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Two property dealers were shot dead at a residential society in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida with police suspecting a link to an old rivalry behind the act, officials said on Tuesday.

Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar on Tuesday recorded 236 new Covid-19 patients, the biggest single-day surge for the district which pushed its infection tally to 9,126, official data showed.

A major mishap was averted in Hubballi due to alertness of a Hubballi-Dharwad Bus Rapid Transit System (HDBRTS) bus driver who halted the bus which he was driving after suffering dizziness due to hyperglycaemia.

Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts of coastal Karnataka reported 621 fresh cases of coronavirus infection and 10 deaths on Tuesday.

The police booked two men who allegedly dragged an on-duty home-guard for 60-70 metre in their car after holding him from his arm and thrashed him in Pehowa city of Kurukshetra district on Monday.

Karnataka home minister Basavaraj Bommai, in a virtual ceremony, dedicated a new fire station at the newly formed Baindoor taluk in Udupi district to the state on Tuesday. This is the 214th fire station in the state and the fifth such facility in the coastal district after similar facilities in Udupi, Malpe, Karkala and Kundapur. The new fire station will be useful to cater to any emergency at Gangolli fishing harbour as well as Kollur Sri Mookambika temple.

The district on Tuesday recorded 98 new coronavirus cases and two deaths taking the tally to 4871 and toll to 47.

This will also enable the Chennai headquartered zonal railway to develop facilities in this coastal city and the goods shed area could well be utilised to set up coaching facilities, noted Thomas John, general manager, Southern Railway on Tuesday.

In a shocking incident, a 'sadhvi' was allegedly gang-raped by four men at an ashram in Jharkhand's Godda district, police said on Tuesday. Three of the accused have been arrested.

The Coimbatore city police on Tuesday arrested a 20-year-old migrant worker for murdering his friend at Avarampalayam here.

A man died while four others sustained injuries when a suspected vintage bomb exploded at Dimapur, the commercial hub of Nagaland.

Has the increase in the number of Covid-19 cases weakened the drive against plastic in the city? Officials say they were not able to implement the ban strictly, especially in restaurants and hospital canteens, where people prefer to have food and beverages only in disposable plates and cups.

Karnataka Education Minister Suresh Kumar has responded positively to Moodabidri Seer’s request to rectify the inconsistencies and discrepancies regarding Bhagwan Mahaveer and the Jain religion in the PU II history textbook in Kannada.

Karnataka BJP president Nalin Kumar Kateel is working from home and Twitter is his new virtual office. Ever since he was diagnosed positive for coronavirus on August 30, which he confirmed in a tweet, Nalin due to health conditions has largely remained incommunicado with the rest of the world, but for his tweets. Even the news of his discharge post-treatment from a private hospital in the city on Sunday was in the form of tweets.

Assam governor Prof Jagdish Mukhi on Monday presented the state’s views on implementation of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, urging the President and Prime Minister to set up two central government institutions in Assam.

A report released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has revealed that Assam has recorded 3,843 traffic accidents deaths in 2019, the highest in the northeast, followed by 271 people in Tripura and 176 in Meghalaya.

Assam has the seventh highest number of active Covid-19 cases in the country, according to a statement from the ministry of health and family welfare based on cumulative figures of all states till Sunday. While Assam’s active cases till Sunday stood at 28,273, its cumulative total of confirmed cases since the first reporting on March 31 has reached 1,25,459, which in terms of percentage to population is just 0.4%.

China on Monday once again claimed that Arunachal Pradesh is part of its territory in south Tibet region even as it denied having any knowledge on the five missing youths of the frontier state who were allegedly abducted by the PLA.

After remaining closed for almost six months owing to the novel coronavirus threat, Kamakhya temple management has planned to open the doors to its premises so that devotees can do ‘parikrama’ of the temple. However, the doors to the santum sanctorum of the shakti shrine will remain closed to avoid overcrowding.

Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) adviser Akhil Gogoi, who has been declared as the chief ministerial face of the organisation’s new political venture which will contest the 2021 assembly polls, called upon the All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) and Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) to form a united front against the BJP and Congress in the state.

In trouble for cash strapped Punjab government, more than 1,000 officers of the state excise and taxation department have gone on statewide mass casual leave from Monday to protest against arrests and FIRs by vigilance bureau (VB) against several officials on charges of bribery and corruption.

With Covid fatalities going up, Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Monday announced a threemonth extension of term for all retiring doctors and specialists less than 60 years of age. He also asked chief secretary Vini Mahajan to expedite the process of recruitment of technicians and lab assistants for coping with the exponential demand in view of the increasing number of Covid cases.

Actor Sabyasachi Mishra has been in the news during the lockdown for his relentless effort in bringing migrants home. Even though he was busy in his endeavour to help people, he managed to shoot for a film just when the unlock process started.

A seven-year-old boy in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur is climbing walls like the Marvel superhero character Spider-Man. Yasharth Singh Gaur, a class three student, told that he got the inspiration to climb walls without support after he saw the movie 'Spider-Man'.