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There was a marginal dip in new coronavirus cases reported in the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi on Sunday. Combined tally of the districts was 466 cases on the day against 512 cases on Saturday.

The sarpanch and her husband have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the demolition of several under construction houses allotted to tribal families under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Gramin (PMAYG) in Balangir district, he said.

Although the monsoon is here, the city has not reported any dengue or malaria case so far. One of the reasons, healthcare workers say, is that people are being extra cautious because of the pandemic and local administrations are conducting sanitation drives regularly.

Haryana’s Covid-19 count on Sunday reached 47,153 with 743 new cases and the death toll in the state reached 538 deaths with 10 fresh casualties. As many as 662 patients were discharged from hospitals, pushing the overall recovery rate to 83.98% with the total reaching 39,601.

Vadodara (Gujarat) [India], August 16 (ANI) A crocodile was rescued from Rajmahal Road in Gujarat's Vadodara district by the Gujarat Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA) on Sunday.

Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar on Sunday recorded 79 new Covid-19 cases, pushing the district's caseload to 6,486, official data showed.

Pratap Chandra Sarangi, Union minister of state for MSME, has urged Union external affairs minister S Jaishankar to help 60 Odias staying in Kuwait to return home on Vande Bharat Mission (VBM) flights.

Even as Kasaragod district has made interstate movement restrictions more rigid by making RT-PCR test mandatory for daily commuters once in 21 days, Dakshina Kannada district administration has opened all of its border roads.

A city student has drawn a floral doodle on 6,055 sqft of paper in around 13 hours and 30 minutes, in an attempt to set a world record.

Noted entrepreneur, social, religious leader and founder chairman of B A Group, headquartered at Thumbay, Dr B Ahmed Hajee Mohiudeen passed away in a private hospital here on Sunday. He was 89.

Due to poor visibility at Hubballi airport, an Indigo flight landed after hovering in the sky for over an hour.

In a move to spread awareness against drug menace and to motivate the youth to stay away from drugs, the district administration in Patiala has constituted a district-level ‘Nasha Mukt Bharat Campaign Committee on the occasion of Independence Day. The committee has been formed as part of the commitment towards ‘drug-free Nation’.

As many as 23 prisoners of the Rajkot Central Jail in Gujarat have tested positive for coronavirus, a senior official said on Sunday.

Flag hoisting was witnessed across different societies in GB Nagar and Ghaziabad with residents exercising social distancing but the norms were a miss at some points and political events.

While the footfall at malls across NCR was 20-30% higher than other weekends, it was still nowhere close to previous years. With mall hopping not being on top of peoples' list anymore, many turned to online stores

Assam's Covid-19 tally surpassed the 75,000-mark with 1,057 fresh cases, while the death toll mounted to 182 as eight more people succumbed to the virus, minister for health and family welfare Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

The Noida health department, which has managed to flatten the Covid curve in the past month and a half, is gearing up to deal with a "second wave" of infection. The speculation about another surge in Covid cases has been reinforced by the return of migrant workers from various districts of Bihar and eastern UP that have a high caseload.

In January this year, 38 new posts were created in the Noida police commissionerate and 26 senior-level and 1,400 junior-level officers inducted into the force.