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Schools, coaching institutes in Rajasthan set to reopen Monday

Schools and coaching institutes in Rajasthan are set to reopen in the state on Monday after remaining closed for nearly 10 months with wearing of face masks, maintaining social distancing and thermal scanning made mandatory for the students.

 

These institutes were closed on March 21 last year.

 

The government has decided to restart schools from classes nine to 12 with each room having 50 per cent seating capacity and students attending classes with consent from their parents.

 

For students of coaching institutes coming from other states, they will have to get themselves tested for COVID-19, a day before joining classes. All coaching institutes will have to send details of their students to the nodal officer appointed by the district collector.

6:52 PM

Modi talks about 5G coming to India, while Kashmir is still living under 2G: Farooq Abdullah

6:48 PM

Shivsena has decided to contest the West Bengal Elections: Sanjay Raut

6:25 PM

Avian flu: 836 Maha birds found dead, samples sent for tests

Deaths of 836 different birds were reported on January 16 across Maharashtra and samples have been sent for bird flu tests in laboratories in Pune and Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal, officials said on Sunday.

 

As per an official statement, the deaths include that of 745 poultry birds, with Nagpur and Amravati districts from Vidarbha region reporting deaths of 290 and 75 poultry birds respectively.

5:31 PM

Indian classical musician Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan passes away

5:20 PM

EC team to visit Assam from Monday to review poll preparedness

Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora is scheduled to arrive in Assam on Monday on a three-day visit to take stock of preparations for assembly polls due in March-April, officials said.

 

The CEC will hold separate meetings with senior officials of the state government, including the chief secretary, home secretary, director general of police, chief electoral officer and police nodal officer.

5:16 PM

UK must not do trade deals with rights abusers: Dominic Raab

Britain should not engage in free trade with countries that abuse human rights, but proposals that the country's courts should decide whether genocide has been committed by trade partners is flawed, foreign minister Dominic Raab said.

 

Last week, Raab said Britain would introduce new rules for its companies to try to prevent goods linked to China's Xinjiang region entering their supply chains.

4:42 PM

Maharashtra's ruling parties Shiv Sena, Congress spar over renaming Aurangabad city

The Shiv Sena and the Congress, which are ruling allies in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, on Sunday sparred over renaming Aurangabad city, with the Uddhav Thackeray-led party saying it is not "secular" behaviour if one finds "cruel and religiously blind" Mughal emperor Aurangzeb "dear".

 

Hitting back, the Congress accused the Sena and the opposition BJP of playing politics over renaming and asked them why they did not they remember the issue while they were in power in Maharashtra for the past five years.

4:32 PM

India's demographic dividend needs to be fully leveraged; Venkaiah Naidu

India's biggest strength is its 'demographic dividend' and people need to fully leverage it to fast-track the country's progress in various sectors, Vice- President M Venkaiah Naidu said here on Sunday.

 

Naidu also called upon the youth of the country to be at the forefront in accelerating progress and scripting the country's growth story.

 

"One of our biggest strengths today is our demographic dividend.

4:29 PM

More than 3,600 birds rescued in 2020: Delhi Fire Service

Firefighters in the national capital rescued more than 3,600 birds between January-December last year, officials said on Sunday.

 

The maximum number of such cases were reported around Independence Day in August when people traditionally fly kites and the strings remain suspended on trees and poles creating a death trap for birds.

 

According to data shared by the Delhi Fire Service (DFS), the firefighters in the national capital responded to 25,416 distress calls last year, of which 3,691 were for rescue of birds and 2,902 for animals.