Breaking News HIGHLIGHTS: Night Curfew Lifted Across Jammu-Kashmir, Offline Classes To Resume From Monday
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New Delhi, Feb 13 (PTI) International passengers arriving at the IGI Airport here will not require to undergo mandatory weeklong quarantine as new COVID-19 guidelines of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare come into force from Monday.
The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) has directed health officials and district magistrates to ensure the Centre's revised COVID-19 guidelines for international arrivals are followed at the IGI Airport from Monday.
The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare on February 10 released detailed guidelines for international arrivals at airports and seaports in the country, doing away with the quarantine provision.
According to the guidelines, all the passengers will show self-declaration form on arrival at the airport. The passengers found to be symptomatic during screening will be immediately isolated and taken to medical facility under health protocol.
If tested positive, their contacts will be identified and managed as per laid down protocol.
The protocol post arrival mandates that two per cent of the total passengers in a flight will undergo random testing at the airport. Such travellers in each flight will be identified by the airlines concerned, preferably from different countries.
They will submit the samples and will be allowed to leave the airport. If such travellers test positive, their samples would be sent for genomic sequencing.
All travellers will self-monitor their health for next 14 days of arrival. Earlier, such travellers were required to undergo weeklong home quarantine.
The guidelines state if travellers under self-health monitoring develop signs and symptoms suggestive of COVID-19, they will immediately self-isolate and report to their nearest health facility or call national helpline number (1075)/ state helpline number.
This Standard Operating Procedure will be valid from midnight of February 14 till further orders.
Based on the risk assessment, this document shall be reviewed from time to time.
The guidelines further stipulate all travellers should submit complete and factual information in self-declaration form on the online air portal Suvidha before the scheduled travel, including last 14 days' travel details.
They will also upload a negative COVID-19 RT-PCR report not earlier than 72 hrs prior to undertaking the travel or certificate of completing full primary vaccination schedule.
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All private and Govt schools to reopen in urban areas of Rajasthan for classes up to standard 5 from Feb 16, ANI reported the State Govt as announcing.
Jammu, Feb 13 (PTI) The Jammu and Kashmir State Executive Committee (SEC) on Sunday announced the lifting of the night curfew after almost six months and opening of educational institutions in a phased manner beginning Monday amid a decline in COVID-19 cases.
The SEC also attendance at indoor gatherings to 50 per cent of the authorized capacity against the previous 25 per cent, while cinema halls, theatres, restaurants, clubs, gymnasiums and swimming pools were permitted to function at 25 per cent of the authorized capacity with due precautions.
Announcing the guidelines on Sunday after a fresh review of the COVID-19 situation, the SEC, which met under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary A K Mehta, said all universities, colleges, polytechnics and ITIs shall commence routine offline classes teaching from February 14.
All the students between 15-17 age group coming to attend regular offline classes must carry a vaccination certificate with them. The heads of the institutions must ensure that guidelines related to social distancing and Covid-appropriate Behaviour are strictly followed, including regular screening at the entrance to the institution.
They shall also screen any symptomatic student and ensure their testing to contain any possibility of spread of the virus in their institutions, Mehta said in a five-page order issued here.
The order said all Summer Zone Schools in Jammu and Kashmir will open in a phased manner. Classes from 9th to 12th can commence routine offline teaching from February 14. All the students of 15-17 age group coming to attend regular offline classes must carry a vaccination certificate with them, the order stated.
It said the head of the Institutions must ensure vaccination of every student above 15 years of age in their respective Institutions.
The SEC said the offline mode of teaching for remaining junior classes in Summer Zone schools shall begin from February 21, a step which will allow students to attend their schools after a gap of over two years.
In Winter Zone schools, the offline teaching for all classes will commence after February 28. These schools in Kashmir and parts of Jammu region are currently closed owing to the winter vacation.
Coaching centres for civil services/engineering/NEET are permitted to adopt offline mode of teaching subject to condition that both faculty members as well as students are fully vaccinated and the head of the centre ensures due precautions such as CAB and adherence to SOP, the order stated.
The order made no mention of the night curfew, which was in force across Jammu and Kashmir over the past six months, indicating that it had been lifted, days after the administration ended the weekend restrictions.
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Customs Air Intelligence Unit at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport has recovered drugs worth approximately Rs 60 crores from a Zimbabwean passenger on 12th February. The drugs were concealed inside the trolley bag and two file folders
Bihar: All Covid-19 related restrictions to be lifted from Feb 14 in view of a significant decline in the Covid19 surge in the state. Decision taken yesterday in the meeting of Crisis Management Group (CMG) chaired by CM Nitish Kumar, reports AIR.
172.81 cr vaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive
India's Active caseload currently stands at 5,37,045
Active cases stand at 1.26%
Recovery Rate currently at 97.55%
1,17,591 recoveries in the last 24 hours increases Total Recoveries to
4,15,85,711
44,877 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours
Daily positivity rate (3.17%)
Weekly Positivity Rate (4.46%)
75.07 cr Total Tests conducted so far; 14,15,279 tests conducted in the last 24 hours
-- Numbers by PIB
External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar is set to begin his three-day visit to the Philippines on Sunday with an aim to strengthen bilateral ties. Jaishankar will visit the Philippines from February 13 to 15, to discuss regional and international issues of mutual interest, said the Ministry of External Affairs in its official statement on Wednesday.
The visit comes at a time when India signed a deal worth USD 375 million to supply 290 km strike range BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles to the Philippines. Notably, this is Jaishankar's first visit to the Philippines as External Affairs Minister wherein he will hold talks with Teodoro L. Locsin Jr., Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines to review developments in bilateral relations.
In November 2020, the Joint Commission meeting on Bilateral Cooperation was co-chaired in virtual format by both sides. In addition to other meetings with the political leadership in the Philippines, EAM would interact with the Indian community in Manila during his visit.
A 48-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly raping a mentally-challenged woman at a village in Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said.
The accused is a resident of the Dapchari Sutar Pada area of Kev in Vikramgad, who had allegedly raped a woman from his village over the last five months.
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The political juggernaut has halted in Goa and Uttarakhand as campaigning in both the states came to an end on Saturday. Both the states will go to Assembly polls in a single phase on February 14 and the counting of votes will take place on March 10.
There are 40 seats in Goa while there are 70 seats in Uttarakhand. The results will be announced on March 10, 2022.
Meanwhile, there is an internal political battle going on in the Trinamool Congress. Amid the municipal elections 2022 held at 4 places in West Bengal on Saturday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has dissolved all the posts which means Mamata's nephew Abhishek Banerjee is no longer General secretary.
In West Bengal, there was a detailed discussion on the internal battle going on inside the TMC today. CM Mamta Banerjee had called an emergency meeting. During the meeting, a committee of 20 members has been formed on behalf of the party.
This committee has been formed and all the older posts were dissolved.
Businessman Rahul Bajaj passed away in Pune at his residence on Saturday. According to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, the burial of Padma Bhushan-awardee businessman Rahul Bajaj would be conducted on Sunday with full state honours.
During a rally in poll-bound Uttarakhand, Sarma on Friday attacked Gandhi for demanding proof of the September 2016 surgical strike and questioning the efficacy of the anti-Covid vaccines.
He asked whether the BJP had ever demanded proof of him being the "son of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi".
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