LIVE News Updates: Indian boxers training in Italy to leave for Tokyo on July 17

India's Olympic-bound boxing contingent, which is preparing for the Games in Italy right now, will leave for Tokyo from their training base in Assisi on July 17.

In a shocking incident, a woman strangulated her 11-month old ailing infant to death after her husband refused to take him to hospital, and then accused him of the crime, police said.
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Odisha logs record 65 COVID-19 fatalities, 2,282 new cases

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A cholera outbreak in Nigeria has killed 325 people in 15 states and the capital Lagos between January and June of this year, according to health authorities.

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One more COVID-19 patient succumbed to the infection in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, while no fresh case was reported in the archipelago on Sunday, a health bulletin said.

The Union territory's tally stands at 7,492, of which 11 are active cases, while 7,352 people have recovered from the disease and 129 patients have succumbed to the infection to date, it said.

The administration has tested over 4.18 lakh samples for COVID-19 so far, in which the positivity rate was 1.79 per cent.

More than 2.25 lakh people have been inoculated thus far.

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Three men from Muzaffarnagar drowned in Ganga river in Rishikesh of Uttarakhand, police said on Sunday.

Five people were visiting Rishikesh when they decided to take a dip in the river on Saturday evening. Deepak Sharma (34), Rajive Sharma (32) and Aditya Dev (34), who were all chemists, drowned while bathing, they said.

The bodies of brothers, Deepak and Rajive, were recovered, while Aditya still hasn't been traced, the police said, adding that search operations are underway.

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Twitter names Vinay Prakash as Resident Grievance Officer for India: Company website.

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India reports 41,506 new cases in the last 24 hours. Active caseload currently at 4,54,118. Total Recoveries across the country so far are 2,99,75,064.

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Full lockdown continues to be enforced on weekends in Kerala. Kerala reported 14,087 fresh COVID19 cases and 109 deaths yesterday.

(Source: ANI)