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India reports 1,326 new Covid cases, 8 deaths
The new fatalities increased the overall death toll to 5,29,024. The active caseload at 17,912 accounts for 0.04 per cent of the country's total positive cases. The recovery of 1,723 patients in the last 24 hours took the cumulative tally to 4,41,06,656. Consequently, India's recovery rate stands at 98.77 per cent. Meanwhile, the daily and weekly positivity rates stood at 1.59 per cent and 1.08 per cent, respectively.
Death toll in Morbi bridge collapse reaches 141: Police official
The toll was confirmed to the media by Rajkot Range Inspector General of Police Ashok Yadav. However, the toll according to the Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi is 132, while two persons remain unaccounted for. He also said that when the two missing persons are located, the search and rescue operations will be over.
CAA 'benign piece of legislation', doesn't violate Assam Accord provisions, Centre to Supreme Court
The Centre emphasised that CAA does not encourage illegal migration as it is a "focused law" which grants citizenship only to members of six specified communities who came on or before December 31, 2014. In a detailed 150-page affidavit, the Ministry of Home Affairs said: "It is submitted that CAA is a benign piece of legislation which seeks to provide a relaxation, in the nature of an amnesty, to specific communities from the specified countries with a clear cut-off date."
Morbi bridge collapse toll rises to 77, Gujarat CM, PM Modi announces compensation
Many bodies had been fished out from the Machhu river and sent for for post-mortem examinations at the Morbi government hospital while Morbi MLA and Minister of State for Panchayat Brajesh Merja confirmed the number of deaths. No break-up of the deceased was available yet.
Covid-19: Omicron's XBB variant emerges as dominant in India, TN tops
International research organisation GISIAD, that has been monitoring the changes in the virus, has reported that there were 380 confirmed cases of XBB in India. Tamil Nadu has reported 175 cases, followed by West Bengal with 103 cases. The other states that have detected XBB virus are Odisha (35), Maharashtra (21), Delhi (18), Puducherry (16), Karnataka (9), Gujarat (2), and Rajasthan (1).
India reports 1,604 fresh Covid cases, 8 deaths
In the same period, the country has recorded eight more Covid-related deaths, taking the toll to 5,29,016, as per the report. Active caseload presently stands at 18,317 cases, accounting for 0.04 per cent of the country's total positive cases. The recovery of 2,081 patients in the last 24 hours took the cumulative tally to 4,41,04,933. Consequently, India's recovery rate stands at 98.77 per cent.
Girl's marriage to be governed by Muslim personal law: HC
A bench of Justice Vikas Bahl was hearing a habeas corpus petition by the husband for the release of the wife in the custody of Ashiana Home in Panchkula. The Bench was told that both the petitioner and the detainee belonged to the Muslim religion. Seeking the petition's dismissal, the counsel for state said the detainee was minor as her date of birth was March 15, 2006.
Navy participates in maiden India-Mozambique-Tanzania tri-lateral exercise
The exercise has three broad objectives: capability development to address common threats through training and sharing of best practices, enhancing inter-operability, and strengthening maritime cooperation. The exercise is scheduled over a three-day period from October 27-29 and includes harbour and sea phases, said the Ministry of Defence in a statement on Saturday.
Pakistan's designs will never succeed in Kashmir
Such is the story of Pakistan, the shameless aggressors of war crimes against humanity and playing victim before international bodies. As India remembered October 22 as the 75th Black Day marking the Pakistani invasion of the erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir in the garb of the tribal raid and illegal occupation of what is known today as Pakistan-cccupied Jammu & Kashmir (PoJK), it is undeniably ridiculous how Pakistan blames India for being perpetrators of bloodshed in the region.
Internet & social media platforms now potent toolkit of terrorists: EAM
"In recent years, terrorist groups, their ideological fellow-travellers, particularly in open and liberal societies and 'lone wolf' attackers have significantly enhanced their capabilities by gaining access to these technologies. They use technology and money, and most importantly, the ethos of open societies, to attack freedom, tolerance and progress. Internet and social media platforms have turned into potent instruments in the toolkit of terrorist and militant groups for spreading propaganda, radicalisation and conspiracy theories aimed at destabilising societies."
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