LIVE News Updates: 5.4-magnitude earthquake hits eastern Turkey; 5 injured

A moderately strong earthquake hit southeast Turkey on Thursday, causing damage to some homes and slightly injuring five people.

The 5.4-magnitude quake struck the town of Ozalp, in Van province, near Turkey's border with Iran, at a depth of 6.9 kilometers, Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency said.

It was felt in neighboring provinces, HaberTurk news channel reported.

Growth will be slightly over 1% in 2 years in India, says IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath, reported NDTV

CBI files charge sheet against Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor, others in connection with alleged Rs 600-crore bribe received from DHFL promoter Kapil Wadhawan: Officials

Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) scheduled on July 5 has been postponed, will be conducted when situation is conducive: HRD minister

Thirty countries in Europe have seen an increase in COVID-19 cases since nations began easing restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the potentially fatal virus, the WHO's Europe director said on Thursday

Tamil Nadu reports 3,509 new COVID-19 cases, the highest single day spike, and 45 fatalities pushing infection count to 70,977 and death toll to 911: Govt

Andhra Pradesh records 553 new COVID-19 cases, taking tally to 10,884; death toll reaches 136 with 7 more fatalities: Govt bulletin

China amassing large number of troops since early May; India had to make counter deployment, says MEA on eastern Ladakh row

Health Dept to deploy robust surveillance mechanism. Only COVID positive cases who don't have adequate facilities at home to ensure physical segregation and don't have other medical conditions would require to be shifted to COVID Care Centres and other facilities:Delhi Lieutenant Governor, reported ANI

8 more personnel of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. There are total 70 active cases & 221 have recovered till date: Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), reported ANI

Police opposes Sharjeel Imam's plea, says no infirmity in trial court order extending time to complete probe in the UAPA case

Anti CAA protests: HC reserves order on Sharjeel Imam's plea against extension of time to complete probe in the case against him

The total number of COVID19 cases in the state is 145 including 115 active cases and 30 discharged: Department of Information and Public Relations, Government of Mizoram, reported ANI

Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital was the first hospital to be declared as full-fledged COVID hospital 100 days ago. Around 114 deliveries have taken place at the hospital in this period. LNJP is the first hospital where plasma therapy was started: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, reported ANI

Today, on the 19th day of constant fuel price hike the BJP govt has made it clear that it is more interested in robbing people even in this time of corona crisis.

Congress leaders and workers staged huge protests all across UP. People are not ready to bear with this loot, tweeted Priyanka Gandhi

Uttarakhand Congress President Pritam Singh, Vice President Suryakant Dhasmana and some others have been booked for holding a protest over fuel price rise, in Dehradun earlier today: City Kotwali Station House Officer SS Negi, reported ANI

Uttarakhand reports 20 new COVID-19 cases till 2:30 pm today, taking the total number of cases to 2,642: State Control Room COVID-19, reported ANI

Supreme Court asks Centre, CBSE to issue fresh notification regarding Class 12 examinations and clarify on status of state board exams. The Court will tomorrow continue hearing the case, reported ANI

ICSE board also to cancel class 10 and 12 board exams. However, ICSE doesn't agree to give option to students to write exam later, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta informs Supreme Court, reported ANI

Delhi, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu have conveyed inability to conduct the examinations, Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta informs Supreme Court, reported ANI

Exams for class X and XII scheduled for July 1-15 have been cancelled, CBSE tells SC

UP police arrested dozens of Congress activists, including UP Congress President Ajay Kumar Lallu for protesting over petrol and diesel price hike in Hazratganj, Lucknow

Eiffel Tower reopens with strict virus restrictions, news agency AFP reported

Naxals set on fire six vehicles and machines engaged in road construction in the insurgency-hit Sukma district of Chhattisgarh: Police.

Over the next 3 days, heavy to very heavy rainfall warning has been given to Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim. There are also chances of flooding so we have informed State and the central govt: RK Jenamani, Senior Scientist, IMD, reported ANI

Govt wants to resolve the issue diplomatically. No objection, but situation is worsening. China is trying to scare us but we're not the ones to get scared. We should speak the language they understand. Our arsenals aren't meant for hatching eggs: Adhir R Chowdhury, Congress, reported ANI

Despite govt statements, tension continues at Ladakh border & Chinese infiltration is not ending. China has shown aggression. This is increasing distress among common man. Our Army jawans are capable of driving back Chinese infiltrators: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Congress, reported ANI

We will not give permission to Patanjali to sell their anti-Corona drug in the state. We will decide once they get approval from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR): Raghu Sharma, Rajasthan Health Minister

4 National People's Party (NPP) ministers who resigned from Manipur Government will withdraw their resignations and support the govt led by BJP's N. Biren Singh: Conrad Sangma, NPP Chief and Meghalaya CM, reported ANI

Andhra Pradesh reports 477 new COVID-19 positive cases and 7 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of positive cases and deaths to 8,783 and 136 respectively: State Health Department, reported ANI

Three more Maharashtra police personnel, including an officer, die of COVID-19, taking the death toll in the state force to 54: Official.

Delhi: Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan launches 'eBloodServices App', an initiative of the Indian Red Cross Society, amid COVID-19 pandemic, reported ANI

FIRregistered against Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh for leading a cycle -protest in Bhopal against fuel price hike without taking permission from authorities: Police

Andhra Pradesh: Three coaches of a goods train were derailed and caught fire between Surareddipalem and Tangutur stations, late last night. The derailed coaches were carrying oil tankers. Railway Official said, "four trains were diverted in the route, due to the incident.", reported ANI

IIT Bombay has become the first major institute to scrap all face-to-face lectures for the rest of the year "so that there is no compromise on the safety and well-being of the students". In a Facebook Post last night, IIT Bombay Director Professor Subhasis Chaudhuri said the decision was made "after a long deliberation." Reported NDTV

210 new COVID-19 positive cases reported in Odisha, taking the total number of positive cases in the state to 5,962, of which 1,815 are active cases and 4,123 have recovered: Odisha Health Department, reported ANI

Petrol price hiked 16 paise per litre, diesel by 14; rates up ₹ 8.66 for petrol and ₹10.63 in diesel in 19 days

At least 10 four-wheelers, mostly cars, were gutted in a fire that broke out at a garage in Kondhwa area of Maharashtra's Pune city, a fire official said on Thursday.

Himachal Pradesh records 31 new COVID-19 cases, tally rises to 807: Officials

Sensex tumbles 343.59 points to 34,525.39 in opening session; Nifty falls 99.10 points to 10,206.20

75,60,782 samples tested till 24th June. 2,07,871 samples tested in the last 24 hours: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), reported ANI

418 deaths and highest single-day spike of 16,922 new COVID-19 positive cases reported in India in last 24 hours. Positive cases in India stand at 4,73,105 including 1,86,514 active cases, 2,71,697 cured/discharged/migrated & 14,894 deaths: Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, reported ANI

An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale struck off the east coast of Chiba Prefecture in Japan on Thursday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).

The death toll from the 7.5-magnitude earthquake that struck Mexico's Oaxaca state earlier this week rose to seven, while about 2,000 homes were damaged, authorities said

The overall number of global COVID-19 cases has topped 9.4 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 482,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

A fire broke out at the Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait office in south Mumbai's Nariman Point area on Thursday, fire brigade officials said.

One terrorist was killed in an encounter at Hardshiva, Sopore in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district on Thursday, officials said.

According to details, a joint team of army, police and the CRPF laid a cordon of the area on the basis of a specific intelligence input during the night.

As the security forces tightened the cordon, the hiding terrorists fired at them triggering the encounter at the first light.