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India logged 1,68,063?new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,58,75,790?which includes 4,461 cases of the Omicron variant,?according to the?Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday The?active cases rose to 8,21,446,?the highest in 208 days, while the death toll climbed to?4,84,213?with 277 fresh fatalities, the data?updated?at 8 am stated Of the total 4,461 cases of the Omicron variant,?1,711?people have recovered or migrated so far Maharashtra recorded the maximum number of 1,247 cases followed by Rajasthan?at 645,?Delhi 546,?Karnataka?479 and?Kerala 350 The active cases comprise 2.29 per cent of…

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said there is no plan to impose a lockdown as of now in the city, and that there will be no need for it if people wear masks. He said that on Sunday, the city is likely to report 22,000 COVID-19 cases in 24 hours. He appealed to the public to wear masks and not panic. Rising COVID-19 cases are a matter of concern but there is no need to panic. Very few people are getting hospitalised. Wearing mask is very important. There…

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The daily rise in coronavirus infections was recorded above one lakh after 214 days, taking India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,52,26,386 which includes 3,007 cases of Omicron reported across 27 states and UTs, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. Out of the total Omicron cases reported so far, 1,199 people have recovered or migrated. Maharashtra recorded the maximum number of 876 cases followed by Delhi at 465, Karnataka 333, Rajasthan 291, Kerala 284 and Gujarat 204. The country saw a single day rise of…

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“They are even hacking my children’s Instagram accounts…Do they not have any other work?” Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had said in response to a question on Central agencies’ raids on political opponents and allegations of illegal phone surveillance. The Instagram accounts of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s children have not been hacked, official sources told NDTV on Wednesday. The initial investigation by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team CERT-In found that the accounts were not hacked, sources said. Ms Gandhi Vadra had alleged on Tuesday that the government has hacked the Instagram accounts…

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Desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib and Sikh temples is a highly emotive issue in Punjab and among Sikhs, who view the holy book as their 11th guru. A man was beaten to death by a mob after an alleged sacrilege attempt at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the police said on Saturday. According to reports, the man had jumped over the railing inside the Golden Temple during the daily evening prayer and tried to touch the sword kept in front of the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of…

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Shivpal Yadav, broke away from the Samajwadi Party ahead of the 2017 elections and formed his own party, has indicated for long that he is interested in an alliance. But there has been no reciprocation from his nephew Akhilesh Yadav. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, who is emerging as the big challenger to the BJP ahead of the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, has agreed to mend fences with his estranged uncle Shivpal Yadav. After a 45-minute meeting between the two in Lucknow, Akhilesh Yadav tweeted a picture of him…

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E Sreedharan was fielded by BJP as the CM candidate, but the party failed to win even one seat in the assembly elections. 90-year-old E. Sreedharan, popularly known as “Metro Man”, has said that he is no longer interested in active politics. This comes months after he had contested in Kerala’s assembly elections from the Palakkad constituency on a BJP ticket but lost. The party failed to win even one seat in the state.  “I won’t be in active politics. That time has passed. I haven’t given up (politics), but…

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The recordings – 84 of them – have been submitted by the Enforcement Directorate to a Delhi court to help nail Sukesh Chandrashekhar, who has been in jail since 2017. While a former billionaire is in jail, his wife spends hours on the phone discussing payments to obtain bail for him. She seems to believe that she is talking to senior government officials, including the Home Secretary of the country. She asks for a meeting with the Home Minister – and is told it will happen in due time if…

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Genome sequencing at this centre can take up to a maximum of 72 hours and an additional day or two for bioinformatic details when full capacity. Thiruvananthapuram:  After confirming the first case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, Kerala is running the genome sequencing tests on 30 more samples at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology in Thiruvananthapuram. As NDTV stepped into the laboratory – where the initial 8-hour preparatory work on the samples is done – the team members were seen wearing Personal Protective Equipment or PPE kits, working…

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