LIVE News Updates: 50% aspirants skip UPSC exam in Lucknow due to COVID fear

Nearly 50 per cent of the candidates opted out of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) preliminary examination 2020 for selection to Indian Administrative and Allied Services in Lucknow.

The exam was conducted on Sunday.

According to sources, as many as 43,921 candidates were registered for the examination at various centres in the city. About 21,790 (49.6 per cent) registered candidates appeared in the first shift for "general studies" paper.

The number dropped further to 21,607 (49.2 per cent) in the second shift for "optional subject".

SC asks fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya’s lawyers to apprise by Nov 2 when can he appear before court & when secret proceedings to end

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.”

Two CRPF men were killed and three others injured after terrorists attacked a road opening party of the police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in South Kashmir's Pulwama district on Monday, officials said.

Veteran politician and former union minister Qazi Rasheed Masood passed away today. The 73-year-old leader was undergoing treatment in Roorkee, suffering from various ailments. He died around 10 am Monday.

He will be buried at his ancestral village . He was the Health Minister in the National Front government led by VP Singh at the Center in 1989

There is Modi govt in the centre for 6 years, and for 6 years this govt has been constantly attacking the poor, workers and farmers. Not even a single policy of theirs is meant for the welfare of the poor people, all their policies are made to benefit their 3-4 friends, Rahul Gandhi in Sangrur, punjab

A suicide attack targeted Laghman Governor's convoy this morning, killing 8 people and injuring over 30. The Governor survived the attack: Afghanistan's TOLOnews

5 CRPF jawans injured in the attack by terrorists at Pampore bypass. Earlier, terrorists fired upon road opening party (ROP) of CRPF near Tangan bypass on the outskirts of Srinagar city.

Himachal Pradesh CM Jai Ram Thakur has self-isolated himself for three days after he came in contact with a BJP MLA who has tested positive for COVID-19.

The law is made. The bills have been passed in the Parliament. But who says that an amendment cannot be made to those laws. I request Rahul ji to scrap these black laws when he becomes the PM with a majority in the Lok Sabha: Capt Amarinder Singh, Punjab CM, on the new farm laws

Indian Air Force is ready for any possible conflict including a two-front war: IAF chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria on whether IAF is ready for a two-front war with Pakistan and China

Supreme Court has given petitioners 1 week to reply to centre’s plan on loan repayments during COVD-19

Congress workers stage protest in Mumbai against the alleged gangrape of a woman in Hathras (Uttar Pradesh).

FIR registered against Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad and 400-500 unnamed people under multiple sections of the IPC and Epidemic Diseases Act, for violation of Section 144 CrPC in Hathras.

Since the very beginning, in this case, there has been a conspiracy to malign Maharashtra govt & Mumbai Police. If now CBI inquiry is also not being trusted, then we're speechless: Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut.

It is as per the reports of Dr Sudhir Gupta, who is the head of AIIMS Forensic Medical Board in SSR death case. He doesn't have any political connection or any links with Shiv Sena: Sanjay Raut, Shiv Sena on reports that AIIMS has stated it to be a case of suicide

India's COVID-19 tally crosses 66-lakh mark with a spike of 74,442 new cases & 903 deaths reported in last 24 hours. Total case tally stands at 66,23,816 including 9,34,427 active cases, 55,86,704 cured/discharged/migrated cases & 1,02,685 deaths: Union Health Ministry

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has crossed the 35 million mark, while the deaths have increased to more than 1,036,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

As of Monday, the total number of cases stood at 35,075,423 and the fatalities rose to 1,036,095, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.

The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 7,420,779 and 209,821, respectively, according to the CSSE.

India comes in second place in terms of cases at 6,549,373, while the country's death toll soared to 101,782.

The other top 15 countries with the maximum amount of cases are Brazil (4,915,289), Russia (1,209,039), Colombia (855,052), Peru (821,564), Argentina (798,486), Spain (789,932), Mexico (761,665), South Africa (681,289), France (629,509), the UK (505,619), Iran (471,772), Chile (470,179), Iraq (379,141), Bangladesh (368,690), and Saudi Arabia (336,387), the CSSE figures showed.

Brazil currently accounts for the second highest number of fatalities at 146,352.

The countries with a death toll above 10,000 are Mexico (101,782), the UK (42,440), Italy (35,986), Peru (32,609), France (32,171), Spain (32,086), Iran (26,957), Colombia (26,712), Russia (21,260), Argentina (21,018), South Africa (16,976), Chile (12,979), Ecuador (11,647), Indonesia (11,151) and Belgium (10,044).