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India logs 1,675 Covid cases in a day, 31 deaths
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India logs 1,675 Covid cases in a day, 31 deaths

New Delhi, May 24: India's COVID-19 case tally rose by 1,675 to reach 4,31,40,068, while the number of active infections increased marginally to 14,841, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The death toll has climbed to 5,24,490 with 31 fatalities reported from...
Florence Nightingale Award for Odisha, Bengal nurses
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Florence Nightingale Award for Odisha, Bengal nurses

Berhampur/Alipurduar, May 23: Sibani Das, a nursing officer of state-run MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Odisha's Berhampur, has been selected for the National Florence Nightingale Award 2021. Smita Kar, another nurse working in a Public Health Centre in remote Tasati tea garden in...
DRDO report finds serious battery defects in EVs that caught fire
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DRDO report finds serious battery defects in EVs that caught fire

New Delhi, May 23: The Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) that was tasked with investigating into EV fire incidents by the Union Road Transport and Highways Ministry, has found serious defects in the batteries, including designs of the battery packs and modules. According to...
Active COVID-19 cases dip to 14,832
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Active COVID-19 cases dip to 14,832

New Delhi, May 23: India added 2,022 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,31,38,393, while the active cases dipped to 14,832, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll climbed to 5,24,459 with 46 fresh fatalities, the data...
Cong MP slams
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Cong MP slams 'bulldozer culture prevailing in parts of country'; says judiciary...

Bhopal, May 22: In an attack on the BJP, Congress MP Vivek Tankha has said the "bulldozer culture currently prevailing parts of the country" is undemocratic, and asked that if action was being taken against alleged offenders by razing their properties, then what was the use of the judicial system. ...
SC orders clubbing of FIRs in scam cases, says multiplicity of proceedings not in public interest
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SC orders clubbing of FIRs in scam cases, says multiplicity of proceedings not...

New Delhi, May 22: Observing that multiplicity of proceedings was not in "larger public interest", the Supreme Court has exercised its special power and allowed consolidation of multiple FIRs, the consequential trial to one court in Greater Noida in relation to the multi-crore rupees alleged 'Bike...
6-year-old boy falls into borewell in Punjab
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6-year-old boy falls into borewell in Punjab

Chandigarh, May 22: A six-year-old boy of a migrant labourer family fell into a 100-foot-deep abandoned borewell on Sunday in Punjab's Hoshiarpur district, police said. A rescue operation, comprising teams of the district administration, is under way, an official told IANS. The boy climbed a...
IIT-JEE to go global and be open to students from 25 nations, from US to Vietnam
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IIT-JEE to go global and be open to students from 25 nations, from US to Vietnam

New Delhi, May 22: IIT-JEE (IIT-Joint Entrance Exam) is set to go global with the Indian government planning to hold the exam in 25 countries, right from the US to Vietnam, simultaneously. In Kuala Lumpur and Lagos, these examinations were held last year. Earlier, with the cooperation of the...
Road crash in UP leaves 7 dead; PM announces Rs 2 lakh ex gratia for kin of deceased
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Road crash in UP leaves 7 dead; PM announces Rs 2 lakh ex gratia for kin of...

Siddharthnagar (UP), May 22: An SUV carrying a marriage party rammed into a stationary truck here, leaving seven people dead, police said on Sunday. The incident occurred on Saturday night near Katya village in Jogia Udaypur area. The SUV was carrying 11 people. While four people died on the...
Autorickshaw driver returns gold necklace worth Rs 1.6 lakh to passenger
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Autorickshaw driver returns gold necklace worth Rs 1.6 lakh to passenger

Berhampur (Odisha), May 22: A 35-year-old autorickshaw driver in Odisha's Ganjam district has won accolades for returning a gold necklace worth around Rs 1.6 lakh to a female passenger who had accidentally left it in his vehicle a few days ago. The autorickshaw driver, Pankaj Behera,...
Active COVID-19 cases in country dip to 14,955
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Active COVID-19 cases in country dip to 14,955

New Delhi, May 22: India logged 2,226 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,31,36,371, while the active cases dipped to 14,955, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The death toll climbed to 5,24,413 with 65 fresh fatalities, the data...
J-K tunnel collapse: Three more bodies recovered, search on for six others
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J-K tunnel collapse: Three more bodies recovered, search on for six others

Banihal/Jammu, May 21: Three more bodies were recovered from the debris of an under-construction tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway that collapsed recently, raising the death toll to four, officials said on Saturday. The operation to rescue nine labourers feared trapped under the...
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