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Delhi: Woman accomplice of gangster Kala Jathedi also held

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A day after the arrest of gangster Sandeep alias Kala Jathedi, Delhi Police announced on Saturday that it had arrested his woman accomplice too. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/2VcbwPx

Safety worries after fresh cracks on Dwarka E-way

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Cracks on a deck slab of an under-construction elevated segment of the Dwarka Expressway triggered concern after photos of the slab began circulating widely. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ffUaYK

Delhi-NCR breaching ozone limits more often: Study

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Ground-level ozone — a highly reactive gas that is particularly dangerous for those with respiratory conditions and asthma — is becoming more widespread in Delhi and the rest of National Capital Region. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/3C2lF1O

Delhi: Covishield 1st dose back from Monday

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Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that 1 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines had been administered in Delhi so far. This includes 74 lakh first doses and almost 50% of the eligible population of Delhi have been vaccinated with at least one dose. Over 26 lakh people are fully vaccinated. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/2V8FLH2

‘Sorry Ma’: Boy spends Rs 40,000 on online game, kills self

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Holding minor’s hand not sexual harassment: Pocso court

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Danish’s body was mutilated in Taliban custody: Officials

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After losing cabinet berth, Babul says ‘Alvida politics’

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Change public’s poor perception of police: PM to IPS probationers

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Jharkhand CM recommends CBI probe into judge’s death

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J&K eyes Unesco tag with Mughal Gardens facelift

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‘Not even 5% of India’s grasslands protected’

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17 Maharashtra villages voluntarily opt for lockdown

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Cases top 40k for 5th day in a row, Kerala still driving surge

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Kerala reported more than 20,000 fresh Covid-19 cases for the fifth day running while the rising trend in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka continued, as India logged more than 42,000 new cases of the virus on Saturday. For the fifth straight day, India’s daily count stayed over the 40,000-mark as 42,052 were recorded on Saturday. Kerala accounted for 20,624 new cases, while Maharashtra logged 6,959. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3idW5yN

Amid LAC row, Leh boosts oxygen infrastructure in forward areas

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Amid continued stand-off with China, the Leh administration is augmenting oxygen supply in the forward areas by adding new plants, a move that will boost the fight against Covid-19 in ‘zero-mile’ villages and far-flung settlements along northern and eastern Ladakh. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3fAcTyD

Districts hit by 2nd Covid wave may not see intense 3rd wave: ICMR

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Districts that were severely impacted by the second Covid wave may not see an equally intense third wave, an analysis by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said. Experts from the top science body said states should conduct district-level heterogeneity assessments — that include variations in spread and population — to plan public health measures based on local data. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/37cU2Vu

Parliament worked for 18 hours out of 107 in 2 weeks

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As the deadlock over the Pegasus controversy continues in Parliament, the two Houses are heading towards a less productive zone in terms of business with more than 85% of working hours being wasted in the first two weeks of the session. Of the possible 107 hours in the past two weeks, Parliament has functioned merely for 18 hours, wasting 89 hours because of ongoing disruptions due to the deadlock over the opposition demand for a discussion and inquiry into the Pegasus affair. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/2WL6zhb

Kharif sowing hits ‘normal’ level as rainfall deficit dips

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As the cumulative monsoon rainfall over the country touches almost ‘normal’ level with the deficit reduced to less than 1% on Saturday, the overall acreage of Kharif (summer-sown) crops in India crossed the ‘normal’ sown area threshold by over 8 lakh hectares. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3liQlpp

Court backs CBI’s clean chit to Sengar in Unnao girl’s car crash

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A Delhi court on Saturday said it had “no hesitation in holding the findings” of the CBI’s final report, which said there was no case against jailed former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar to proceed against him for the offence of murder in an accident case, as correct. Currently, Sengar is serving a life sentence for raping a minor girl in Unnao in 2017. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3BXslOR

HC pulls up NIA judge for not hearing bail plea for 6 months, sets date

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A delay of six months in hearing the bail plea of a 60-year-old man jailed under the stringent UAPA law has prompted the Delhi high court to fix a date for the special judge to hear it. A bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Anup J Bhambhani took a dim view of the failure of the special NIA judge, Patiala House, to take up the bail plea filed in February this year, despite a direction by HC earlier to decide it expeditiously. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3jc0Yru

