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State-wise details of Covid-19 cases in India

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New Delhi (NVI): The total number of coronavirus cases in India crossed the 6 lakh mark today and rose to 6,04,641 after 19,148 new cases were reported in a single-day, according to Health Ministry data.

Meanwhile, the total number of fatalities due to the deadly contagion rose to 17,843 in the country after 434 new fatalities were reported during this period.

In terms of total number of cases, Maharashtra continues to be the worst affected state with 1,80,298 coronavirus cases followed by Tamil Nadu with 94,049 and Delhi with 89,802 positive cases.

Total positive cases in States/UTs:

Andaman and Nicobar Islands- 100

Andhra Pradesh- 15,252

Arunachal Pradesh- 195

Assam- 8,582

Bihar- 10,249

Chandigarh- 446

Chhattisgarh- 2,940

Dadar Nagar Haveli- 26

Delhi- 89,802

Gujarat- 33,232

Goa- 1,387

Haryana– 14,941

Himachal Pradesh- 979

Jammu and Kashmir- 7,695

Jharkhand- 2,521

Karnataka- 16,514

Kerala- 4,593

Ladakh- 990

Madhya Pradesh- 13,816

Maharashtra- 1,80,298

Manipur- 1,260

Meghalaya- 52

Mizoram- 160

Nagaland- 459

Odisha- 7,316

Puducherry- 714

Punjab- 5,668

Rajasthan- 18,312

Sikkim- 101

Tamil Nadu- 94,049

Telangana- 17,357

Tripura- 1,396

Uttarakhand- 2,947

Uttar Pradesh- 24,056

West Bengal – 19,170

State/UT wise total death toll:

Andhra Pradesh- 193

Arunachal Pradesh- 1

Assam- 12

Bihar- 70

Chandigarh- 6

Chhattisgarh- 14

Delhi- 2,803

Goa- 4

Gujarat- 1,867

Haryana- 240

Himachal Pradesh- 10

Jammu and Kashmir- 105

Jharkhand- 15

Karnataka- 253

Kerala- 24

Ladakh- 1

Madhya Pradesh- 581

Maharashtra- 8,053

Meghalaya- 1

Odisha- 25

Puducherry- 12

Punjab- 149

Rajasthan- 421

Tamil Nadu- 1,264

Telangana- 267

Tripura- 1

Uttar Pradesh- 718

Uttarakhand- 41

West Bengal- 683

A total of 3,59,860 people have been cured or discharged from hospitals in India. There are around 2,26,947 active cases currently, according to the Health Ministry.

-CHK

Goa reopens for tourists, 250 hotels resume operations

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New Delhi (NVI): After months of lockdown, Goa will reopen for domestic tourists from today, where the tourists will have to carry COVID-19 negative certificate in order to enter the state while 250 hotels have been given permission to resume operations, Goa Tourism Minister said.

Goa Tourism Minister Manohar Ajgaonkar announced the decision to reopen Goa for tourism.

Ajgaonkar said, “Over 250 hotels will resume operations in Goa. These hotels were granted permission by the tourism department with the standard operating procedures put in place by the state government.”

The tourism minister also said, “We have decided to allow domestic travellers to enter Goa from July 2 provided they comply with certain norms. “

“For a tourist to enter Goa, he/she will have to carry a COVID-19 negative certificate within stipulated 48 hours window or get mandatorily tested in Goa,” he further added.

The decision to restart tourism activities was made in a state cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant.

The state, a large part of whose economy is driven by tourism, was closed for tourists since March 25 when the nation-wide lockdown was imposed.

However, the Goa tourism department has so far granted permission to 250 hotels, which can operate in keeping with the standard operating procedures (SOPs) put in place by the state government.

-RJV

Pak resorts to ceasefire violation along LoC in J&K’s Poonch

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Abid Bashir

Srinagar (NVI): Pakistan resorted to intense shelling of mortars and small arms in sectors of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, defence officials said today.

