Up to 22 devaswom employees reportedly tested positive for the virus on Friday. Devotees will not be able to enter the famous temple of Lord Krishna here for two weeks starting on Saturday and the Thrissur district administration declared the area around it a COVID-19 containment zone. The decision to …
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Minister of food and consumption Piyush Goyal tells TOI that the government is open to addressing farmers’ concerns, but adds that the amendments are intended to benefit growers across the country. He also says that the movement appears to have been infiltrated by ultra-leftists. Excerpts from a conversation with Sidhartha, …
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India recorded 29,398 new cases and 414 deaths in the past 24 hours on Friday, bringing the overall tally and death toll to 9,796,769 and 142,186, respectively. Total active cases remained below 400,000 for the sixth day in a row, while the total number of people who recovered from the …
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Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja reported that a new genus of malaria has been detected in the state. Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja reported Thursday that a new genus of malaria called “plasmodium ovale” was detected in the state. The disease was detected in a soldier traveling from Sudan. …
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Voting for 8,116 districts in 451 local bodies in Kottayam, Ernakulam, Thrissur, Palakkad and Wayanad districts will take place in the second phase of local body surveys in Kerala on Thursday. Voting will begin at 7 am and close at 6 pm. Up to 12,643 polling stations have been installed …
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NEW DELHII: Five states – Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka, West Bengal and Delhi – account for 54% of total active Covid-19 cases in the country, Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said on Tuesday, underscoring the downward trend. of the pandemic in India. even as many countries are still witnessing an increase in …
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the Bharat bandh called Tuesday in support of farmers garnered a tepid response across the country, with reports of disruptions to normal life in just a few states such as Telangana, Andhra and Odisha. While there were no reports of violence in Punjab, the movement of vehicles, including buses, was …
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NEW DELHI: As daily cases of Covid-19 in the country continue to fall after peaking nearly three months ago, India is among the two nations hardest hit by the pandemic that have yet to be hit by a second wave of infections. Eight of these countries have seen or are …
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With Congress and the LDF speaking in unison against the Union governmentThe decision to name the new research facility in the Rajiv gandhi Biotechnology Center here after the ideologue RSS MS GolwalkarBJP politicians on Sunday issued statements supporting the decision. “He was Professor of Zoology at the Hindu University …
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NEW DELHI: One day before your Bharat bandhAgricultural unions said Monday they were adamant about not allowing any political leader to take the stage during the protests, which would be observed “peacefully” and without disrupting ambulance and emergency services. The opposition parties, which are in power in Punjab, Delhi, Rajasthan, …
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