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COVID-19

Foreign nationals can get vaccination in India Special Correspondent

Can use passport as ID document to register on CoWin portal, says Health Ministry

Oxygen supply: SC asks govt to present report on NTF’s proposals in 2 weeks

Noolpuzha becomes first tribal village in Kerala to achieve complete vaccination

DDMA orders implementation of GRAP for COVID-19 management

Vaccine reluctance high among senior citizens in Tamil Nadu

National

National

IAF focused on boosting capabilities after Balakot strikes, Galwan Valley clashes: IAF Chief

PTI The IAF Chief said the induction of the Rafale aircraft has helped in lifting the overall offensive capability of the Air Force

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches the Ujjwala 2.0 (Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana - PMUY) in Uttar Pradesh, through videoconferencing, in New Delhi on Aug. 10, 2021.

National

PM launches Ujjwala 2.0, targets previous govts for taking ‘decades’ to fulfil people’s basic needs

PTI “As we celebrate the 75th year of Independence this year and look at the progress in the past seven-and-a-half decades, we feel that some situations and conditions should have changed decades ago,” PM Modi said

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International

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. File

International

Afghanistan crisis U.S. Defence Secretary discusses Afghan situation with Pakistan Army chief Gen. Bajwa

PTI During the phone call on August 9, U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin expressed his interest in continuing to improve the U.S.-Pakistan relationship and build upon their multiple shared interests in the region, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said in a readout of the conversation

International

China recalls Lithuania ambassador over Taiwan office row

PTI The Chinese Foreign Ministry statement called on Lithuania to “immediately rectify its wrong decision, take concrete measures to undo the damage, and not to move further down the wrong path.”

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States All

States

AIKS holds Statewide agitation demanding higher milk prices

Shoumojit Banerjee It also appeals to Maharashtra govt. to fix FRP for milk along lines of sugarcane rates

States

Patil rules out change in BJP State chief

Staff Reporter ‘Don’t take seriously what Saamana says about our internal matters’

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Hyderabad

494 COVID-positive cases, 3 deaths in State

Special Correspondent As many as 494 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in the State, which also recorded three fatalities, according to the medical bulletin issued on Tuesday evening.The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits recorded 80 cases followed by Karimnagar (51), Warangal Urban (45), Nalgonda (33), Khammam (29), Peddapalli (28), Medchal Malkajgiri (26) and Rangareddy (23). Atleast 17 districts recorded single-digit cases with Narayanpet registering zero infections.The tally has reached

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Hyderabad

Rally over podu land issue

Special Correspondent To mount pressure on the TRS dispensation in the State to deliver on its reported pre-election promise of resolving podu farmers’ issues, the All India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha (AIKMS) and the CPI (ML-New Democracy) organised a protest march and a dharna in the town on Tuesday. Scores of podu farmers from the fringe areas of the forests in various mandals of the old undivided Khammam district took out a massive rally as part of the “podu poru yatra” to press for their charter of demands. Their main