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March of coronavirus continued unabated in the two coastal districts that tallied 237 fresh cases on Sunday, a day that Dakshina Kannada (DK) scaled yet another peak with 196 cases and Udupi tallied 41. The Grim Reaper came calling on patients with comorbidities harvesting five souls to take the total tally of deaths in Dakshina Kannada district to 46. The spurt also saw DK’s tally rise of positive cases rise to 2230 and Udupi’s to 1608.

Amitabh Bachchan's fans prayed for his speedy recovery after news started coming in the he was found Covid-19 along with son Abhishek Bachchan, daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and granddaughter Aaradhya. Odia celebs also posted get well soon messages for the megastar.

Bollywood filmmaker Ram Gopal Verma has become the target of Odia netizens for his ill-intended tweets on Odisha.

Khanna police have arrested two drug peddlers after recovering 47kg of ganja from their possession on Ludhiana-Delhi highway.

Five persons were killed and one injured after being struck by lightning in Jharkhand's Dumka and Giridih districts, officials said.

The crime data from the previous two years have revealed that opium, pills and illicit liquor continue to pose a major challenge for the Patiala police. During the last two years, the cops have recovered around 70kg of opium and over 10 lakh pills while fighting drug menace. Besides, illicit liquor also continues to be a cause of concern for the law enforcers in the district.

Dakshina Kannada district minister Kota Shrinivas Poojari temporarily put a lid on rumors and social media forwards swirling about an imminent lockdown in the district due to a steady uptick in Covid-19 positive cases.

A man killed his sister in a village near here on Sunday fearing she would stake claim over their ancestral property, police said.

In a bizarre incident in Uttar Pradesh, four people were injured when two groups clashed with each other here amid a debate over the encounter of dreaded gangster Vikas Dubey, police said on Sunday.

Two aides of slain Uttar Pradesh gangster Vikas Dubey were remanded in judicial custody for 14 days by a court in Thane, an official said on Sunday. The two, identified as Arvind alias Guddan Trivedi (45) and his driver Sushilkumar alias Sonu Tiwari (30) were held on Saturday by Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad from a chawl in Dhokali area of Thane.

Suspected Maoists blew up a forest guest house in Barkela forest area in Chaibasa in West Singhbhum late on Saturday. According to the police on Sunday, a Maoist squad consisting of about 100 rebels used intensified explosives and LPG cylinder to blow the double storied guest house building.

Serological survey has been started in Bhubaneswar from Saturday onwards. On the very first day, 530 samples have been collected from 15 wards for the survey to figure out the extent of the spread of the coronavirus.

Five more persons died of Covid-19 infection in state, four of who were diabetic. As many as 570 people tested positive for the virus on Saturday, bringing the infected count in the state to 12,526.

Singh said, "On July 2, I received a call from SO Chaubeypur, Vinay Tiwari (suspended now) at around 12:00 am following which we went for the arrest.We parked our vehicles around 2-2.5 km away from the spot.

The intensive care unit (ICU) beds in the two 500-bed Covid hospitals, KIMS and SUM, in Bhubaneswar were 100% occupied while the occupancy in general beds is around 70%, the government authorities said.

After a dentist in Surya Nagar area of Bhubaneswar contracted Covid-19 it has become a catch-22 situation for both dental patients and dentists to see each other during the pandemic. Though a few dentists have resumed operations in their clinics by offering consultations with Covid-19 guidelines, the infection in a dentist has left them worried and many of them are planning to bring down shutters of their clinics.

Under the Smart City project, water supply to the city will be connected to the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA). The board of directors has given the nod for the project, which is expected to make the water supply system more efficient and effectively monitor its working. Tender for the project will be called shortly.

Leader of peasants' rights organisation Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) Akhil Gogoi, who is lodged in Guwahati Central Jail on charges of sedition, on Saturday evening tested positive for Covid-19.

Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said non-Covid morbidity and mortality cases are increasing in Guwahati because majority of private hospitals are refusing treatment without Covid-19 test results.