'There is no point in just saying, 'hum wapas bhej denge (we will send Kashmiri Pandits back)'.'
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While Karnataka reported five new cases, Delhi and Telangana reported four each, and Gujarat reported one fresh case of the Omicron variant.
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Maharashtra remains the worst-affected state due to the virus with 35,058 cases, including 1,249 deaths. It is followed by Tamil Nadu (11,760) and Gujarat (11,745).
'This IPL, probably more than any other, has become more about what's happening on the outside than what's happening here.
The move came after a three-member inquiry panel of the government submitted its final report to Health Minister Satyendar Jain, who described the incident as 'not acceptable'.
The fatality rate has further dropped to 2.07 per cent, the data stated.
The recovery rate has increased to 76.62 per cent, while the fatality rate has declined to 1.78 per cent.
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The recovery rate stands at 62.61 per cent.
Assistant Sub-Inspector Rakesh Chaudhury has been posted at Delhi's Lodhi Crematorium where he has helped in the cremation of around 1,300-1,400 bodies, many of those being of Covid-19 patients
'This man changed the mindset of a generation.'
In the national capital, the maximum temperature was recorded at the season's highest at 44 degree Celsius.
Yadav struck deals with the Bahujan Samaj Party, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress whenever needed to form or save the governments led by him in Uttar Pradesh.
A group of students carrying placards and raising slogans protested in the tense University campus on Wednesday morning.
Much of the negative perceptions of the north-east diaspora owe their origin and existence to the perverse policies of the central government toward the region and its people. This realisation must be the beginning of an earnest endeavour to address the issue, says R N Ravi.
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The number of recoveries stands at 6,12,814, while there are 3,31,146 active cases of coronavirus infection presently in the country. "Thus, around 63.25 per cent of patients have recovered so far," an official said.
'When the courts intervene, we are attacked for judicial activism'
The ministry said 151 out of the 578 people who contracted the infection have recovered or migrated.
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The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 9,272 and as many as 1,189 people have been cured and discharged, and one has migrated, it said.
'There is more likelihood of dying from lightning than from vaccine induced blood clots.'
Tusshar was found unconscious by some students in his school bathroom.
The girl was shifted to Delhi's Safdarjung hospital after her condition deteriorated and she died on Monday.
'When you sow a small plant, then you keep watch on it so that wild cattle should not eat that sapling.'
'We know how to kill a terrorist, but we do not know how to stop an innocent boy getting radicalised.'
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For the residents of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Camp, living next to a crematorium is as much a struggle as keeping COVID-19 at bay.
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'Now, we have very different setting including changes in rules with two new balls and the fielding restrictions are very different. But ODI fever started in the 1990s. On-field noticeable changes, early to mid 90s was okay, but from 1996 things changed at rapid pace.'
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the ongoing delimitation exercise in Jammu and Kashmir has to happen quickly so that polls can be held to instal an elected government that gives strength to its development trajectory.
Hakim won the Santosh Trophy for Services in 1960 and continued to be a part of the squad till 1966. At club level, he played for City College Old Boys (Hyderabad) and Indian Air Force.
The four-and-a-half-year-old son of Bihari migrants based in Delhi died at the railway station in Muzaffarpur on arrival by a 'Shramik Special' train, while his father desperately hunted for some milk he believed will save his child.
The Uttar Pradesh government has initiated the process to identify land for setting up of a co-ed inter college in the district as a tribute to the December 16 gang-rape victim who succumbed to injuries on Tuesday.
The green body's report said three of the world's largest nitrogen oxide air pollution emission hotspots that contribute to formation of PM2.5 and ozone are in India with one in the Delhi-NCR.
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