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Assam elephants died in two groups 1 km apart

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The ‘freak’ lightning is being corroborated based on meteorological reports, the government says

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A veterinarian team checks the dead bodies of wild elephants suspected to have been killed by lightning, in Nagaon. File

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Taloja jail conditions very grim: family of Bhima Koregaon accused

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‘There are no doctors, nurses, support staff or medicines to look after the sick’

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A view of the Taloja Central Jail, in Navi Mumbai. File

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COVI-19 | 119 deceased Bihar doctors’ families yet to get compensation

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IMA seeks speedy disbursal of compensation for doctors who died due to COVID-19 in Bihar

Medics wearing protective suits sitting at a COVID-19 ward at Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH), in Patna. File photo

Assam’s fictional superhero Advitya all set to hit the screens in fancy outfit without mask

Director Arindam Sharma had to reshoot after losing footage of 2019 film

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A still from the first Assamese superhero film Advitya, reshot after a digital accident prevented it from being released in 2019

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A veterinarian team checks the dead bodies of wild elephants suspected to have been killed by lightning, in Nagaon. File

Assam elephants died in two groups 1 km apart

A view of the Taloja Central Jail, in Navi Mumbai. File

Taloja jail conditions very grim: family of Bhima Koregaon accused

Medics wearing protective suits sitting at a COVID-19 ward at Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH), in Patna. File photo

COVI-19 | 119 deceased Bihar doctors’ families yet to get compensation

A still from the first Assamese superhero film Advitya, reshot after a digital accident prevented it from being released in 2019

Assam’s fictional superhero Advitya all set to hit the screens in fancy outfit without mask

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People make their way along a junction during a parital lockdown imposed by the state government imposed to curb the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus in Siliguri on May 4, 2021.

Coronavirus | West Bengal govt announces complete lockdown from May 16-30

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Paresh Baruah, ULFA-I’s self-styled commander-in-chief. File

ULFA-I declares 3-month ceasefire

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A health worker vaccinates a woman at a drive-in vaccination facility at the National Sports Club of India in Mumbai. (Below): Long queues outside the BKC Jumbo Vaccination Centre in Mumbai.

Ground Zero | Coronavirus | Beating back the pandemic in Mumbai

Sonam Saigal The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has been meeting the second wave of the COVID-19 challenge on a war footing. Sonam Saigal reports on how the civic body learnt lessons from the first wave and adopted a decentralised approach which is showing results slowly but surely

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adiyanath. File

Bodies in rivers: U.P. CM orders patrolling

PTI ‘All those who died deserve cremation with respect’

Getting protected: Vaccine being administered to a person from the transgender community in Guwahati on May 14, 2021. Forty of them received the shots, and the intiative would be expanded to other parts of Assam, officials said.

Assam starts vaccinating transgender persons against COVID-19

Special Correspondent Covaxin doses offered at a shelter home for the community in Guwahati.

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A still from Zack Snyder’s ‘Army of the Dead’

A scene from ‘Ramyug’.

How AR Rahman’s ‘O Paalanhaare’ became a prayer board for people battling COVID-19

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The comments section under the devotional track from 2001 Hindi film ‘Lagaan’ is filling up with messages from doctors and patients

What’s coming to Netflix: ‘Army of the Dead’, ‘Sardar Ka Grandson’ and more

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Zack Snyder’s zombie heist thriller, Arjun Kapoor’s emotional comedy-drama and a documentary on legendary footballer Roberto Baggio are some of the highlights coming to the platform

'Ramyug,' another disappointing entry in Bollywood’s mythological genre

Aditya Mani Jha

Why has it proven so difficult for Indian creators to match the popularity of Ramanand Sagar’s 'Ramayan' and B.R. Chopra’s 'Mahabharat'?

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Manipur scribe, activist arrested for Facebook post

Coronavirus | Haryana Congress chief accuses State govt. of failing control Covid situation; CM says situation under control

Assam elephants died in two groups 1 km apart

Coronavirus | West Bengal govt announces complete lockdown from May 16-30

Tensions rise within alliance after Maharashtra govt. scraps 33% reservation in promotions

COVI-19 | 119 deceased Bihar doctors’ families yet to get compensation

No bodies floating in Ganga at Rae Bareli, says administration

But locals allege bodies were buried in sand

Bengal farmers get benefits of PM Kisan scheme

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says Centre was delaying the transfer

Punjab CM tells villagers to keep away outsiders

‘Rural areas seeing a surge in cases, we need to be very careful’

Assam starts vaccinating transgender persons against COVID-19

Covaxin doses offered at a shelter home for the community in Guwahati.

