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Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday said state like Odisha will get benefit from extension of the food security scheme 'Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana' till end of November.

A SSLC student, two inter-district bus crew, a cloth store merchant was among nine persons who tested positive in Udupi on Tuesday. On a day 53 fresh coronavirus cases were reported in erstwhile undivided Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi also logged its third fatality to the pandemic with a 48-year-old liver cirrhosis patient who had returned from Mumbai succumbing to the disease and swabs confirming him positive post-death.

One new case of Covid-19 reported positive while one patient got discharged after reporting negative in Kurukshetra district on Tuesday, told district civil surgeon Dr Sukhbir Singh.

The forest department in Ambala district recently got about 164 acres of forest land vacated from the illegal possession of zimmidars (landlords) spread across four villages of Naraingarh sub-division in Ambala district, told the forest officials.

Irrawaddy dolphins were sighted in Palur canal in Ganjam district after a few decades. This canal connects Chilika lake with Rushikulya river mouth off Ganjam coast. This new development have brought cheer among wildlife activists and local people.

A high-level drama was witnessed during demolition drive being carried out by Ludhiana Improvement Trust (LIT) where one of the encroachers allegedly slapped and manhandled an engineer.

The Crime Investigation Agency (CIA)-I of Kurukshetra police on Monday arrested a man after recovering 300 gram opium from his possession.

A team of scientists from the Bombay Natural History Society, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies, Modern College, Pune, and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research – Pune, has described a new genus and species of freshwater fish from the Western Ghats.

Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said the lockdown in Guwahati and its surrounding areas in Kamrup (Metro) district which started from Monday is a "do-or-die battle" against Covid-19 in the city.

The organic farmers' market in Shivamogga in Karnataka has seen a rise in the demand for organic fruits and vegetables in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Odisha government is yet to come to a decision on the pending higher secondary (Plus II) exams pushing the career of lakhs of students into uncertainty. A high-level meeting was held at Lokseva Bhawan on Monday to decide on the pending exams under the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) in the state. However, the meeting remained inconclusive after hours of deliberations.

Police on Monday arrested a 24-year-old youth in Kendrapada district on charges of dumping a 21-year-old girl after promising to marry her. The accused Babu Sethi of village Sankhapur under Tantiapala marine police station allegedly maintained physical relationship with the girl for the last six months.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast yellow warning for rainfall in eight districts for the next 48 hours.

In the wake of rising Covid-19 infection among police personnel in the state, chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday charted out a 10-point strategy to be followed in July.

After invading rural landscapes, swarms of locust rushed towards residential pockets of Kanpur early on Tuesday morning.

Two SSLC students, who are primary contacts of Covid-19 positive cases from Arsikere in Hassan, were unable to write the science paper on Monday as they were sent to a quarantine centre on Sunday evening. Though these two students have tested negative, they will not be allowed to write the rest of the exams as their second Covid test needs to be done. The two students had written the Maths paper on Saturday.

Observing that the refusal to wear ‘shaka’ (conch shell bangle) and ‘sindoor’ (vermillion) as per customs by a Hindu married woman amounted to her refusal to accept the marriage, the Gauhati High Court has granted divorce to a man.

Mangalureans, who arrived at Kannur International Airport (KIA) in a chartered flight from Dubai, were denied quarantine facilities by the authorities in Kerala.