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Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday urged Union railways minister Piyush Goyal to accord necessary approvals and certifications to start a passenger train on the Haridaspur-Paradip new broad gauge railway line in August this year, to facilitate train connectivity to the Kendrapada district.

A total of 103 people have died and 56,71,018 people from 5,305 villages have been affected by the floods in Assam, a flood report from the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) stated on Tuesday.

Amidst surging Covid-19 cases in the coast, Dakshina Kannada district will have a change in guard to its response against the pandemic in 2013 IAS batch officer Dr K V Rajendra. He will replace Sindhu B Rupesh, who on September 7, 2019 took over as the 129th deputy commissioner of this district, to become only the second woman IAS officer to head the erstwhile undivided DK district after Ranjani Srikumar.

It’s common for human beings to be arrested for committing crime, but what’s unheard and almost rare is an animal being detained and taken to a police station for an offence.

Local police and the Gurugram Drug Control department on Tuesday, busted two big international drug rackets and seized drugs including narcotics and Covid-19 drugs worth lakhs.

It’s common for human beings to be arrested for committing crime, but what’s unheard and almost rare is an animal being detained and taken to police station for an offence.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik used a banyan tree, which had been uprooted by Cyclone Fani last year but which was successfully restored, to convey a message of resilience to the people of the state.

The man, who allegedly killed his five children, has proved to a be tough nut to crack for the police. On Monday, cops had to return empty-handed from Didwara village after the accused refused to identify the spot in a graveyard where he had allegedly buried his three children (two sons and an infant daughter).

A 20-year-old BPO worker was allegedly fined Rs 1,000 and abused verbally by a police officer on Saturday for “lockdown violations” when he was returning from work, despite carrying driving licence and related documents. He has registered a police complaint, claiming that this was the second time he was fined "for no reason".

Daily calls, ‘friendly watchers’ from the neighbourhood and affidavits -- these are among several measures that the administrations of Noida and Ghaziabad have put in place to keep a close tab on 155 asymptomatic Covid-19 patients under home isolation. For this, both the districts have appointed teams at their integrated Covid control rooms to ensure patients adhere to the rules.

The first five Rafale jets are expected to reach the Indian Air Force Station at Ambala Cantonment on Wednesday.

Finally, the much awaited fourth-generation and one of the most advanced flying machines of the Indian Air Force (IAF), Rafale aircraft is all set to land at its one of the strategic airbases at Ambala. Subject to weather conditions, the first batch of Rafale aircrafts is expected to arrive in Ambala on Tuesday. The five aircrafts took off from Dassault aviation facility, Merignac, France, on Monday morning. The batch includes three single seater and two twin seater aircrafts.

Over two dozen illegal colonies on the outskirts of the city may get electricity connections if the enforcement wing of the department of town and country planning fails to act against them by this month’s end.

Gurugram has been identified as one of the three districts in the state where sanitisation isn’t being done properly in containment zones. The state urban local bodies (ULB) has instructed authorities of Gurugram, Hisar and Rewari to sanitise containment zones regularly and put in “extra efforts” to contain the spread of infection.

Four new "Ro-Pax" vessels will operate on National Waterways No 2, stretching from Dhubri to Sadiya, for convenience of the inhabitants of Majuli river island and people of other parts of Assam, Transport Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary said on Monday. These vessels have low draft, good manoeuvrability in comparison to the earlier "Ro-Ro" vessels which had less manoeuvrability due to bigger size and high draft for which it faced difficulty in plying over River Brahmaputra.

Officials said the accused had even refused to undergo dope test while another accused, a jail inmate identified as Sukhvir Singh, was found intoxicated in his dope test reports.

From August 1, all 60 MS and MD students at Sharda University’s School of Medical Sciences and Research (SMSR), also known as Sharda Medical College, will be placed in Covid duty at Sharda hospital, an L3 Covid facility. With this, the hospital’s strength of 120 doctors on Covid duty will increase to 180.

For 37-year-old Rasathi, a resident of Puliyankandi tribal settlement in Aliyar near Pollachi, it was a tough call. After a prolonged dilemma and with a heavy heart, she decided to send her teenaged daughter to work.

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Partially decomposed body of a man was fished out from a canal in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, police said on Tuesday. It was spotted by locals in a canal near Chachli village, under Jewar police station area, on Monday evening, officials said.