Breaking News: Maharashtra's daily Covid-19 cases soar to 8,470

Vaccination will not happen in Pimpri Chinchwad tomorrow as workers of vaccination centres will be given weekly off, says Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation.

Maharashtra's daily Covid-19 increased by 8,473 on Tuesday. The overall number of infection now stands at 5,987,521.

Indian health ministry declared Delta Plus variant of coronavirus, a 'Variant of Concern' in India.

5.52 lakh people vaccinated against Covid-19 in Maharashtra today, informs state health department.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman asked Infosys to address all issues (in new Income Tax Portal) in a meeting today. "Without further loss of time, improve their services, redress grievances on priority as it was impacting taxpayers adversely," said the finance ministry.

China’s military has raised new militias comprising Tibetan youths in the strategic Chumbi Valley in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) as part of enhanced efforts to recruit more Tibetans amid the standoff with India on the Line of Actual Control (LAC), people familiar with the developments said on condition of anonymity citing intelligence reports. Read more

Karnataka on Tuesday reported 3,709 new cases, 8111 discharges and 139 deaths. The number of active cases in the state is at 1,18,592. While the death stands at 34,164.

Congress to participate in the scheduled meeting of all parties of Jammu and Kashmir on June 24. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Congress President Sonia Gandhi today, Ravinder Sharma, Chief spokesperson, Jammu & Kashmir Congress announced.

Delhi reports 134 new Covid-19 cases, 467 recoveries and 8 deaths in the last 24 hours. The number of active cases in the city now stands at 1,918. The death toll is at 24,933.

Chirag Paswan, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader, said on Tuesday he expected the BJP to help sort things during the tussle between the 38-year-old and his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras to retain control of the outfit. Read More

The Taliban captured Afghanistan's main border crossing with Tajikistan, an Afghan provincial official and army officer said Tuesday, with some security forces abandoning their posts and fleeing across the frontier.

Bharat Biotech's Covaxin is likely to get clearance from Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) on Tuesday, news agency reported quoting sources.

More than half of the doses administered over the last few weeks were inoculated in rural areas, which makes it clear that rural outreach is possible. We are fully hopeful and confident that it's completely possible for us to cover rural areas, said Dr VK Paul, Niti Aayog member.

Rural coverage of vaccines has been remarkably emphasized, says Union health ministry in a statement on Tuesday. In a press briefing, VK Paul said, "63.7% of the total vaccine doses administered on Monday were in villages and 36% in urban areas."

Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) on Tuesday closed its Covid centre in Delhi's Chhawla area due to no admission of patients since last few days. Quarantine centre for jawans will remain active, news agency ANI reported.

Covaxin shows 77.8 % efficacy in phase 3 trial data in review by subject expert committee (SEC), news agency ANI reported citing sources.

The Consumer affairs ministry clarified on Tuesday that the Centre is not looking to ban flash sales on Flipkart, Amazon and other such sites, adding the e-commerce rules are not final. A flash sale is an instant, unannounced sales event that offers huge discounts for a limited period of time.

Haryana Director General of Police (DGP) Manoj Yadav said on Tuesday that 90 per cent of the state's police personnel have received the first dose of the vaccine against the Covid-19 disease. The vaccination drive for them started on February 4. "So far, 53,924 officers and jawans have got the first anti-Covid shot and more than 38,988 have received both doses," Yadava said in a statement.

Jharkhand's caseload of the Covid-19 disease climbed to 344,665 on Tuesday after 122 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours, according to the state health department's bulletin. Only one person succumbed to the viral during this period, taking the state's toll to 5,100.

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah announced on Tuesday that he along with Mehbooba Mufti and Mohammad Yusuf Tarigami will be attending Prime Minister Narendra Modi's all party meeting on J&K on June 24.

Justice Aniruddha Bose, a Supreme Court judge, recused himself on Tuesday from hearing petitions of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and state law minister Moloy Ghatak challenging the Calcutta high court order to deny them from filing an affidavit in connection with the 2016 Narada sting case. Read more

Madhya Pradesh health minister Prabhuram Choudhary said on Tuesday that the state has so far recorded five cases of the Delta plus variant of the Covid-19 disease.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday released a white paper on the mismanagement of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic and said the aim of this report is not to point fingers at the government. Read more

Residents of the national capital woke up to a warm morning on Tuesday as the minimum temperature settled at 32.6 degrees Celsius. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the maximum temperature is like to settle around 38 degrees Celsius.

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