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Oz Sees Deadliest Day Of Covid As Omicron Ups Hospital Cases

1.3m Cases Of Total 1.6m Since Pandemic Began Were In Last 2 Weeks

‘Heart attack deaths fall 35%, cancer 15% from 2018 to 2020'

RTI data, based on death certificates issued by the BMC, show a 35% drop in heart attacks in 2020 in the city compared to 2018 (8,601) and nearly 4% compared to 2019 (5,849). Cancer deaths too dropped by 14%-15% in 2020 (8,576) compared to two pre pandemic years of 2018 (10,073) and 2019 (9,958).

Vehicle registrations show 8% growth in state in 2021

Vehicle registrations in Maharashtra went up by 8% in 2021 compared to 2020, said state transport commissioner Avinash Dhakne on Tuesday.

REBUILDING PROCESS BEGINS

India Embark On Post Captain-Kohli Era In First One-Dayer Vs South Africa Today

Prolonged delay in executing death rap has a dehumanising effect: HC

The Bombay high court on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of sisters Renuka Shinde (50) and Seema Gavit (48) to life term for kidnapping 13 children and brutally killing five of them.

No hunger death, says govt. You expect us to believe it, asks SC

Open Community Kitchens In Rural Areas, Says SC

Man in US watches Kanpur home being burgled, alerts cops

Technology saved a house from being burgled when a resident of Kanpur, who was in New Jersey, United States, informed the local police in the Uttar Pradesh city after watching a live CCTV footage of burglars breaking into his residence in Shyamnagar area of Kanpur on Monday night. Vijay Awasthi, a software engineer received an alert on his mobile phone. The signal was from the sensors he had installed at his ancestral house in D block of Shyamnagar.

India extends $500m credit line to Sri Lanka

 Looking to further step up “critical support” for Sri Lanka, which is battling an acute shortage of foreign exchange, India has offered a new line of credit (LoC) of $500 million to the island neighbour for purchase of petroleum products.

Fatalities jump in Maha to 53, highest in over 100 days

A day after the Monday low thanks to restricted testing on weekends, Maharashtra reported a 26% rise in daily case detection to 39,207 on Tuesday and a steep 120% jump in Covid deaths. The state registered 53 fatalities, the highest in over 100 days since October 8 (59).

Deaths in 3rd wave nowhere close to 2nd wave casualties

Daily Covid-19 deaths may be inching upwards in the state but the numbers are nowhere close to the casualties seen during the raging second wave.

2 precious births at zoo get their names: Tiger cub Veera & penguin chick Oscar

The Royal Bengal tiger pair, Shakti and Karishma, at the city’s Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan and Zoo in Byculla, popularly known as the Byculla Zoo, gave birth to a female cub on November 14 last year. The two-month-old cub has been named Veera.

Soon, students can take up engineering courses in Gujarati, Punjabi and Odia

Several colleges informed the apex body that English-medium students are found looking up reference material in Hindi

‘PLAYERS RESPONDING TO CHANGES'

Ahead Of The ODI Series, Vice-Captain Jasprit Bumrah Allays Transition Fears

‘Omicron wave ebbing in Mumbai; in rest of India, it could linger till March'

The waning of the Omicron wave has begun in Mumbai, but it may take at least another month before the rest of the country experiences a decline in the third wave.

Super Cup, super win for Real

Riyadh: Real Madrid were crowned Spanish Super Cup champions after goals from Luka Modric and Karim Benzema earned them a 2-0 win over Athletic Bilbao in Saudi Arabia on Sunday. Real took the lead in the 38th minute after Rodrygo sprinted past two defenders before passing to Modric, who rifled a shot into the back of the net.

RBI study: Omicron may be flash flood, not wave

The ‘State of the Economy’ report published by the RBI has said that the trajectory of the new Covid variant in South Africa has boosted hopes that Omicron will be more of a flash flood than a wave.

Days before Oly, China's daily cases highest in nearly 2 years

Beijing On High Alert Over Lone Omicron Case; Strain Breaches Key Cities

No political bias, tableaux picked by panel of ‘apolitical experts': Govt

After Mamata, Stalin Urges PM To Step In

MMRDA contractor to pay ₹1cr fine for girder crash

Four months after a span of an under-construction elevated road, which was under construction, collapsed at Bandra Kurla on September 17 last year, the regional development authority, MMRDA, has penalised the contractor Rs 1 crore for “not taking adequate precaution, leading to the collapse”

Kathak legend Pandit Birju Maharaj passes away at 83

Legendary Kathak exponent Pt Birju Maharaj,who took the traditional Indian dance form tothe world, died at his home in Delhi in the early hours of Monday.

HC: Unbelievably, Brahmapuri report and map made in a day

The Bombay high court has found that on the Kolhapur district collector’s direction a report and map were prepared in May 2018 to show an archaeological site to be over 100 metres away from its location so that the under-construction new Shivaji bridge on the Panchganga fell outside the no-construction zone.

Fewest daily city cases in '22 take tally past 1m, deaths up

Mumbai: Nearly 680 days after the pandemic started, the city’s Covid-19 caseload touched the 1 million mark on Monday. Only the US, India, Brazil, the UK, France, Russia and Turkey have seen more patients than Mumbai in the two-year-long pandemic so far.

Eyeing sops, Punjab farmers aren't repaying loans, SC told

Bench: If Bank Is Liquidated, You Will Get Nothing

Deported Djokovic gets a hero's welcome in Serbia

Novak Djokovic returned to a hero’s welcome in Serbia on Monday after Australia deported the world men’s tennis

Shocked By Move To Drop R-Day Tableau: Mamata To PM

The state government might bring the tableau to Kolkata if it isn’t showcased in New Delhi.

Karamchari To Karamyogi

Meritocracy has transformed cricket, streaming & PE. A lesson for civil service reform

Growing Cases Among Elderly A Worry, Swift Care Must: Docs

The percentage of senior citizens falling sick with Covid has been increasing steadily in Maharashtra over the past 15 days, a reading of the daily analytical reports from the state’s Medical Education and Drug Department showed.

Strategic Balance Is Needed To Ace In Board And Competitive Exams

It is important to understand the difference between the board exam and the competitive exams, writes Ankit Kapoor

Severe Immune Effect Seen In Delta Absent In Omicron: City Hosp Data

Cytokine storm, a severe immune reaction that was seen in many Delta patients after seven to eight days, was not reported in a single case of Omicron treated at SevenHills Hospital, Andheri.

‘BJP To Repeat 2017 Feat In UP, Despite Defections, Farm Stir'

Former UP minister Dara Singh Chauhan (L) joins Samajwadi Party in presence of party president Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow on Sunday. The SP chief said he would lodge a written complaint with the Election Commission that BJP workers from Gujarat and other states are being brought to UP to hatch conspiracies