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After Channi in Punjab, Congress shifts focus to Dalits

The Congress aim is to make inroads in the northern Indian states in this community which has gone away from the Congress and are with the BJP and regional parties. Ahead of the elections, Congress leader Harish Rawat had set the ball rolling that he wants to see a Dalit community leader as Punjab Chief Minister.

Scribe dies after rescue team boat capsizes in Odisha

Two employees of regional news channel Odisha Television (OTV) — chief reporter Arindam Das and cameraperson Prabhat Sinha — were also there in the rescue boat, which overturned and capsized due to the strong current in the river.

Delhi, Covid-19

Covid will end with Delta, to continue as endemic risk: Ex-FDA chief

“This becomes a more persistent, endemic risk. So, you continue to have coronavirus spread, but not at the same rates we’re seeing right now, and it settles into … more of a seasonal pattern, and basically becomes a second flu, (but) probably more pathogenic than the flu,”

Steer clear of ‘old dirty guys’ in Goa Congress: Catholic priest to Mamata

“This is a cry coming out from the depths of the heart of a genuine Goan who bleeds for Goa. We are hearing that old dirty guys from the Congress and other parties are planning to join the Trinamool. Madam Mamta and Mr. (Derek) O’Brien and all didis, girls and boys, please listen to what I am saying,”

UddhavThackeray

Most Maha schools set to reopen on Oct 4 – with restrictions

All schools will prepare an isolation centre to handle any student who is detected Covid-19 positive, full vaccination is compulsory for all teaching as well as the non-teaching staff, and all protocols shall be stringently followed during the school hours.

‘China planned to release enhanced coronavirus in bat caves in 2018’

According to the group, a project named DEFUSE headed by Dr Peter Daszak, president of US-based non-profit EcoHealth Alliance, proposed to reduce the threat of bat-borne coronaviruses by genetically enhancing them and releasing them among bats in Yunnan around 2,000km south west of Wuhan in 2018, the Daily Mail reported.