Category: NATIONAL NEWS

The daily COVID-19 count in India remained below the one-lakh mark for the fourth consecutive day with the country reporting 91,702?fresh cases, while the daily positivity rate dropped to?4.49 per cent,?according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday With the fresh cases, the total tally of cases has climbed to 2,92,74,823. However, recoveries continue to outnumber daily new cases for 29th consecutive day. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 2,77,90,073, the data stated. The COVID-19?death toll climbed to?3,63,079 with?3,403? fresh deaths,?while the…

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India-Australia Ties: The two sides discussed a range of issues relating to emerging technologies in the cyber domain at the first meeting of the India-Australia Joint Working Group (JWG) on cyber security cooperation, according to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). India and Australia on Thursday agreed to broad-base cooperation in the spheres of the digital economy and cyber-enabled critical technologies, noting the need to strengthen the security of critical information infrastructure such as 5G telecom networks. The two sides discussed a range of issues relating to emerging technologies in…

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India-Indonesia Ties: The review was carried out at a virtual meeting between Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan and Indonesia’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Mahendra Siregar. India and Indonesia on Thursday agreed to further strengthen their comprehensive strategic partnership while reviewing the bilateral ties in a wide range of areas. The review was carried out at a virtual meeting between Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan and Indonesia’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Mahendra Siregar. “During the meeting, both leaders reviewed India-Indonesia bilateral relationship, spanning…

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Opposition Congress-led UDF on Tuesday slammed the Left government in Kerala over its decision to renovate Cliff House, the official residence of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan spending nearly one crore rupees at a time when the state was reeling under acute financial crunch. Raising the issue in the Assembly, P T Thomas (Congress) sought to know how the government’s declared policy of financial austerity and spending whopping amount for the ‘refurbishing’ of the CM’s bungalow would go together. “The finance minister has ensured the House that he would implement financial…

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India reported 1,20,529 fresh COVID-19 cases, the lowest single-day rise in infections in around two months, taking the infection tally to 2,86,94,879, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. The death toll from COVID-19 climbed to 3,44,082 with 3,380 new fatalities, while the number of active cases was recorded below 20 lakh for the fifth consecutive day, the data updated at 8 am showed. The daily new cases are the lowest in 58 days, the ministry said. A total of 20,84,421 tests were done on Friday, taking…

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Kerala has retained the top rank in Niti Aayog’s SDG India Index 2020-21, while Bihar has been adjudged as the worst performer, according to a report released on Thursday The Index for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) evaluates progress of states and union territories on social, economic and environmental parameters Kerala retained its rank as the top state with a score of 75. Both Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu took the second spot with a score of 74 Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam were the worst performing states in this year’s India…

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 US-based Google LLC has contended that India’s new IT rules for digital media are not applicable to its search engine, and urged the Delhi High Court on Wednesday to set aside its single judge order which applied them on the company while dealing with an issue related to removal of offending content from the internet. The single judge’s decision had come while dealing with a matter in which a woman’s photographs were uploaded on a pornographic website by some miscreants and despite court orders the content could not be removed…

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The single day rise in coronavirus cases in India fell below the 2-lakh mark for the second time this month taking?the total tally of COVID-19 cases to?2,75,55,457 out of which 2,48,93,410 patients have recuperated, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday A total?of 1,86,364?new?coronavirus infections were reported in a day, the lowest in around 44 days,?while the death toll climbed to?3,18,895?with?3,660?daily deaths and the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 90.34 per cent, the data updated at 8 am showed The daily COVID-19 count in India…

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There is no reason to believe that children will be disproportionately affected by the coronavirus in the coming weeks and months or in the next wave, the head of a government working group said, but stressed on the need for additional resource inputs to improve the paediatric Covid services. In an interview with PTI, Dr N K Arora, Chairman of India’s COVID-19 Working Group of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI), said Indian data does not show specific predilection of the currently circulating virus strains either for the…

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A deep depression over the Bay of Bengal has intensified into cyclonic storm ‘Yaas’ and is likely to cross the Odisha-West Bengal coasts on May 26 after turning into a very severe cyclonic storm, the MeT Department said on Monday. ‘Yaas’ is likely to cross the Odisha-West Bengal coasts between Paradip and Sagar Islands around noon on May 26 as a very severe cyclonic storm with wind speeds of 155-165 kmph, Kolkata’s Regional Meteorological Centre Deputy Director Sanjib Bandopadhyay said. The system lays 540 km south-southeast of Paradip in Odisha…

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