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Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Ripun Bora on Monday said Congress’s "five guarantees" are getting widespread support from people across all constituencies.

The AIUDF supremo and perfume baron, Badruddin Ajmal’s latest tweet, expressing readiness to support a Congress chief minister after May 2 (counting day), has made the grand old party breathe a sigh of relief as it has vowed to the people a ‘bhumiputra’ would be made the chief minister in the event of the grand alliance coming to power in Assam

State home minister Basavaraj Bommai refused to comment on a letter purportedly written by the woman involved in the sex CD scandal to the chief justice of the Karnataka high court.

Odisha's Covid-19 caseload mounted to 3,40,402 on Monday after 208 people tested positive for the virus, while one more fatality pushed the death toll to 1,921, a health department official said.

The police registered a case for assaulting Nambiraj, abusing him using foul language and attempting to murder him by running him over with a car. The police said they were investigating the case.

Although Holi was celebrated almost a fortnight before the lockdown was clamped across the entire country, the fear of Covid-19 resulted in celebrations being slightly muted in the twin cities.

One in every 10 individuals who went to work overseas from India in the past five years was from Tamil Nadu. The state sent the second highest number of workers abroad during this period. Kerala had the highest number of workers going abroad.

The urge to acquire knowledge drove this 37-year-old government primary schoolteacher and mother of two to complete her BA course by securing ninth rank from Mangalore University.

The sex CD scandal took a dramatic turn on Sunday when a crowd of 500 people gathered in front of Belagavi airport to gherao KPCC president DK Shivakumar. Despite tight security arrangements, a few of them managed to hurl stones and slippers at the convoy.

Noida police claim to be probing the role of two unidentified men who they suspect are the masterminds behind the multi-crore MBBS fraud. The duo operated by liasioning with the staff of government medical colleges in Banda and Allahabad to arrange meetings of their targets — students and their parents — inside the premises, officials said.

The state government has set the Gautam Budh Nagar administration a target of vaccinating 1.6 lakh people in the next round of the drive from April 1, when those aged above 45 would be inoculated.

A government school in Jacobpura and some parents whose children study in the institution filed a police complaint on Saturday against a local food vendor who allegedly employed a few students at his stall.

Residents of BPTP Park Serene in Sector 37 D have alleged non-compliance of department of town and country planning (DTCP) directions by the developer of the society. The residents complained that even after three months, the developer has failed to complete the construction of the boundary wall alongside the revenue road which is posing a serious security risk.

An auto driver died after a speeding car hit his vehicle from behind at a junction near Artemis Hospital on Saturday.

The city on Sunday witnessed the highest single-day spike of the year with more than 324 new Covid cases. This is close to what Gurugram recorded in an entire week when this month began, ie. 342 cases.​

With over 275 active Covid cases in each district, the number of patients seeking hospital beds is also on the rise. According to official data, the numbers have risen steadily this month and although there is no crisis of hospital beds now, officials are worried about the trend.

Schools and colleges across the state are fuelling the surge in Covid-19 cases with clusters breaking out on campuses, leading to many of them being declared containment zones. As a result, many parents wantt the government to scrap on-campus classes and resume online and Vidyagama lessons.

With 15,365 cases in the seven days between March 22 and 28, weekly Covid-19 cases in Karnataka crossed the 12,000-mark for the first time since mid-November, the surge coming amidst a clamour for caution by experts and the Centre.