Fri, 18 Jun 2021 22:48:25
Karnataka reported 5,783 new COVID-19 cases and 168 fatalities on Friday, taking the total number of infections to 27.96 lakh and the toll to 33,602.
The day also saw 15,290 discharges, continuing to outnumber fresh cases, taking the total number of recoveries in the state so far to 26,25,447.
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Fri, 18 Jun 2021 22:27:26
Jailed Malayali journalist Siddique Kappan's ailing mother Khadeejakutty, 91, died at her residence near Vengara on Friday, his colleagues said.
Kappan was arrested in October last year while he was on his way to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh where a young Dalit woman had died after being allegedly gang-raped.
He had visited his ailing mother in February after the Supreme Court granted him five-d
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Fri, 18 Jun 2021 22:01:52
Former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Friday hit out at the ruling BJP for not taking up the issue of Mekedatu reservoir project due to internal squabbling in the party. In a series of tweets, he said the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin recently initiated steps to block the project that is detrimental to the interests of Karnataka.
"The measure of the Tamil Nadu government with respect
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Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:56:11
Studies among healthcare workers have shown that following vaccination the chances of hospitalisation reduce by 75-80 per cent, while oxygen requirement comes down to 8 per cent even after contracting Covid-19, the government said on Friday.
Addressing a press conference, NITI Aayog Member (Health) Dr V K Paul said in these studies, which have been conducted among healthcare workers who fall in
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Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:53:18
The Congress on Friday demanded that the government make a full disclosure of the nature of black money and names of the individuals who have stashed it in Swiss banks, and asked it to bring a white paper on how much of it has been brought back to the country in the last seven years.
Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh said the government should also come out with a complete list of measures t
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Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:49:58
The Supreme Court Friday refused to direct the medical universities to cancel or postpone the final year Post Graduate exams on the ground that the examinee-doctors have been engaged in COVID-19 duty.
A vacation bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and M R Shah said it cannot pass any general order to all the universities not to conduct or postpone the examination.
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Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:45:17
Amid a tussle between the Union government and Twitter over the new IT rules, members of a parliamentary panel on Friday strongly objected to Twitter India officials' observations that they abide by their policy and categorically told them that the rule of land is supreme.
According to sources, members of the Parliamentary Panel on Information Technology also asked Twitter why it should not be
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Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:40:55
Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Friday ruled out repealing the three new farm laws but said the government is ready to resume talks with protesting farmer unions on provisions of the legislations.
The government and unions have held 11 rounds of talks, the last being on January 22, to break the deadlock and end the farmers' protest.
Talks have not resumed following widespr
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Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:38:31
The Ministry of Education is expected to soon decide on conducting the two remaining editions of the engineering entrance examination JEE-Mains and the medical entrance test NEET in August, according to officials.
"The situation is being reviewed to decide on the schedule of the pending editions of JEE-Mains and whether NEET-UG can be conducted on August 1," a senior official said.
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