News highlights: Delhi reports 1,367 new Covid cases, 1,042 recoveries and one death in the last 24 hours

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Smoke billows out after a massive fire broke out in a chemical factory, in Meerut

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India-Maldives Parliamentary Friendship Group to be constituted soon: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla

Telangana govt has not hiked fuel prices, Centre has no right to ask us to reduce taxes: CM K Chandrasekhar Rao

Bombay High Court grants interim relief from arrest till 20th June to NCP leader Eknath Khadse's wife Mandakini Khadse in connection with an alleged land deal in Pune

Puducherry promotes all students from Classes 1-9

Trinamool Congress calls PM Narendra Modi’s meeting with chief ministers "gyan baato" session, demands Centre clear dues it owes to West Bengal govt

Arvind Kejriwal to hold a rally in Bharuch, Gujarat on May 1st

Govt likely to reduce gap between second dose of Covid-19 vaccine and precaution dose from 9 months to 6 months

A team of Special Staff of Central District has busted a sex racket which was being run under the garb of a spa in East Patel Nagar and arrested 7 accused persons: Delhi Police

Mamata Banerjee calls PM meet on fuel price hike 'one-sided,' disagrees with him

West Bengal announces early summer vacation for govt and private schools due to intense heatwave in the state

Central African Republic adopts Bitcoin as legal currency

Indian Youth Congress takes out protest march in Delhi against arrest of Jignesh Mevani, an Independent MLA from Gujarat, by Assam Police, demand his release

Internet down in French cities after cable 'vandalism': sources

Russia withdraws from UN tourism body: UNWTO

Over 6,000 loudspeakers removed from religious places, volume of other 30,000 set to permissible limits across Uttar Pradesh following govt order: Police

Kerala govt brings back face mask mandate in wake of surge in Covid-19 cases in other parts of country

Tata Group approaches CCI for merger of Air India and Air Asia India

Cabinet approves Rs 820 crore financial support for India Post Payments Bank

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Jaishankar to visit Bangladesh, Bhutan from April 28-30

Uttar Pradesh State Information Commission has asked a public information officer to feed mid-day meals to 250 school students in Ghazipur as a "symbolic punishment" for the delay in replying to an RTI.

Congress appoints Uday Bhan as president of party's Haryana unit replacing Kumar Selja

PM Modi calls for scaling up infrastructure, manpower at medical colleges, district hospitals

We have to promote Covid-appropriate behaviour in public places: PM Modi

Administering vaccine to every eligible child at the earliest is our priority: PM Modi

Matter of pride for every Indian that 96% adult population in country has got at least one dose of Covid vaccine: PM Modi

We need to remain alert, says PM Modi citing rise in Covid-19 cases in some states in last two weeks

Despite managing the Covid crisis, as compared to other countries, we can see cases' uptick in states now. We have to stay alert. It's clear that the Covid challenge has yet not been surpassed, says Prime Minsiter Modi

PM interacts with chief ministers on emerging Covid-19 situation

Better to engage with world as who we are rather than pleasing the world, says Jaishankar

The country needs alternative agenda, not political fronts or political realignment, says KCR

The country has not performed the way Telangana has done so, claims KCR

The TRS chief also said thatTelangana has emerged as a role model for other states, but need to achieve even more.

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Delhi braces for extreme heat, yellow alert issued

On the precipice of another punishing heatwave spell, Delhi is predicted to see a jump of two to three degrees Celsius in the maximum temperature on Wednesday. The Safdarjung Observatory -- Delhi's base station -- had recorded a maximum temperature of 40.8 degrees Celsius on Tuesday.
It is expected to breach the 42-degree mark on Wednesday and soar to 44 degrees Celsius by Thursday, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

The maximum temperature may even leap to 46 degrees Celsius in parts of Delhi, a Met department official said.
The capital had recorded a maximum temperature of 43.2 degrees Celsius on April 21, 2017. The all-time high maximum temperature for the month was 45.6 degrees Celsius on April 29, 1941.(PTI)

Dehradun imposes Rs 500 fine for not wearing mask in public as Covid-19 cases rise

Uttarakhand | In view of the increasing rate of Covid-19 infection in the capital as well as the district, District Magistrate Dr R Rajesh Kumar has directed that a fine of Rs 500 should be collected from those who come out without masks in the city: DM Dehradun

Daily Covid-19 cases increase by 18%

India reported 2,927 fresh Covid-19 cases, 2,252 recoveries and 32 deaths in the last 24 hours, Union Health Ministry data showed.

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11, including 3 children, electrocuted during temple chariot procession in Tamil Nadu

In a tragic incident, at least 11 persons, including three minors, were electrocuted after a temple chariot came in contact with a high-voltage power line in Kalimedu village in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu in the early hours of Wednesday.

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Russian capture of Chernobyl put world on 'brink of disaster': Zelenskyy

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that Russia's capture of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the initial phase of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine had pushed the world towards the "brink of disaster".

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ONGC struggling to move Russian oil to Asia as sanctions bite

Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) is struggling to find a vessel to ship 700,000 barrels of crude from Russia's Far East, in a growing sign that complex trades involving one of Moscow's biggest partners are being interrupted by Western sanctions, sources say.

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At least 10 people feared dead after a temple car came in contact with a live wire at Kaliamedu in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu