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People looking to get themselves tested for Covid-19 at private laboratories will have to shell out Rs 1,600 from now on. The Gautam Budh Nagar district administration on Thursday announced that prices for Covid test have been capped at Rs 1,600 instead of Rs 2,500.

South Western Railway's (SWR) Hubballi headquarters has revised timings of Bengaluru-Mangaluru-Bengaluru special trains delaying their departure time at Bengaluru and by advancing the departure timing at Mangaluru.

Covid-19 graph of coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi in Karnataka saw a mini-plateauing on Thursday with nine additional cases compared to the 568 on Wednesday. Out of this, Dakshina Kannada added 350 new cases and Udupi 277. Total positive cases in DK as on date are 16,112 and that in Udupi is 13,572. Active cases in DK district that reported nine Covid-19 related deaths is 3,273 and that in Udupi with four deaths stands at 1,897.

A mentally disturbed man, who was roaming on the city streets in rags and was throwing stones at shops for the past three years, has been reunited with his family, thanks to a Mulky-based rehabilitation centre.

Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri will visit the states of Bihar and Jharkhand to review Darbhanga and Deoghar airports on September 12.

In a major crackdown on cannabis since the sandalwood drug racket controversy panned out, the Bengaluru police seized 1,350 kgs of cannabis in two separate raids at Kalaburagi district in north Karnataka.

Bharatiya Kisan Union's (BKU) Haryana unit launched its state-level protest against three agriculture ordinances of the Centre and marched towards Pipli grain market from different parts of Ambala, Kurukshetra and Yamunanagar to hold 'Kisan Bachao Mandi Bachao' rally despite ban by the district administration on Thursday.

Gujarat's Bharuch police on Thursday arrested four robbers involved in the sensational broad daylight robbery that took place on September 7 at a jewellery shop located in Panch Batti in Bharuch town in Gujarat. According to the police, the robbers hail from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh and reside in Surat. The kingpin - who is a textile engineer - was employed at a textile company located in Surat.

As many as 15 people availed the services of the suicide helpline started by Sharda hospital in a month. Of the 15, five had opted for OPD consultation and the remaining was counselled over the phone.

Southern Railway much to the delight of stakeholders has initiated a multi-pronged approach to augment train handling capacity at Mangaluru Central Railway station.

Over 1 lakh people have been cured of Covid-19 in Assam till September 8, with the recovery rate increasing to 77.4%.

As many as 51 sitting and 35 former MPs and MLAs of the northeastern states are accused in 87 cases pending in different courts in the region. Among them, the cases against 11 sitting and nine former elected representatives relate to offences punishable with life imprisonment.

While Noida’s Covid recovery rate has been consistently good, private Covid facilities across the district are reporting that around 10% to 15% of their recovered patients have developed inflammation in the lungs or heart muscles. Some have also opened post-Covid clinics for follow-up treatments of such patients.

Two security personnel lost their lives in the gunfight with Maoists in Odisha's Kalahandi district, police said on Thursday.

Fifty-four frontline workers have so far succumbed to Covid-19 in the state, an official source said on a day the toll went up to 580 with the death of 11 more patients. Among the Covid warriors to have died, 11 were doctors. On Wednesday, 3,748 more tested positive for the virus, taking the Covid count to 1,35,130.

“To open schools or not to open” is the big question that the state government is mulling over since the Union health ministry released an SOP for partial reopening of schools for students of Classes IX to XII.