Defence officials said that Pakistan resorted to unprovoked firing in Shahpur and Kirni sectors of Poonch district by firing mortars and small arms.  “Our troops gave a befitting response,” he said.

Officials sources said that at around 9:30 am, Pakistani Army resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violation (CFV) along the LoC in Shahpur and Kirni sectors by firing mortars and other weapons,” they said, adding that a befitting response is being given to the Pakistani aggression.

There were no reports of any casualties so far. This year, a record number of 1,660 CFVs have taken place in J&K.

-CHK

Coronavirus cases near 10.7 million worldwide

New Delhi (NVI): The total number of coronavirus cases are nearing 10.7 million around the world, over 5.6 million people have recovered, and more than 5,15,000 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University tally.

United States coronavirus cases rose by nearly 50,000, marking the biggest one-day spike since the start of the pandemic. More than half of new cases each day come from US states of Arizona, California, Florida and Texas, home to 30 percent of the country’s population.

In Brazil, the total number of coronavirus infected cases has exceeded 1.4 million while the death toll surpassed 60,000 in the country.

Italy’s hard-hit northern region of Lombardy accounted for considerably more than half of the nation’s latest confirmed 187 coronavirus cases – raising the total to 240,760 nationwide. The Health Ministry also reported 21 new deaths, raising to 34,788 the total of known deaths.

Thailand has confirmed six new cases of Covid-19, all related to returnees who are staying in state quarantine. The country has recorded no local transmission of the virus for more than five weeks.

Tokyo confirmed more than 100 new coronavirus infection cases on Thursday, the Japanese capital’s highest daily tally in two months.

In Germany, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases increased by 503 to 195,228. The reported death toll rose by 9 to 8,994.

-CHK

Terrorists using mosques to target forces in Kashmir is ‘reprehensible’: Spl DG CRPF

July 18 Shopian encounter: Army completes summary of evidence
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Abid Bashir

Srinagar (NVI): Security forces doesn’t search or touch religious places while conducting anti-militancy operations and the use of mosques by terrorists to target the forces is highly reprehensible and shouldn’t be allowed by the mosque committees, Jammu and Kashmir’s Special Director General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Zulfikar Hassan today said

While attending a wreath laying ceremony of a CRPF man, who was killed yesterday, at Sopore shootout in which a civilian was also killed, the special DG CRPF said that the terrorists had taken position from inside the mosque and were waiting for the CRPF team to arrive.

The wreath laying was organized by the CRPF at RTC Humhama where police, CRPF and Army officials were present.

“I find the use of mosques by militants to target forces as highly reprehensible. We don’t enter or search religious places keeping in view their sanctity,” Hassan said. He said that mosque committees across Kashmir must ensure that mosques are hijacked by the terrorists.

He further added that, “The civilian got killed in the firing from the mosque. We are technically clear that the bullet was fired from the mosque that hit the civilian in his back. I have personally visited the spot, met people and checked the camera. It is beyond doubt that the civilian was killed by terrorist fire,” he said.

He said the boy accompanying his grandfather was extremely scared. “He was rescued by the CRPF man from the spot,” Hassan said.

The special DG CRPF said that use of mosques by terrorists seems to be a new dimension in Kashmir. “In the anti-militancy operations, security forces conduct searches in villages, forests, houses but never inside mosques. Security forces have great respect for the religious places. Even before the attack at Sopore, we have conducted searches in nearby areas but we didn’t search the mosque there,” the Special DG CRPF said.

He said it is the second attempt after Khrew, Pampore in Pulwama district, where two terrorists took refuge in a mosque.

He has urged the mosque heads and management bodies across Kashmir to ensure that terrorists aren’t allowed to enter mosques to hide and then target forces. “They have to play a role here and ensure that the religious places aren’t allowed to be used for terrorist activities,” DGP said.

-CHK

India’s COVID tally crosses 6 lakh; death toll 17,834

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New Delhi (NVI): The coronavirus cases in India saw a rise of 19,148 in the last 24 hours, taking the total number to 6,04,641, Union Health Ministry said.

