LIVE Updates: Puducherry government extends COVID restrictions till July 31, allows reopening of tourist spots

Puducherry government extends COVID restrictions till July 31; allows reopening of tourist spots like boathouse with 50% capacity while adhering to COVID norms.

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Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Mumbai summons Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi's nephew Aslam Azmi to appear before it tomorrow in connection with a drugs case: NCB

Jammu and Kashmir recorded 203 fresh cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, taking the total number of infected persons to 3,19,355, while one new death pushed the fatality toll to 4,361, officials said.

Of the fresh cases, 74 were from the Jammu division and 129 from the Kashmir division of the union territory, they said.

The officials said Srinagar district recorded the highest of 42 cases, followed by 22 cases in Reasi district. No fresh case was reported from two districts and nine districts had new cases in single digits, they added.

Karnataka reports 1977 fresh COVID cases, 3188 discharges, and 48 deaths in the past 24 hours. Active cases: 32,383 Total discharges: 28,10,121 Death toll: 36,037.

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National Testing Agency advised to provide gap of 4 weeks between 3rd and 4th editions of JEE-Main: Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

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Team India will begin their preparations for the upcoming five-match Test series against England with a three-day warm-up game at Emirates Riverside against County XI starting on Tuesday: BCCI

Delhi: DC Chowk Market in Sector-9 of Rohini shut till July 19 for violation of COVID19 norms: SDM, Alipur

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No plans to reopen schools in Delhi for now: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

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Former Union Minister of IT, Arun Shourie knocks the doors of the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of Section 124-A (Sedition Law) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) 1860, and said that it is violative of Articles 14 and 19(1)(a) of the Constitution of India

Indian cricket team's throwdown specialist Dayanand Garani tests positive for COVID-19 in England, two others from contingent also isolated

Now that the COVID situation has improved, I will go to Delhi during the Parliament session and meet some leaders there. I will meet the President and the Prime Minister if given an appointment: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee.

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Delhi reports 72 new COVID cases, 88 recoveries, and one death in the past 24 hours

Active cases: 671

Total recoveries: 14,09,660

Death toll: 25,022

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We are going to introduce three plans to ease the pressure on the state economy. We have taken a step for locals who lost livelihoods due to damage caused by cyclones and have decided to introduce other masterplans for Sundarbans & Digha: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee.

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Delhi court says it will hear on July 27 bail application of former JNU student leader Umar Khalid, arrested under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in northeast Delhi riots conspiracy case

A 26-year-old woman was shot dead by unidentified assailants on Thursday while she was waiting for a bus outside a medical college here, police said.

The incident took place outside the Muzaffarnagar Medical College, Begarajpur, where the married woman had come for a check-up from her village Shernagar, they said.

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We have appealed to all not to visit Haridwar as 'Kanwar Yatra' has been suspended by the state government. We will hold a coordination meeting with all districts sharing borders with neighbouring states to stop 'Kanwars' from coming to Haridwar: Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar.

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Rajasthan: Congress workers stage protest in Jaipur against rising inflation. "Rising fuel and gas prices in the country have disrupted economic system. Crude oil is cheap in international markets. Centre has failed," says Rajasthan Minister Pratap Khachariyawas

Twenty children hailing from Puducherry were hospitalised on Thursday after testing positive for COVID-19, Director of Health and Family Welfare services S Mohan Kumar said.

They were admitted to the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College Hospital at Kadirkamam near here.

Kumar told PTI that details of their age were being collected.

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Not only the nation but the entire world is proud of him. We demand from the Central Government and PM that Sunderlal Bahuguna (Chipko movement leader and environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna) be awarded Bharat Ratna posthumously: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal

Calcutta High Court to hear the Narada scam case on August 16.

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Former Mizoram Governor P.S. Sreedharan Pillai was sworn-in as the new Governor of Goa on Thursday.

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IMA opposes AYUSH training for medical students, writes to National Medical Commission. It is not prudent for an Intern trained in modern medicine to partake and practice a system of medicine which he has not learned in under graduation with know-how and show how paradigms: IMA

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Supreme Court, while hearing a plea challenging the constitutional validity of the Sedition Law, tells the Centre that it is a colonial law and was used against freedom fighters. Supreme Court asks Centre if Sedition Law is still required to exist after 75 years of independence.

"Sedition law is a colonial law & was used by the British and to suppress freedom. It was used against Mahatma Gandhi, Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Is this law still needed after 75 yrs of independence?," says Supreme Court

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Delhi High Court refuses to entertain a PIL seeking reduction of interval gap between two doses of COVID19 vaccine Covishield

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The Indian rupee strengthened by 12 paise to 74.47 against the US dollar in early trade on Thursday, as a dovish US Fed pulled the greenback lower.

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Sensex rises 113.54 pts to 53,017.59 in opening session; Nifty inches 27.85 pts higher to 15,881.80

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Keeping the lives of everyone on priority, we have cancelled the Kanwar Yatra. Protection of people's lives comes first for us: Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami "We have stopped it in our state," says the CM on UP Govt's decision to allow the Yatra.

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Seven persons travelling in a bus were injured after the driver of a truck that was running ahead of it suddenly applied brakes when a mentally-ill man hurled a stone towards his vehicle near Nagpur city, a police official said on Thursday.

The incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon on Nagpur-Bhandara Road, in which the driver and the conductor of the bus suffered injuries along with five passengers, he said.

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Staff at a Japanese hotel hosting Brazil's Olympic judo team test positive for coronavirus: AFP News Agency

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Jammu and Kashmir: A drone was spotted near the Air Force station in Jammu last night. Details awaited.

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With the addition of 489 coronavirus positive cases, the infection count in Thane district of Maharashtra mounted to 5,38,960, an official said on Thursday.

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