PTI Days after Israeli-spyware Pegasus snooping case rocked the nation, the Supreme Court heard a clutch of petitions, including those filed by the Editors Guild of India. The court made it clear that “truth has to come out” in the matter. Read more Here’s more top news of the day: 1) COVID-orphaned Children Aged Up …
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A man was assaulted with iron rods and made to eat garbage from a bin in Jogeshwari in Mumbai. A video of the incident is doing rounds on social media. The incident had taken place in July and a Crime Branch Unit X team nabbed one of the accused, Abdul Khalid Malik Shaikh from a nearby railway station. Representational Image …
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India has reported 38,079 new cases and 560 deaths in the past 24 hours, active caseload at 4,24,025; recovery rate rises to 97.31%. Jump To Next 100-125 Days Are Critical For Averting 3rd Wave Kerala Records 13,750 New COVID-19 Cases, 130 Deaths Trend Of Rising Cases In Maharashtra, Kerala Cause Of Concern EU Medical Body Yet To Receive No Application …
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In a draft bill aiming to control the population, the UP government proposes to bar people with over two children from contesting local body elections, applying for and getting promotion in government jobs and availing government subsidies. But in a great irony, if these provisions of the draft Uttar Pradesh Population (Control, Stabilization and Welfare) Bill, 2021, are applied for …
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The death toll from a fire that tore through a COVID hospital in Iraq rose to 92, health officials said even as authorities faced accusations of negligence from grieving relatives and a doctor who works there, as per Reuters. Jump To What happened? Not the first such incident What happened? Over 100 others were wounded in the blaze, which an …
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1. Fall In Toll Slows As States Add Backlog Deaths BCCL The falling graph of the second Covid-19 wave in the country is showing signs of plateauing not just in fresh cases but also in deaths, with several states now openly or tacitly acknowledging previously unreported coronavirus fatalities and adding these to the toll, as per TNN. 2. Decision On …
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1. The UP State Law Commission on Friday released the first draft of the bill aimed at population control. The draft bill has provisions to debar people who have more than two children from the benefits of government schemes and perks to those who follow the two-child policy. There are additional incentives proposed for those who have or will have only one child. …
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One hundred people — including two police officers — were shot in Chicago over the long Fourth of July weekend, including 18 homicides, according to a report by news agency AP. Among those injured were at least a dozen children. None of them had died as of Tuesday morning, but at least three of the minors were in critical condition. …
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1. Targeted Vaccination Drive Better Strategy: ICMR Study PTI “Smart vaccination” approaches that target the vulnerable population — in the context of the Indian Covid-19 epidemic — make for a smarter public health choice than mass vaccination, a mathematical modeling-based analysis by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) says, as per TNN. …
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India has reported 48,415 new COVID-19 cases and 988 deaths in the past 24 hours, as the number of new infections is showing a slow increase in many states. Jump To Zydus Cadila Applies For Emergency Use Approval For Covid-19 Vaccine Govt Panel Recommends Against SII Conducting Trial Of Covovax On Children Aged 2-17 Himachal Pradesh Resumes Interstate Operation Of …
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