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The positivity rate, gradually has dipped to about 8.50 percent to 9.50 per cent now from 14-15 per cent last month, he said.

The advisory from the BCAS comes in the wake of the continuous threat to the civil aviation sector received from central security agencies.

As per IITH plans, the first batch will initially spend two weeks in self-quarantine in designated quarters on campus before moving to their own hostel rooms.

Sisodia said the Rapid Antigen Test (RAT), over which the experts have expressed reservations due to high false negative rate, has its own merits, one of which is giving immediate results that can help in early isolation of a patient to contain the spread...

Delivering the inaugural address at the launch of the Rashtriya Swachhata Kendra, Modi urged children to follow social distancing norms and wear masks to guard against coronavirus.

There are 6,19,088 active cases of COVID-19, comprising 29.64 per cent of the caseload. The case fatality rate has further dropped to 2.04 per cent.  This was the 10th day in a row that the COVID-19 tally increased by more than 50,000.

Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is probing the accident at the Kozhikode airport that has left at least 18 people dead, including the two pilots of the plane.

Under the Electric Vehicle Policy, the Delhi government will waive the registration fee and road tax, and provide an incentive of up to Rs 1.5 lakh for new electric cars.

In a highly-anticipated event, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday laid the foundation of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.

All public transport, offices and other commercial establishments, barring those dealing with essential services, remained closed as the strict restrictions were clamped.

As per the FIR, the persons who have been booked had close connections with the area's Tahsildar and Naib Tahsildar who flouted the norms and prepared the sale deed for the registry of properties, before the mandatory period of 5 years.

The tragedy that unfolded at Kozhikode's Karipur airport bears an uncanny resemblance to one of the worst aviation disasters in India — the plane crash at Mangalore airport in 2010.

The entire Punjab Cabinet on Thursday pitched in for the expulsion of party MPs Pratap Singh Bajwa and Shamsher Singh Dullo for alleged "anti-party and anti-government activities", which they termed as "gross indiscipline".

The decision was taken at a meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee (CSMC) under PMAY (Urban). The meeting was attended by 19 states and Union Territories.

This work, Gupta adds, was done despite physical assaults on the workers during the initial days over rumours that the deadly pandemic was being spread by them.

Goyal said that through Railways the goods of farmers will reach every corner of the country easily.