 8,000-10,000. For ICU beds without ventilator, the rates have been reduced from Rs 34,000-43,000 to Rs 13,000-15,000. ICU beds with ventilators, which earlier cost Rs 44,000-54,000 a bed a day, have been recommended to be charged at Rs 15,000-18,000 a bed a day.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh too weighed in and sought answers while former Generals that The Indian Express spoke too had their own observations on practices on the Line of Actual Control, clauses in border agreements and the implementation on the ground.

Earlier this week, Primus Super Speciality Hospital lodged a complaint with the district authorities and police against its nurses, accusing them of “abandoning patients”.

He said the Chinese side “unilaterally attempted to change the status quo”, took “premeditated and planned action” and was “directly responsible” for the casualties suffered by “both sides”.

India-China Galwan faceoff: The talks, however, have not yet led to further disengagement or de-escalation at various faceoff locations on the Ladakh border.

This will deepen the boundary row with India which has already rejected Nepal’s claim to the areas of Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, saying it is “violative of our current understanding to hold talks on outstanding boundary issues”.

A Chinese engineering major is set to lose a significant contract with the Indian Railways, and the Department of Telecommunications has conveyed to state-owned BSNL not to use Chinese-made equipment in its upgradation, top sources in both sectors said on Thursday.

In a phone call Wednesday afternoon, Jaishankar underlined that this would have a “serious impact” on the bilateral relationship. “The need of the hour was for the Chinese side to reassess its actions and take corrective steps,” the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement.

For the tribal family of paddy farmers from Gidhali village in Charama block in Kanker, there was no hesitation in sending their eldest son for a career in Army.

Jain was first tested after he reported to the hospital with 101°F fever and 92% oxygen saturation levels.

Modi urged states with a heavy load of Covid cases to focus on testing by utilising their full capacity, quick tracing, tracking and isolating those affected, as a strategy to contain the virus spread.

Bengaluru Covid-19 update: Epidemiologists say central to Bengaluru's Covid-19 control programme has been its continuing practice of quarantining positive cases and identifying contacts within 24 hours of a positive test result.

Meanwhile, the Chief Minister will hold a video conference meeting with state officials to review the Covid-19 situation and Amphan relief work in the state.

The Yogi Adityanath administration has not declared where SSP Satyarth Aniruddha Pankaj, who got admitted to a hospital in the city later in the night, will be posted next. He has been kept on the waiting list while the 13 others transferred along with him were given their new assignments.

Santosh’s parents said they were proud that “he sacrificed his life while protecting the nation”.