Covid-19: Centre wants stricter containment in 10 states with high positivity

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Concerns over dependence on home isolation and failure to impose micro-containment zones have prompted the Centre to advise that 46 districts in 10 states reporting above 10% positivity rate need to impose strict restrictions on movement of people and gathering of crowds. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rKW6gO

Pulwama attack key conspirator, aide killed in J&K encounter

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NIA conducts raids across J&K in two terror cases

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‘CRPF commandos from Kashmir to be put on Assam-Mizoram border’

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Now, Assam & Mizoram spar over drug menace

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Madras high court caps school fees at 85% of last year’s charges

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Deshmukh seeks shield from arrest by ED, SC to hear plea

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Covid-19: All universal vaccine programmes to be linked to CoWin

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Supreme Court seeks report from Jharkhand on judge killing

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Rising number of attacks on judges and lawyers compelled a worried Supreme Court on Friday to take suo motu cognisance of the alleged killing of Dhanbad additional district judge Uttam Anand and order the Jharkhand chief secretary and the DGP to submit the status of the investigations within a week. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3zYkeQd

292 kids who lost parents to Covid registered for PM Cares assistance

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The government on Friday informed Parliament that 292 children have been registered by states and Union territories till July 29 on the portal, created under PM Cares, for the scheme meant to provide support to children who have lost their parents, surviving parent, adoptive parent or legal guardian due to Covid-19. It also informed the House that 87 children living in childcare institutions have been affected by Covid-19, as per data collected till July 23. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3BSZAml

Supreme Court to hear next week journos’ pleas on Pegasus row probe

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Opposition stalls Parliament; Pegasus ‘non-issue’, says minister

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Covid-19: Over 2 lakh pregnant women take first dose in a month

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In a major boost for the vaccination programme, over 2.3 lakh pregnant women have received first dose of anti-Covid jabs in less than a month since vaccination against the infection was allowed for them, the government said. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3laHztP

Covid-19: Tamil Nadu cluster infections up, a cause for worry

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India’s 7-day average of Covid cases crosses 40,000 again

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Kerala reported a slight drop in fresh Covid-19 cases on Friday but numbers rose for the second straight day in Tamil Nadu even as India’s daily case count dipped marginally but remained above 41,000 for the fourth day running. India reported 41,454 fresh cases of the virus on Friday, down from 44,681 on the previous day, breaking a three-day streak of rising infections in the country. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3lciBdx

Mizoram CM says no harm to anyone, but armed cops stay put

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Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga has assured that there will be “no restrictions” and “no harm” to non-Mizos entering the state. However, the CM’s assurance on Friday coupled with his reiteration from his Twitter handle that “NorthEast India Will Always Be One” came even as his government refused to withdraw its armed policemen deployed at Vairengte town on the outskirts of Cachar (Assam) border. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3BZMe7B

NSO has blocked Pegasus use by some governments: Reports

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Israeli surveillance software company NSO Group has temporarily blocked several government clients around the world from using its Pegasus spyware as the company investigates its possible misuse, Washington-based non-profit media outlet NPR reported. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3xp9hFL

Mizoram front still tense, Assam holds border talks with Nagaland

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Now, communists turn to Ram to counter Parivar

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China seizes maps showing Arunachal as part of India

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In U-turn, Goa health minister says no deaths due to oxygen shortage in state

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In a major U-turn on the floor of the assembly, Goa health minister Vishwajit Rane, who was the first to announce that many Covid-19 patients were dying in the state due to oxygen interruption at the state’s premier hospital Goa Medical College (GMC) during the second wave, on Friday denied any oxygen shortage-related deaths. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3zKtgAa

Only 31% of Delhi’s informal workers got rations, 54% still have no ration cards: CPM survey

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Days after hexacopter shot down by cops, UAVs spotted in Akhnoor and Samba

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Mizoram Boundary committee asks people for support in fight for 'forefather's land'

