Mon, 24 May 2021 20:34:58
Marriage functions will not be allowed to be held in Udupi district till the end of the current lockdown period on June 7, Deputy Commissioner G Jagadeesha said on Monday.
He told reporters at Udupi that the decision was taken at a video conference with district-in-charge Minister Basavaraj Bommai and MLAs in the district.
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Mon, 24 May 2021 20:23:55
Minister in-charge of Udupi and Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday instructed the Udupi district administration to reserve 10 beds in Udupi government district hospital to treat patients affected by black fungus.
Reviewing the COVID-19 situation in Udupi through a video conference from Bengaluru, the Minister said that a person died due to black fungus infection in Udupi. Another patient
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Mon, 24 May 2021 20:19:09
The final decision on the fate of Class 12 board exams will be based on widest possible consultative process, and it will also be the best possible option keeping in mind the current situation and students' future prospects, government sources said on Monday.
They said the high-level meeting, which was held on Sunday and was attended by several Union ministers and representatives from states, r
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Mon, 24 May 2021 20:14:44
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday pointed out that the Centre, despite promising all forms of assistance to combat Cyclone Yaas, has agreed to provide an advance of only Rs 400 crore, while smaller states such as Odisha and Andhra Pradesh are being given Rs 600 each.
Banerjee, following a meeting of Home Minister Amit Shah with chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Be
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Mon, 24 May 2021 20:12:17
The demand by several states, including Kerala and Delhi, to vaccinate class 12 students before conducting board exams is a pertinent point but seems to be impractical at present, several health and education experts have said.
During a high-level meeting called by Ministry of Education to decide the fate of pending class 12 board exams, Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia had demanded that students
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Mon, 24 May 2021 20:06:59
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that even though vaccination is the key to controlling the pandemic the government does not seem to care as he claimed reduction in daily inoculation in the country.
He shared a graph showing the decline in the number of vaccine doses administered during April and May (till 20th) and pointed out that the average number of vaccination per day has fall
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Mon, 24 May 2021 20:01:13
The Indian cricket board on Monday said it will distribute 2000 oxygen concentrators of 10 litres each to various medical organisations, ramping up the country's overwhelmed healthcare infrastructure in its fight against the raging COVID-19 pandemic.
The deadly second wave of the pandemic has caused unprecedented health crisis with thousands losing their lives.
Last month, the national capit
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Mon, 24 May 2021 19:57:45
Sri Lankans are set to enter a seven-day lockdown period starting Tuesday, as the country continues to register record numbers of COVID-19 deaths and infections.
"We will only relax the current travel restrictions at 4 am tomorrow (May 25).
This will enable people to buy their essentials but no vehicular movement will be allowed," Army chief and Head of COVID-19 Prevention Task Force Shavend
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Mon, 24 May 2021 19:55:50
At the opening of the World Health Organization's main annual assembly on Monday, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hailed the sacrifices made by health workers around the world to battle the pandemic.
At least 115,000 health and care workers have died from Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, the WHO chief said Monday, calling for a dramatic scale-up of vaccination in all co
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