Madras high court caps school fees at 85% of last year’s charges

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Deshmukh seeks shield from arrest by ED, SC to hear plea

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Covid-19: All universal vaccine programmes to be linked to CoWin

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Supreme Court seeks report from Jharkhand on judge killing

Rising number of attacks on judges and lawyers compelled a worried Supreme Court on Friday to take suo motu cognisance of the alleged killing of Dhanbad additional district judge Uttam Anand and order the Jharkhand chief secretary and the DGP to submit the status of the investigations within a week.

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292 kids who lost parents to Covid registered for PM Cares assistance

The government on Friday informed Parliament that 292 children have been registered by states and Union territories till July 29 on the portal, created under PM Cares, for the scheme meant to provide support to children who have lost their parents, surviving parent, adoptive parent or legal guardian due to Covid-19. It also informed the House that 87 children living in childcare institutions have been affected by Covid-19, as per data collected till July 23.

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Supreme Court to hear next week journos’ pleas on Pegasus row probe

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Opposition stalls Parliament; Pegasus ‘non-issue’, says minister

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Covid-19: Over 2 lakh pregnant women take first dose in a month

In a major boost for the vaccination programme, over 2.3 lakh pregnant women have received first dose of anti-Covid jabs in less than a month since vaccination against the infection was allowed for them, the government said.

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Covid-19: Tamil Nadu cluster infections up, a cause for worry

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India’s 7-day average of Covid cases crosses 40,000 again

Kerala reported a slight drop in fresh Covid-19 cases on Friday but numbers rose for the second straight day in Tamil Nadu even as India’s daily case count dipped marginally but remained above 41,000 for the fourth day running. India reported 41,454 fresh cases of the virus on Friday, down from 44,681 on the previous day, breaking a three-day streak of rising infections in the country.

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Mizoram CM says no harm to anyone, but armed cops stay put

Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga has assured that there will be “no restrictions” and “no harm” to non-Mizos entering the state. However, the CM’s assurance on Friday coupled with his reiteration from his Twitter handle that “NorthEast India Will Always Be One” came even as his government refused to withdraw its armed policemen deployed at Vairengte town on the outskirts of Cachar (Assam) border.

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NSO has blocked Pegasus use by some governments: Reports

Israeli surveillance software company NSO Group has temporarily blocked several government clients around the world from using its Pegasus spyware as the company investigates its possible misuse, Washington-based non-profit media outlet NPR reported.

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Mizoram front still tense, Assam holds border talks with Nagaland

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Now, communists turn to Ram to counter Parivar

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China seizes maps showing Arunachal as part of India

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In U-turn, Goa health minister says no deaths due to oxygen shortage in state

In a major U-turn on the floor of the assembly, Goa health minister Vishwajit Rane, who was the first to announce that many Covid-19 patients were dying in the state due to oxygen interruption at the state’s premier hospital Goa Medical College (GMC) during the second wave, on Friday denied any oxygen shortage-related deaths.

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Only 31% of Delhi’s informal workers got rations, 54% still have no ration cards: CPM survey

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Days after hexacopter shot down by cops, UAVs spotted in Akhnoor and Samba

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Mizoram Boundary committee asks people for support in fight for 'forefather's land'

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Chhattisgarh Assembly disallows tabling of BJP MLA's anti-conversion Bill

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Need to reinforce messages on Covid-appropriate behaviour, vaccine uptake: Centre

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Now, CPI willing to support Mamata's Trinamool Congress to fight BJP

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Nearly 5 deaths daily in judicial custody in the last three years: MHA

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BJP evasive on Pegasus, to blame for logjam: Congress

Congress on Thursday blamed BJP for the logjam in Parliament and said the government was “avoiding” discussion on the use of Pegasus spyware since it has “much to hide”.

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Celebs among 250 hit in sextortion racket

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Mamata asks Gadkari for more infra projects

Banerjee told reporters after the meeting, “I requested Gadkari-Ji that it will be good if we get a manufacturing unit in our state to make electric vehicles.”

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Senior ministers reach out to opposition, but no breakthrough in sight

He said the government had already agreed to hold a debate on all issues and wondered why the opposition parties were running away. “Government representatives have reached out to the opposition on several occasions as it wants Parliament to function smoothly,” the BJP leader said.

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BJP-led northeast alliance stays off border row

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Act against Moitra for her ‘unethical behaviour’: BJP MP

BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Thursday alleged in Lok Sabha that TMC member Mohua Moitra had used derogatory remarks against him during a parliamentary committee meeting on Wednesday. The MP from Godda raised the issue during Zero Hour, saying that the term used by the TMC MP was an insult inflicted on the entire Hindi-speaking people from UP, Bihar and Jharkhand.

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Covid surge prompts Centre to send team to Kerala

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Army chief Naravane and sr US commander Clarke talk to boost ties

The two generals also discussed “issues of mutual interests”, which is likely to have included the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan in wake of the rapid advances being made by the Taliban to grab territory there, said an official.

