Breaking News HIGHLIGHTS: J&K Schools To Reopen For Class 12 Vaccinated Students With 50% Capacity
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Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya participated in G-20 Health Ministers' Meeting 2021.
Maharashtra: Mumbai reports 496 fresh COVID cases, 237 recoveries, and 2 deaths.
Active cases: 3,815
Total recoveries: 7,24,077
Death toll: 15,993
West Bengal CM and TMC chief CM Mamata Banerjee to contest from Bhabanipur in the Assembly bypolls. TMC candidates Jakir Hossain & Amirul Islam to contest from Jangipur & Samserganj seats respectively, ANI reported.
Elections on the three seats will be held on Sept 30.
Jammu & Kashmir Govt allows reopening of schools for Class 12 for vaccinated students & staff, with 50% capacity; permits DCs to allow reopening of schools for Class 10 after COVID test; also allows coaching centres for civil services/JEE/NEET to reopen with certain conditions.
"No more than 20 people will be allowed for celebrations & immersion of Ganesha idol. No celebrations will be allowed after 9 pm. Night curfew to remain in effect during the festival": Karnataka govt in its SOPs for 5-day Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations.
"No processions will be allowed. Only eco-friendly Ganesha idols will be allowed. Distribution of food & prasad will not be allowed during Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations. No function to take place in districts with more than 2% positivity rate": Karnataka govt
TMC General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee will appear before Enforcement Directorate in Delhi tomorrow.
"As CM, I have a responsibility to maintain harmony among different communities. If he (Baghel's father) made a remark against a community, I feel sorry. Legal action would be taken against him": Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel on FIR against his father for remarks against Brahmins.
PM Narendra Modi will address the inaugural conclave of Shikshak Parv on September 7 via video conferencing. He will also launch multiple key initiatives in the education sector during the event: PMO
We have identified 188 primary contacts. Of which, 20 persons are in the high-risk category. They are being shifted to MCH, Kozhikode. We've formulated an action plan & are enforcing lockdown in 3 km around child's house (infected with Nipah virus): Kerala Health Minister Veena Gorge
We take a pledge that we'll not leave the protest site there (at Delhi borders) even if our graveyard is made there. We will lay down our lives if needed, but will not leave the protest site until we emerge victorious, says BKU (Arajnaitik) leader Rakesh Tikait at Kisan Mahapanchayat
Goa administration was on high alert on Sunday, a day after the IMD predicted "very heavy rainfall in the coastal state over the next couple of days, officials said.
The sky was overcast in Goa's capital Panaji and other cities of the state since morning, they said.
A senior official from the North Goa district administration said control rooms were activated and people were asked to remain alert in case there was flooding in their areas.
After the experience of last month, when several places were flooded (due to heavy rains), we are leaving nothing to chance, the official said.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday said with the likely formation of a low pressure area over north and adjoining central Bay of Bengal during next 48 hours, monsoon activity may get strengthened over south Konkan and Goa in the coming days.
Very heavy rainfall (exceeding 11.5 cm in 24 hours) is very likely at one or two places over the districts of Goa on September 5, 6 and 7. Likelihood of heavy rainfall (64.5 115.5 mm in 24 hours) continues over North and South Goa districts for about a week from 4th September, with scattered and isolated spatial distributions, the IMD had said.
President Ram Nath Kovind confers 44 teachers with National Awards
Farmers protesting against Farm laws have organised a mahapanchayat in Muzaffarnagar today.
Congratulating Suhas Yathiraj, an IAS officer who won a silver medal at the Paralympics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday described him as a fantastic confluence of service and sports who has captured the imagination of the entire nation.
Yathiraj ended his campaign with a historic silver after going down fighting against top seed Lucas Mazur of France in the men's singles SL4 class final at the Tokyo Paralympics here on Sunday.
The 38-year-old Noida district magistrate, who has an impairment in one of his ankles, produced an entertaining performance before narrowly going down 21-15 17-21 15-21 to two-time world champion Mazur in a 62-minute summit clash.
Modi tweeted, "A fantastic confluence of service and sports! @dmgbnagar Suhas Yathiraj has captured the imagination of our entire nation thanks to his exceptional sporting performance. Congratulations to him on winning the Silver medal in Badminton. Best wishes to him for his future endeavours."
Kerala health minister Veenu George announces National Institute of Virology, Pune confirmed Nipah case in Kozhikode. The patient succumbed at 5 am today, says George.
Farmers protesting against the three central farm laws will hold a mahapanchayat in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar today. According to organisers, lakhs of farmers will attend the event.
Around 600 Taliban fighters were killed in fight against Afghan resistance forces in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Panjshir, the resistance forces have claimed. Taliban and opposition forces battled on Saturday to control the Panjshir Valley north of Kabul, the last Afghan province holding out against the Islamist group, with both sides claiming to have the upper hand without producing conclusive evidence, as reported by ANI.
Ariana Afghan Airlines resumed some flights in Afghanistan between Kabul and three major provincial cities on Saturday, the carrier said, after a technical team from Qatar reopened the capital's airport for aid and domestic services, as reported by Reuters.
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Breaking News BHIGHLIGHTS, September 5, 2021: About 600 Taliban have been killed in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Panjshir, Sputnik reported quoting the Afghan resistance forces on Saturday.
"About 600 Taliban have been liquidated in various districts of Panjshir since morning. More than 1,000 Taliban have been captured or surrendered themselves," the resistance forces' spokesperson Fahim Dashti tweeted.
The spokesperson further added that the Taliban had problems with getting supplies from other Afghan provinces, Sputnik reported.
Meanwhile, the Taliban offensive against Panjshir resistance forces has slowed down due to the presence of land mines in the area.
Ariana Afghan Airlines resumed some flights in Afghanistan between Kabul and three major provincial cities on Saturday, the carrier said, after a technical team from Qatar reopened the capital's airport for aid and domestic services.
In India, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Saturday claimed that thousands of farmers from 15 states have started reaching Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district to participate in "Kisan Mahapanchayat" on Sunday.
The umbrella body of 40 farmer unions spearheading the farmers' agitation against the Centre's three farm laws said the "mahapanchayat" will prove that the agitation has the support of "all castes, religions, states, classes, small traders and all sections of the society"
"The "mahapanchayat" of September 5 will make the Yogi-Modi governments realize the power of farmers, farm labourers, and supporters of the farm movement.
"The Muzaffarnagar ''mahapanchayat'' will be the biggest ever in the last nine months," the SKM said in a statement.
It added that 500 ''langar'' services have been started to arrange meals for farmers, including mobile ''langar'' system run on hundreds of tractor-trolleys.
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