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The new coronavirus cases reported in Maharashtra saw a spike to 6,005 on Tuesday, a day after reporting less than 5,000 new infections. Meanwhile, fresh fatalities rise to 177.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday said that Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, located in Mumbai has reported no new coronavirus cases. The active case count in the area stands at 38, news agency ANI reported.

Passengers flying to Chhattisgarh have to mandatorily display a negative RT-PCR report starting August 8. Fully-vaccinated passengers are also required to produce a negative Covid-19 report not older than 96 hours, the state government said.

Bollywood singer and actor Yo Yo Honey Singh's (Hirdesh Singh) wife Shalini Talwar has registered a case under "the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act". The Tis Hazari Court has issued a notice to Singh for August 28, 2021. Read more.

Delhi has reported 50 new COVID-19 cases along with four fresh fatalities, and 65 recoveries in a day, the health department's bulletin data showed. The positivity rate of the national capital stands at 0.08 per cent, news agency PTI reported.

Mumbai Sessions court has denied interim relief to actor Gehana Vasisth in the pornography case, and has set the next date of hearing to August 6. Read more.

The central government are set to disburse a sum of ₹19,000 crore to 9 crore farmers in the August 9 tranche under the PM-Kisan scheme.

The Union ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) on Tuesday said that the R-factor or reproductive factor of Covid-19 is above 1 in as many as 8 states in India.

Referring to Shiv Sena workers vandalising Adani signboard at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Airport in Mumbai, Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik said on Tuesday that Adani group took over the management control of the airport, but the way 'Adani Airport' was displayed before Shivaji's statue, hurt people's sentiments.

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday held a review meeting with officials on the flood situation in the state, after which he said that 1,600 people have been rescued till now by National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and their state-level counterparts. Read more

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday released the results of the class 10 examinations and 2,50,000 lakh students have secured 90% and above marks.

A helicopter of the Indian Army's aviation corps with at least five people on board crashed near the Ranjit Sagar Dam in the Basohli area of Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua, a senior police official said on Tuesday. Read more

Former US ambassador to India Richard Verma has said India may lead the world in every category and with the youngest workforce in the region, the South Asian country will hold that advantage until 2050. Read more

The Central Board of Secondary Education said on Tuesday that the results of Class 10 examinations will be announced at 12pm today.

India’s daily tally of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) climbed to 31,726,507 after 30,549 fresh cases were registered in the last 24 hours, according to the Union ministry of health and family welfare. As many as 422 patients succumbed to the viral disease and 38,887 recovered in the same period, taking the cumulative count of deaths and recoveries to 425,195 and 30,896,354 respectively. Read more

Authorities in Wuhan told news agency AFP on Tuesday that they will test all the residents of the city for Covid-19 after the first local infections were reported in more than a year.

The city of 11 million is "swiftly launching comprehensive nucleic acid testing of all residents", senior Wuhan official Li Tao said at a press conference.

An encounter started between terrorists and security forces in Chandaji area of Bandipora, the Kashmir Zone Police said on Tuesday.

"Encounter has started at Chandaji area of Bandipora. Police and security forces are on the job. Further details shall follow," the police tweeted.

As the Maharashtra government on Monday announced ease in the ongoing Covid restrictions in 22 districts of the state, Mumbai Congress chief Bhai Jagtap demanded that the local train service should at least restart for those inoculated with both doses of Covid-19 vaccine. Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Tuesday interact with the beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) in Gujarat through video conferencing. Read more