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Chhattisgarh Assembly disallows tabling of BJP MLA's anti-conversion Bill

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VIP phone number racket busted; 3 held

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Alleged killing of lawyer & judge attack on justice dispensation system, says HC

On Thursday, a division bench of Chief Justice Dr Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad heard the matter of Anand’s death. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/378HVZE

BJP evasive on Pegasus, to blame for logjam: Congress

Congress on Thursday blamed BJP for the logjam in Parliament and said the government was “avoiding” discussion on the use of Pegasus spyware since it has “much to hide”. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/378HRsS

Celebs among 250 hit in sextortion racket

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Mamata asks Gadkari for more infra projects

Banerjee told reporters after the meeting, “I requested Gadkari-Ji that it will be good if we get a manufacturing unit in our state to make electric vehicles.” from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3f8FM4u

Senior ministers reach out to opposition, but no breakthrough in sight

He said the government had already agreed to hold a debate on all issues and wondered why the opposition parties were running away. “Government representatives have reached out to the opposition on several occasions as it wants Parliament to function smoothly,” the BJP leader said. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3BRTnHb

BJP-led northeast alliance stays off border row

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Act against Moitra for her ‘unethical behaviour’: BJP MP

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BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Thursday alleged in Lok Sabha that TMC member Mohua Moitra had used derogatory remarks against him during a parliamentary committee meeting on Wednesday. The MP from Godda raised the issue during Zero Hour, saying that the term used by the TMC MP was an insult inflicted on the entire Hindi-speaking people from UP, Bihar and Jharkhand. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/378U6G0

Covid-19 surge prompts Centre to send team to Kerala

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In the wake of a sharp and persistent increase in daily new Covid cases in Kerala, the Centre has sent a high level team to the southern state to support in the effective public health interventions in order to contain the infection spread. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3l5vbey

Army chief Naravane and sr US commander Clarke talk to boost ties

The two generals also discussed “issues of mutual interests”, which is likely to have included the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan in wake of the rapid advances being made by the Taliban to grab territory there, said an official. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3f7vVMw

Eye on 2023 polls, Karnataka CM may have 5 deputies

With the 2023 assembly elections in focus, the new Karnataka chief minister, Basavaraj Bommai, is likely to opt for five deputy chief ministers and induct six to eight young new faces in his cabinet which can have a maximum of 34 members. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3BREWTw

PM Modi focuses on tech education in mother tongue in NEP speech

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This emphasis on mother tongue as the medium of instruction will instil confidence in the students from poor, rural and tribal backgrounds. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3laWBQ4

Mizoram bunkers, Assam build-up raise tensions on disputed border

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Bunkers built by suspected Mizo trespassers just across the inter-state boundary in Barak Valley’s Karimganj district and an allegedly massive mobilisation of state forces by Assam to counter the move kept the border pot boiling for the fourth successive day since the violence in Cachar last Monday. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3labvX1

Tamil Nadu withdraws 90 defamation cases targeting media outlets

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New normal? Parliament does business amid din

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Over 9 lakh kids, most from UP, acutely malnourished

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Over 9.3 lakh severely acute malnourished children between six months and six years have been identified in the country till November. Out of this number, Uttar Pradesh accounted for over 4 lakh such children. This data was shared by the women and child development ministry in response to a question in Rajya Sabha. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3xclPA3

391 plaints of sex harassment from ministries, RS told

The ministry of women and child development informed Rajya Sabha on Thursday that out of these 391 complaints, about 150 were received since January 1, 2020. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3f9wC83

34 Metro, Rapid rail projects under implementation across country

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No manual scavenging deaths in last five years, govt tells House

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Dalit children more likely to be stunted, shows study

A data narrative published by Ashoka University’s Centre for Economic Data and Analysis shows that stunting is much more likely among Dalit children in areas where caste-based untouchability is higher, such as the BIMARU states (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh). from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rElwgg

2.8K PILs on fundamental rights violation pending in Supreme Court: Govternment

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The minister, in a written reply to a query, said about 3,036 such PILs have been filed since 2019. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3zOL6St

Student rush: Air India doubling flights to US from August 7

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