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Gods don't ask us to encroach upon roads & build temples: HC

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Eye on 2023 polls, Karnataka CM may have 5 deputies

With the 2023 assembly elections in focus, the new Karnataka chief minister, Basavaraj Bommai, is likely to opt for five deputy chief ministers and induct six to eight young new faces in his cabinet which can have a maximum of 34 members.

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PM Modi focuses on tech education in mother tongue in NEP speech

This emphasis on mother tongue as the medium of instruction will instil confidence in the students from poor, rural and tribal backgrounds.

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Mizoram bunkers, Assam build-up raise tensions on disputed border

Bunkers built by suspected Mizo trespassers just across the inter-state boundary in Barak Valley’s Karimganj district and an allegedly massive mobilisation of state forces by Assam to counter the move kept the border pot boiling for the fourth successive day since the violence in Cachar last Monday.

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Tamil Nadu withdraws 90 defamation cases targeting media outlets

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New normal? Parliament does business amid din

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34 Metro, Rapid rail projects under implementation across country

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No manual scavenging deaths in last five years, govt tells House

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Dalit children more likely to be stunted, shows study

A data narrative published by Ashoka University’s Centre for Economic Data and Analysis shows that stunting is much more likely among Dalit children in areas where caste-based untouchability is higher, such as the BIMARU states (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh).

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2.8K PILs on fundamental rights violation pending in Supreme Court: Govternment

The minister, in a written reply to a query, said about 3,036 such PILs have been filed since 2019.

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Student rush: Air India doubling flights to US from August 7

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146% rise in applications for ‘Study In India’ programme

The number of applications and online test takers to avail of the scholarships provided under the Study in India programme grew by 145.6% and 651.9% respectively, giving a major boost to the scheme, which otherwise was struggling to take off for the past three years. The number of countries from which students participated in the programme also grew significantly, from 12 in 2020-21 to 136 in 2021-22.

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Assam advises people against Mizoram travel

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CDSCO expert panel recommends nod to study on mixing doses of Covaxin, Covishield

An expert panel of India's central drug authority on Thursday recommended granting permission to the Christian Medical College (CMC) in Vellore for conducting a clinical trial of mixing of two Covid-19 vaccines -- Covaxin and Covishield -- official sources said.

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Ajay Maken continues discussions with Congress MLAs on Day 2 of his Rajasthan visit

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Senior cop seeks VRS to serve Lord Krishna

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Mizoram police yet to vacate border despite Delhi meeting

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Covid-19: Reopen schools, say academics, doctors, lawyers and parents

Over 50 academicians, including professors from IIT-Bombay, IIT-Delhi and Delhi University, doctors, lawyers and parents from Maharashtra, Delhi and Karnataka, have written an open letter to CMs of their respective states, presenting a case to reopen schools.

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I was on Assam side, we could not have fired 1st: Mizoram SP

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Goa assembly pays tribute to former Times Group chairman Indu Jain

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Additional district judge killed in road accident in Jharkhand

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Delhi doctor first proven case to suffer 3 Covid infections

A 61-year-old Delhi doctor is the first proven case to have suffered from three Covid infections — two of these SARS-CoV-2 bouts were caused by its Alpha and Delta variants 22 days apart.

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‘Beijing acting more repressively at home and more aggressively abroad’: Antony Blinken

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7 killed in J&K cloudburst, several missing, 9 die in HP flash floods

The remote village of Honzar in Kishtwar is a three-hour walk from the nearest road, but rescue teams from the Army, police and SDRF swung into action and reached the spot in time to save many lives.

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US, India avoid stumble on rights issue even as Blinken sends message to China by meeting Dalai Lama's aide

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Supreme Court: Privileges and immunity no shield for criminal acts in House

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that elected representatives can no longer go scot-free for acts of vandalism and violence inside a House and made them liable for prosecution for such acts by blowing away the traditionally misconstrued constitutional shield of "privileges and immunities".

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Opposition insists on Pegasus debate, BJP decries ‘manufactured matters’

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To seep up justice, Supreme Court fixes strict time limits for arguments

The Supreme Court on Wednesday took the first step towards allocating strict time schedule, as practiced by the supreme courts of the US and the UK, with a warning that violation of time limits would result in automatic indefinite adjournment of hearing.

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Man walks 200km to Supreme Court to prove he hasn’t converted

PhD scholar Praveen Kumar s covering a distance of over 200km on foot to reach the apex court with a petition to “reclaim his honour” after his name figured, inaccurately, on a list of thousand people allegedly converted to Islam by two Delhi-based Muslim clerics.

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18 migrants dead as truck collides with stranded bus in UP

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Gurdwara panel quits over Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami visit 'violations'

Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee chief Bibi Jagir Kaur said a five-member committee has been set up.

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Withdrawal of 'general consent' can't stop CBI graft probe against central staffers: HC

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