The death toll due to the virus rose to 17,834, with 434 new fatalities being reported in the last 24 hours.

As many as 3,59,859 COVID-19 patients have been cured of the virus or discharged so far.

With this, the recovery rate from the coronavirus disease in India, the fourth worst-hit country in the world, has improved to 59.43 per cent.

In terms of total number of cases, Maharashtra continues to be the worst affected state with 1,80,298 coronavirus cases followed by Tamil Nadu with 94,049 and Delhi with 89,802 positive cases.

The other worst affected states are Gujarat (33,232) Uttar Pradesh (24,056), West Bengal (19,170) and Rajasthan (18,312).

In terms of deaths, Maharashtra tops the tally with 8,053 fatalities, ministry said.

The death toll in the national capital surged to 2,803 while another 59,992 patients have recovered so far, healthy ministry data shows.

Meanwhile, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said that 90,56,173 samples were tested for COVID-19 in the country till yesterday.

Apart from that, Union Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed the Covid-19 situation in the country yesterday with Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and senior officials of their ministries.

-RJV

J&K: 15 CRPF men, 5 cops among 198 new cases, tally at 7,695

Srinagar (NVI): Jammu and Kashmir today recorded 198 fresh positive cases for the deadly virus that include 15 CRPF personnel, three Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) jawans, and five policemen, taking the total number of positive cases in the UT to 7,695.

Officials said that among the new cases, 85 were tested positive at SKIMS, 15 at JVC Bemina, 80 at CD hospital and the rest at other hospitals. “New cases include 15 CRPF men, two BSF men, five policemen and three SSB men too,” they said.

Among 198 new cases, 179 belong to Kashmir division while 19 are from Jammu division, officials said, adding that the total number of positive cases in Kashmir has reached 6,065 including 3,690 recoveries and 92 deaths while the total number of positive cases in Jammu has reached 1,630 including 1,166 recoveries and 13 deaths.

The officials said that the total number of active cases in J&K is 2,734 including 2,283 from Kashmir and 451 from Jammu.

With 134 more recoveries, the tally of total recoveries in the UT has reached 4,856 which is 63.10 percent of the total cases.

Cases tested positive in J&K include 32 from Srinagar, 1 from Kulgam, 49 from Baramulla, 32 from Shopian, 8 from Anantnag, 16 from Kupwara, 6 from Budgam, 24 from Pulwama and 11 from Ganderbal in Kashmir while as 19 from Jammu include 11 from Jammu, one from Udhampur, 3 from Doda and two each from Samba and Rajouri.

As per the daily information bulletin, 2,85,126 persons in Jammu and Kashmir are under observation while 40,118 persons have been kept under home quarantine. Besides that, 2,734 persons are in hospital isolation while 35 persons are under hospital quarantine.

According to the bulletin, 1,95,659 persons have completed the surveillance period and 46,475 persons are under home surveillance.

So far, results of 3,71,486 samples are available out of which 3,63,791 stand negative while 7,695 have been tested positive. Among positive cases, 2,734 are active and 4,856 persons have recovered while 105 have died.

-ARK

MHA declares 9 individuals linked to Khalistani groups as designated terrorists

New Delhi (NVI): The Ministry of Home Affairs today declared nine individuals as designated terrorists under provisions of amended UAPA Act, for trying to revive militancy in Punjab.

The MHA, under the leadership of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, declared these persons as terrorists for their involvement in “various acts of terrorism from across the border and from foreign soil”.

“They have been relentless in their nefarious efforts of destabilizing the country, by trying to revive militancy in Punjab through their anti national activities and through their support to and involvement in the Khalistan Movement,” the ministry said in an official statement.

According to the ministry, out of nine individuals, four belong to Pakistan-based terrorist organisations. They include Wadhawa Singh Babbar, chief of Babbar Khalsa International (BKI); Lakhbir Singh, who heads International Sikh Youth Federation; Ranjeet Singh, chief of Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZB) and Paramjit Singh, who leads Khalistan Commando Force.

