India

The buttress of the all-weather road caved in following heavy rains near Hindolakhal on Rishikesh-Chamba-Gangotri highway around 4 am and the rubble came crashing on a double-storey building in Kheragad village.

The gathering of people in large numbers is not advisable in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, said Dr Pankaj Ashiya, municipal commissioner of the Bhiwandi Nizampur Municipal Corporation.

The Meghalaya Health minister said that the Union AYUSH ministry has also agreed in principle to sanction 13 of the 19 AYUSH health and wellness centres for Meghalaya proposed during 2019-20.

The revision of timings took effect after several technicians and staff complained that wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits for hours at a stretch was cumbersome for them.

The virus cycle has completed six months and, on July 30, 15,88,129 cases were reported in India. The country stands only behind USA and Brazil in terms of total caseload. Here is an analysis of India's Covid-19 journey over the last six months.

The Chinese Ambassador also not just continued to push Beijing’s narrative of what led to the violent Galwan Valley face-off but once again seemed to be making a claim over the India territory.

The group plans to return to Bengaluru by August 8 with a handful of holy soil from the Ram Mandir site, which it will later distribute among the Ram temples in the city.

Sources said Rajiv Satav, PL Punia and Digvijaya Singh were the prominent members who demanded that Rahul should be brought back to handle the political crisis.

To be constituted on the lines of vital installation force in other states, this force will be named Uttar Pradesh Special Security Force (UPSSF), the release said, adding the state cabinet has also given its approval for the same.

The state government had in April announced an ex-gratia of Rs 50 lakh for families of all frontline workers, doctors and other health care professionals and who die due the infection during the course of their work.

The next round of sero survey, will be done in the same municipal wards - Matunga, Chembur and Dahisar - said BMC officials.

A bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheswari and Sanjiv Khanna allowed senior advocate Shyam Divan to file within a week a fresh plea challenging the EC by the 'Central Vista Committee' to the project.

The cumulative tally of southern states - AP, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana, Kerala and the Union Territory of Puducherry was 24,855 on Wednesday.

The Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) will be set up as a single overarching umbrella body for the entire higher education, excluding medical and legal education.

The policy has proposed flexibility for higher education institutions to offer students multiple entry and exit points, including three- or four-year undergraduate programmes.

IndiGo, India's largest airline, said on Wednesday it planned to raise at least 20 billion rupees ($268 million) through the sale and leaseback of planes and other assets, after reporting its steepest quarterly loss in at least five years.