Karnataka adds 2,130 new Covid cases, 4 more deaths

A 32-year-old man died in the fire hat broke out in Mumbai's West Andheri region earlier on Friday. 

DCP zone 9 Manjunath Singe said the man's body was recovered an hour ago. "We are yet to identify the body. The man was rushed to the Cooper Hospital after fire brigade officials removed him from the debris but was declared dead," said Singe.

The national capital on Friday added 1,245 new Covid cases and one more death, which pushed the caseload and death toll to 19,53,175, and 26,308. Friday's case count has been the highest in more than a month. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday visited a port at Black Sea as his country prepared terminals to export grain trapped by Russia’s five-month-old war, a report by the Associated Press said. 

Karnataka on Friday reported 2,130 new Covid cases and four more deaths, which pushed the caseload and death toll to 40,03,785 and 40,101 respectively, according to the state health department's bulletin. 

Odisha chief minister and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president Naveen Patnaik on Friday appointed Sasmit Patra as the party's leader in the Rajya Sabha. 

The 5G spectrum auction will continue on Saturday and the government has received bids worth ₹1,49,855 crore after 23 rounds of auction. 

Congress Lok Sabha MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who has stoked a controversy by calling newly elected President Droupadi Murmu "Rashtrapatni", issued an apology in a letter to her on Friday. Read more

Nihar Thackeray, the nephew of Uddhav Thackeray, on Friday announced his support to Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde, who led a revolt against Uddhav. The political crisis ended in Maharashtra earlier this month with the MVA government collapsing and a faction of the Shiv Sena- led by Eknath Shinde- taking over.

Nihar Thackeray is the son of late Bindumadhav Thackeray (Uddhav's elder brother) and is a lawyer by profession. 

The Tamil Nadu government on Friday announced a cut in fee to do compulsory rotatory residential internship (CRRI), bringing a relief to foreign medical graduates from the state. 

A police constable was seen brutally thrashing an elderly man at the Jabalpur railway station in Madhya Pradesh on Friday.

A level-2 fire was reported in Andheri West area on Friday at 4.30 pm near star Bazar on link road. As many as 10 tenders have been rushed to the spot. According to the Mumbai Fire Brigade, the fire is reportedly at a shop of 1000 sq ft area. No injuries have been reported yet. 

Tamil Nadu health minister Ma Subramanian said on Friday that no cases of the Monkeypox have been reported in the state amid reports of four cases of the virus confirmed in Nagercoil. 

“Not even a single Monkeypox case in Tamil Nadu. Fake news is circulating on social media that 4 Monkeypox cases confirmed in Nagercoil. Don't believe fake news. If we find any such case, we'll tell media to make people aware of the disease,” Subramanian told reporters. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Gujarat on Friday and will visit the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), India’s maiden International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) and will also lay the foundation stone of various projects.

Aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday stressed that safety of the citizens has been top priority for the government and there would be no compromise on it. Read more

Asha workers on Friday staged a protest in Baruipur town of West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, seeking anincrease in their salary and recognition as health workers. 

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed two FIRs in the Phulwari Sharif terror case. 

On Friday, a scuffle broke out between Congress MP Digvijaya Singh and Madhya Pradesh minister Vishvas Sarang  outside the District Panchayat office in Bhopal, after the Congress party alleged that the police andadministration were working under pressure of the state government during the local body polls. 

Indian Army chief General Manoj Pande on Friday proceeded on a visit to Bhutan. The visit will further cement the historical bilateral ties and Defence Cooperation between India and Bhutan, news agency ANI reported. 

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal attends the closing ceremony of Delhi government Happiness Utsav, plays the drums.

In case filed by Smriti Irani, Delhi HC tells Congress leaders to remove "slanderous material against her, her daughter on social media".

Congress leaders raise slogans against the ruling government in front of the Gandhi statue, a day after an alleged face-off between the party's interim President Sonia Gandhi and Union Minister Smriti Irani in the parliament.

Tobacco products manufactured, imported, or packaged on or after December 1, 2022, will display new image with textual health warning – ‘Tobacco causes painful death’: Union Health Ministry.

Union minister Smriti Irani on Friday visited the Rashtrapati Bhavan and met newly elected President of India Droupadi Murmu, a day after Irani raised – in the Lok Sabha – the issue of Murmu's insult by Congress leader Adhir Chowdhury who referred to Murmu as 'rashtrapatni' . Read more

Indian Army Engineers unit rescue four locals near the Chandak village during a flash flood in Poonch, J&K.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the 42nd convocation of Anna University in Chennai.