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Centre urges curbs in 46 high positivity districts Special Correspondent

Advisory comes as new cases cross 40,000 mark again

Karnataka insists on RT-PCR test for Kerala, Maharashtra travellers

Tamil Nadu’s seroprevalence stands at 66.2%

Bhubaneswar achieves vaccination target

Kerala breaks single-day vaccination record

National

National

No further sentence after life sentence: Supreme Court

Krishnadas Rajagopal Order directing convict to spend another 10 years in jail after completing life term irrational, says court

File photo of Supreme Court of India in New Delhi

National

₹90 lakh indemnity for woman bedridden due to negligence

Legal Correspondent She was 14 years old when she fell ill on a school tour

International

In this file photo taken on August 21, 2020, renters and housing advocates attend a protest to cancel rent and avoid evictions in front of the court house amid Coronavirus pandemic in Los Angeles, California.

International

Frustration as Joe Biden, Congress allow eviction ban to expire

AP U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision announced days before the eviction deadline on midnight on Saturday stunned many in Congress and exposed a rare divide between the President and his party

People riding bicycles and scooters wait to cross an intersection during rush hour in Beijing. File

International

China, India miss U.N. deadline to update emissions targets

AP China is the country with the world’s highest emissions, while India is third

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Many migrant labourers went back to their villages and survived by taking up work in Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) projects during the COVID-19 lockdown.

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Data | Urban workers hit the most during national COVID-19 lockdown

Vignesh Radhakrishnan Sumant Sen Jasmin Nihalani Amount of work available for workers in India reduced substantially in the period coinciding with the national lockdown during the first COVID-19 wave

Relatives perform last rites of COVID-19 victims at Adarsh Nagar Moksha Dham, amid surge coronavirus cases in Jaipur.

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Data | India's excess deaths could be highest among nations with the most recorded COVID-19 fatalities

The Hindu Data Team The share of registered deaths where the cause was medically certified, was the lowest for India among the countries considered

Staff Reporter Districts in the central region reported 376 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Sunday. There was an increase in the number of cases reported, compared to the previous days. The number of deaths, however, continued to be low with four casualties reported due to COVID-19 in the central districts.Two patients succumbed to the illness in Tiruchi while one patient each died in Perambalur and Thanjavur. The other six districts reported no COVID-19 deaths.In Thanjavur, 126 patients tested positive for

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75 women undergo laparoscopic sterilisation

Special Correspondent As many as 75 women have undergone laparoscopic sterilisation in three camps at government health facilities in Dakshina Kannada this year since the resumption of service on July 26. This procedure was not taken up early this year because of the second wave of COVID-19.In the camp held at the Government Hospital in Belthangady on Saturday, a total of 26 women underwent the procedure. As many as 27 women underwent the procedure at the Government Lady Goschen Hospital here on July 27. On July 26,