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Irfan Sonu Sheikh Mansuri, the accused, alleged that the attack was carried out at the behest of a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader in Maharashtra.

In another judgment recently, the Supreme Court had held that there cannot be any rigid yardstick for evaluating dying declarations.

The NH 114A (22 km) from Basukinath to Dumka Tower Chowk will be widened and strengthened, and the Basukinath-Dumka road will be turned into two lanes at a total cost of 148.24 crore

The states may be advised to utilise the facilities in the private sector to the maximum to achieve the desired testing capacity, it said.

Amid rising number of COVID-19 cases, the BMC had decided to seal the residential complexes with five or more infections.

A high-level investigation at IG range level initiated as several local policemen being suspended over their role.

The Railway Minister added that the decision has been taken keeping in mind the comfortability of passengers

Senior BEST official said the operator has a huge amount of money lying in its coffers, but no bank is willing to take it from the undertaking's 100-150 collection points after a contract with a leading private sector bank ended last year.

27,603 health care workers and 13,796 front line workers have been vaccinated against the virus so far

Over 22 lakh registrations were recorded on Friday till 9 pm. India administered over 7 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines till 9 pm on Friday.

CM Yogi Adityanath has also decided to give a day's leave to employees, of government and private sector, on the day of their vaccination.

Schools have been asked to continue online classes until further orders by the Delhi government.

Key candidates contesting in the 2021 Assembly elections from Chengalpattu constituency are: M. Gajendran of AIADMK, M. Varalakshmi of DMK, Dr. A. Sathishkumar of AMMK, M. Muthtamilselvan of IJK, Sanjeevinathan of NTK

Key candidates contesting in the 2021 Assembly elections from Virugambakkam constituency are: Virugai V. N. Ravi of AIADMK, A. M. V. Prabakar Raja of DMK, B. Parthasarathy of DMDK, Snehan of MNM, Rajendiran of NTK

This comes days after a Covid-19 positive man died after he was denied admission in eight hospitals in Indore.

Once the wages code comes into force, there will be significant changes in the way basic pay and provident fund of employees are calculated.