Mass testing drive launched in Agartala

The Tripura government has launched mass testing in areas of the Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC), which is the epicentre of COVID-19 infections

Plea seeks relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions for tea plantations near urban areas in Assam

Some tea factories and estates are within the 5 km radius of urban and semi-urban areas where 15-hours-a-day curfew and odd-even vehicle rules apply

Bodies in rivers: U.P. CM orders patrolling

‘All those who died deserve cremation with respect’

Coronavirus | 21 members of vulnerable tribes infected in Odisha

Activists warn of rapid spread among isolated communities

Centre, Odisha govt. transfer cash to farmers’ accounts

They also have a public spat of political one-upmanship

COVID surveillance in rural U.P. hit by lack of kits

Asha workers lack both protective gear and testing tools in the State’s drive to identify symptomatic persons

2 killed in Assam grenade blast

On May 11, a 12-year-old boy was killed in a similar explosion in the same Tinsukia district

Mamata Banerjee writes to PM Modi, urges him to be fair and quick in PSA plant allotment

She said the State, which was scheduled to get 70 PSA plants, has now been intimated that four such oxygen generating units would be set up in the first phase.

DJ held for hurting Gujarat CM's reputation through spoof video

‘The accused was identified as Pradeep Kahar, a resident of Kahar Mohalla in Dandiya Bazaar locality of Vadodara’

Move SC afresh for raising quota limit: Fadnavis to Maha govt

His statement comes a day after the Centre moved the Supreme Court seeking review of the May 5 majority verdict.

Malerkotla is Punjab’s 23rd district

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday declared Malerkotla as the 23rd district of the State. The Chief Minister made these

13 more COVID-19 patients die at Goa hospital; toll 75 in four days

The horror at the Goa Medical College and Hospital is continuing even as the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court is hearing petitions related to deaths during the "dark hours" at the premier hospital

Ambulance charges soar in Odisha as cases spike

Kin of patients are at the mercy of operators, with many unable to afford the costs

Probe ordered into death of 18 elephants in Assam

The hillock where a thunderbolt is said to have killed the pachyderms is close to the site for a controversial solar power plant

Bengal keeps vigil for corpses in Ganga

Corpses of suspected COVID-19 patients were found floating in the river in UP and Bihar

"Entire social fabric of society would get disturbed": HC dismisses plea seeking protection to live-in couple

Counsel for the petitioner says they will challenge the judgment in the Supreme Court.

Police shoot dead inmate at U.P. prison

Victim had shot dead two other inmates and held 5 as hostages

In Maharashtra, caste panchayat asks woman to lick spit for second marriage

The caste panchayat also ordered the woman to pay ₹1 lakh to it for her act, he said

Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar visits Assam areas bordering Bengal

He says it’s a shame that people had to go to neighbouring States for shelter

Native Indian turtles face U.S. slider threat across Northeast

Herpetologists have warned that the invasive red-eared slider, released in natural water bodies by people who keep them as ‘cute’ pets, could turn nasty for 29 native species of turtles and tortoises.

‘If Pappu Yadav is not released from jail within two days, I will go on fast,’ says his wife

‘My husband’s fight for common people and to help COVID-19 patients in all possible manner will continue,’ says the former MP.

Black fungus has claimed 52 lives in Maharashtra so far: Official

Mucormycosis, also known as black fungus, became a much talked about subject after some recovering and recovered coronavirus patients were found infected with the disease

Sombre Eid amidst pandemic in J&K

India, Pakistan armies exchange sweets across LoC

After Mizoram, African swine fever strikes in Meghalaya

Though 573 pigs are suspected to have died, the confirmed cases are 320.

Test positivityrate below 15%in Delhi now

The test positivity rate of COVID-19 cases fell to 14.24% in the city on Thursday, the lowest in a month, according to a health bulletin released by

Global tenders may speed up vaccination drive in Rajasthan

State to route procurement via National Health Mission for purchase of 1 cr. doses

‘Treatment rates fixed by Haryanagovt. exorbitant’

The Charkhi Dadri unit of the Congress Corona Relief Committee has demanded the immediate intervention of the State government to stop the alleged

Akali Dal accuses Cong. govt. in Punjab of ‘non-serious’ approach to COVID

Punjab’s former Deputy Chief Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Thursday accused the ruling Congress government of

Pvt. hospitals raided in Rewari

Raids were conducted at two private hospitals in Rewari on Thursday following complaints of charging over and above the rates fixed by the Haryana

15 more COVID-19 patients die in top Goa hospital, HC told

26 died at the same facility on Tuesday

Elderly prisoner chained to bed in Uttar Pradesh hospital

An elderly prisoner in Uttar Pradesh’s Etah district, admitted to a hospital with breathing issues, was chained to his bed by his leg with a

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar ignores Mamata view, visits riot-hit areas

Trinamool Congress says it is ‘violative of long-standing norms of procedures’

Coronavirus | Mounting biomedical waste poses a challenge in Mumbai, Pune

Standard operating procedures (SOPs) laid down on segregation and disposal

Lightning kills herd of 18 elephants in Assam

The incident happened in Kandali Proposed Reserve Forest

Coronavirus | Punjab, Haryana to go for global sourcing of vaccine

Both States aim at giving the jab for those above the age of 18

Priyanka Gandhi demands judicial probe into bodies in Ganga

Congress leader terms situation ‘inhuman and criminal’

Alternative to mercury BP monitor developed

We shall be launching it in the market soon, says IIT Ropar team

Sidhu asks Punjab CM to ‘stop firing’ from colleagues’ shoulders

Punjab’s dissident Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday asked Chief Minister Amarinder Singh to "stop firing from colleagues’ shoulders"

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