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    Active Covid cases in India dip to 65,683
    National

    Active Covid cases in India dip to 65,683

    New Delhi, Apr 24: India has logged 7,178 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases have dipped after 69 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll has increased to 5,31,345 with 16 deaths, which includes eight reconciled by Kerala, the data...
    Joshimath still to see enough long-term measures to address land subsidence, say experts
    National

    Joshimath still to see enough long-term measures to address land subsidence, say...

    Dehradun, Apr 23: Nearly four months since Joshimath made headlines as the "sinking town", the gateway to Himalayan pilgrimage sites is yet to see enough curative steps that address the land subsidence issue, environmental experts have said. People in unsafe zones have been moved to safety,...
    Musks Twitter reinstates legacy blue tick on high-profile accounts
    Sci - Tech

    Musk's Twitter reinstates legacy blue tick on high-profile accounts

    New Delhi, Apr 23: In a surprising turn of events, Twitter has restored verification badges on several high-profile celebrity accounts with millions of followers, just days after the microblogging platform culled the legacy blue checkmarks for non-paying users. The move assumes significance...
    Assam Police issues notice to IYC chief over harassment allegations, asks him to appear by May 2
    Guwahati

    Assam Police issues notice to IYC chief over harassment allegations, asks him to...

    Guwahati, Apr 23: The Assam Police on Sunday asked Indian Youth Congress president Srinivas B V to appear before it by May 2 for questioning in connection with allegations of harassment and gender discrimination against him by now-expelled party leader Angkita Dutta. A police team from Assam...
    Two Indian students die while swimming in lake in US
    International

    Two Indian students die while swimming in lake in US

    New York, Apr 23: Two Indian students who went missing last week while swimming at a lake in the US state of Indiana are dead, local authorities have confirmed. Siddhant Shah, 19, and Aryan Vaidya, 20, went swimming at Monroe Lake, roughly 102 km southwest of downtown Indianapolis, with a group of...
    Amritpal Singh flown to Dibrugarh jail
    Assam

    Amritpal Singh flown to Dibrugarh jail

    Dibrugarh, Apr 23: A special flight carrying radical preacher Amritpal Singh from Punjab landed at Dibrugarh airport on Sunday, officials said. According to official sources, Singh was brought aboard a special flight from Bathinda after his arrest by Punjab Police during early Sunday...
    BJP used Pulwama attack, Balakot air strike to win 2019 LS polls: Ex-Tripura CM Manik Sarkar
    North East

    BJP used Pulwama attack, Balakot air strike to win 2019 LS polls: Ex-Tripura CM...

    Agartala, Apr 23: The BJP had “used” the 2019 Pulwama terror attack and the consequent air strike at Balakot in the neighbouring country to win the Lok Sabha polls that year, former Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar claimed on Sunday. Sarkar made the claim days after former Governor of Jammu...
    Work on two-lane road till Myanmar border in Nagaland will start soon: Union min Murugan
    North East

    Work on two-lane road till Myanmar border in Nagaland will start soon: Union min...

    Kohima, Apr 23: Union minister L Murugan said that work on the two-lane road from Meluri in Nagaland's Phek district to Avangkhu along the India-Myanmar border will begin soon. Murugan, who became the first central minister to visit the border village on Saturday, said the road will pave the...
    India jumps 6 places on World Bank
    Business

    India jumps 6 places on World Bank's Logistic Performance Index

    New Delhi, Apr 23: India has climbed six places on the World Bank's Logistic Performance Index (LPI) 2023, now ranking 38th in the 139 countries index, as a result of significant investments in both soft and hard infrastructure as well as technology. India was ranked 44th on the index in 2018...
    People of Sikkim yearn for clean governance: football star-turned politician Bhaichung
    North East

    People of Sikkim yearn for clean governance: football star-turned politician...

    Gangtok, Apr 23: People of the Himalayan idyll of Sikkim yearn for a “corruption and violence free” government in elections to the state assembly slated to be held early next year, said ace footballer-turned-politician Bhaichung Bhutia. In an interview to PTI, Bhutia, who heads the Hamro Sikkim...
    Buckingham Palace averted Kohinoor ‘side story
    International

    Buckingham Palace averted Kohinoor ‘side story' for King Charles's Coronation,...

    London, Apr 23: Buckingham Palace would have been conscious about the potential for controversy around the colonial era Kohinoor diamond claimed by India and averted it becoming a side story of King Charles III and Queen Camilla's Coronation ceremony next month, a royal expert has said. Camilla...
    Terror attack: Massive searches underway in J-K
    National

    Terror attack: Massive searches underway in J-K's Poonch to track terrorists

    Poonch/Jammu, Apr 23: Army's Northern Commander Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi on Sunday said that necessary action is underway against the terrorists responsible for the deadly attack on an army truck in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district that left five soldiers dead. A massive search operation to...
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