The five others are from Germany, USA, UK and Canada based terror organisations:

* Bhupinder Singh Bhinda: Germany based key member of terrorist organization, “Khalistan Zindabad Force”

* Gurmeet Singh Bagga: Germany based key member of terrorist organisation, “Khalistan ZindabadForce”

* Gurpatwant Singh Pannun: USA based key member of Unlawful Association, “Sikh for Justice”

* Hardeep Singh Nijjar: Canada based Chief of “Khalistan Tiger Force”

* Paramjit Singh: United Kingdom based Chief of terrorist organization,“BabbarKhalsa International”

In August 2019, the Central Government had amended the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 to include the provision of designating an individual as a terrorist. Prior to this amendment, only organizations could be designated as terrorist organizations.

-ARK

Lord Jagannath’s ‘Bahuda Yatra’ held successfully, Puri to remain shut tmrw

Subrat Kumar Sarangi

Bhubaneswar (NVI): The return journey of Lord Jagannath, also known as ‘Bahuda Yatra’ was organised without devotees in Odisha’s Puri today as the deities made their way back to the Jagannath temple after 9 days stay at Gundicha temple.

The holy trinity of Lord Jagannath, Devi Subhadra and Lord Balabhadra made their way back to the 12th-century old temple as servitors and police personnel pulled back the chariots, as per the centuries-old custom, this time without devotees though, due to the Covid pandemic.

For the first time, this Yatra also- just like Rath Yatra- happened without a congregation of devotees as the district administration had called for shutdown up to 2nd July, following Supreme Court guidelines on COVID-19.

The deities returned to the temple with their individual chariots — Nandighosha (Lord Jagannath), Taladhwaja (Lord Balabhadra), Darpadalana (Devi Subhadra) in a ceremonial procession ritual.

Only those police personnel and servitors, whose COVID-19 taste reports came negative, were allowed to perform the ceremonial rituals.

The Supreme Court, which earlier allowed Rath Yatra without congregation of devotees, had asked the Odisha government to engage only COVID-19 free persons in the nine-day Rath Yatra festival.

-RJV//ARK

PM Modi quits Weibo as India bans 59 Chinese apps

New Delhi (NVI): With India deciding to ban 59 Chinese mobile apps, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s account on the Twitter-like ‘Weibo’ app also went blank today, as his photos, posts and comments were found removed.

The Prime Minister had joined the social media app a few years ago. The microblogging website, like Twitter, follows a complex procedure to remove VIP accounts. There was a delay in granting access to remove the PM’s account as well, for reasons best known to Weibo.

The PM had 115 posts on the app before deletion and as the concerned officials delayed the process to grant permission to quit the platform, it was decided to manually delete all posts. However, after much effort, 113 posts were removed and two posts left were where the Prime Minister has photos with the Chinese President.

Since it is difficult to remove posts with the photo of their President (Xi-Jinping), that is why two posts still remained. Apart from that, all of the PM’s posts have been removed.

This comes two days after the Ministry of Information Technology in a statement said that a decision regarding the banning of 59 Chinese mobile apps has been taken while citing the “emergent nature of threats” from mobile applications. It said that the apps were banned based on the information that they were engaged in activities “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity, defence, security and public order” in India.

Union Minister of Communications, Electronics and Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad said Monday that the move was taken to ensure the country’s integrity and protect data and privacy of Indians.

“For safety, security, defence, sovereignty & integrity of India and to protect data & privacy of people of India the Government has banned 59 mobile apps. Jai Hind!” Prasad said in a tweet after his Ministry took the decision to ban several apps including TikTok, Shareit, WeChat, etc.

India and China are currently locked in a bitter standoff at multiple locations in Eastern Ladakh, especially after the June 15 violent clash between the Indian and Chinese troops in Galwan Valley in which 20 Indian soldiers lost their lives.

-ARK

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