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Coronavirus | Mumbai civic body to distribute free masks to offenders fined for not wearing one in public spaces

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to distribute masks for free to Mumbaikars who don’t wear them in public spaces and are fined

No need for religious conversions in India as Hindus are free to read Quran or Bible, says Uma Bharti

The BJP leader’s remark is in reference to the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Bill, 2020, which the State government has planned to table in the coming Assembly session.

Patnaik expels MLA from BJD for “anti-people” activities

An official release issued by the BJD said: “Pradeep Panigrahi, MLA Gopalpur is expelled from the primary membership of the party with immediate effect for his anti- people activities.”

First case under new ordinance against unlawful conversion lodged in U.P.

FIR lodged on the complaint by father that the accused wanted to ‘coerce, coax and allure’ his daughter into converting.

CoBRA commando killed, 9 injured in IED blast in Chhattisgarh's Sukma

The incident took place at 8.30 p.m. near the Arabraj Metta hills under the Chintagufa police station limits while an anti-Maoist operation was under way

8 Rohingya arrested in Assam

The police in southern Assam’s Hailakandi district arrested eight Myanmar-origin Rohingya people, five of them minors, who were said to have entered

Coronavirus | Rajasthan slashes RT-PCR test rate for private labs

The rate had been reduced from ₹1,200 to ₹800 following a drop in the prices of test kits

Coronavirus | Active cases in Maharashtra inch towards 90,000

Mumbai, Pune report more than 1,000 new cases

Maharashtra govt. ignoring farmers, dragging feet on Maratha quota: Fadnavis

Former CM lists MVA govt.’s failures

West Bengal spent ₹4,000 cr. to tackle COVID-19, says TMC

Centre not providing enough monetary support to deal with pandemic, party says; State adds 3,459 cases, 52 deaths

Odisha forms SIT to probe killing of 5-year-old

High Court asked to appoint a sitting judge to monitor investigation

Rajasthan slashes COVID-19 test rate for private labs

Rate now cut to ₹800 from ₹1,200: CM

Punjab, Haryana CMs trade barbs

Manohar Lal accuses Amarinder of instigating farmers’ protest, latter says it is spontaneous

Odisha to compensate fishermen

The Odisha government has decided to compensate fishermen for the loss or damage of nets if gharials get entangled during fishing in the Mahanadi

Cong. hits out at Haryana CM

They also question PM’s silence on farmers’ protest

Five CoBRA commandos injured in Naxal triggered IED blast in Chhattisgarh

The injured personnel are being evacuated by a helicopter, officials say

Coronavirus | Power cuts leave Kashmir’s COVID-19 patients gasping

Oxygen concentrators in home treatment break down.

Rajasthan farmers join “Delhi Chalo” march

NDA government’s policies put peasants and marginal farmers at a disadvantage, they say

Sip whole leaf: Assam tea gets a new form

A team of researcher-entrepreneurs has come up with the ‘world’s first’ whole leaf tea dip without a bag.

Dilli Chalo protest | Amarinder Singh questions Haryana CM’s decision to block farmers

Punjab CM dismisses Manohar Lal’s charge that he is inciting the protesters.

‘Dilli Chalo’ protest | Congress leaders hit out at Haryana CM

Congress leaders of Haryana and Punjab on Saturday hit out at Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal, accusing the State government of adopting an

35-year-old man kidnapped in Tripura

₹1.5 lakh demanded as ransom to free him.

Chirag downplays BJP fielding Sushil Modi for seat won by Ram Vilas Paswan

The LJP founder had got elected from the seat last year after it fell vacant following his cabinet colleague Ravi Shankar Prasad’s election to the Lok Sabha.

West Bengal to construct ‘Apur Sansar Park’ as tribute to Soumitra Chatterjee

Chatterjee had essayed the role of Apu in the 1959 film which is part of the Apu trilogy directed by legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray

J&K approves policy to improve telecom, internet connectivity in U.T.

Permits with two years’ validity will be issued for laying optical fibre cable network and installing telegraph infrastructure on open land.

Security beefed up ahead of Amit Shah’s visit to Manipur

The police said on Saturday that an intelligence report had been received on movements of insurgents in some areas of the Imphal East district.

Left delegation meets U.P. Governor, expresses concern over ‘anti-democratic’ ways of police functioning

The memorandum addressed to President Ram Nath Kovind sought his intervention to Uttar Pradesh’s state of affairs, alleging that arrests are being made in the State even for for distributing pamphlets

Will oppose U.P. Bill on conversions: Akhilesh Yadav

The State Cabinet earlier this week gave the nod to the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020

UP journalist charred to death

A journalist working with a Hindi newspaper was charred to death in his house under suspicious circumstances in Balrampur district of Uttar Pradesh,

Sparkling stones found in Nagaland could be quartz, say geologists

Accidental discovery of crystal by a farmer while digging had triggered ‘diamond’ rush

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