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With 1,752 cases, India sees biggest single-day jump

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With 1,490 new cases, India's Covid-19 tally at 24,942

Of the 56 deaths reported since Friday evening, 18 were in Maharashtra, 15 in Gujarat, nine in Madhya Pradesh, three each in Delhi and West Bengal, two each in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh and one each in Punjab and Kerala.




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47 COVID-19 deaths, 1,975 cases in 24 hrs; toll 826

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India's COVID-19 cases surge to 28,380; toll at 886

During the daily media briefing, Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry, said that 16 districts in the country, which earlier had cases, have not reported any fresh cases for the last 28 days.






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Coronavirus in India LIVE: With 116 new cases, COVID-19 tally in Madhya Pra...

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Meghalaya reports new COVID-19 case

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Death toll now 44, TN sees 526 more +ve cases




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53 new COVID-19 cases, 1 death in Indore on Friday




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13 new COVID-19 cases reported in J-K




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Crime cases in Goa drop by 67 pc amid COVID-19 lockdown




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36 new COVID-19 cases reported in Karnataka, state tally 789




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Govt revises discharge policy: Severe Covid cases will have to test negative through RT-PCR




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16 new cases, 11 more containment zones in Gurugram




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Spike in Covid cases continues in Karnataka, tally 794




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Plea in Delhi HC seeks SIT, CBI probe into 'Bois Locker Room' case




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Suicide case: AAP legislator Jarwal, aide arrested




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Delhi govt allows 3 more private hospitals to admit COVID-19 cases




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Telangana reports one more death, 31 new cases




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Muzaffarpur enters Covid-19 map with 3 cases

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West Bengal reports 92 coronavirus cases today, tally reaches 1,548




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Covid-19: 4 cases in WB's 'green zone' North Dinajpur; 4 in Malda




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Tamil Nadu's coronavirus cases soar to 600




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COVID-19: 4 more deaths, 526 new cases in TN




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Tamil Nadu records 526 new Covid-19 cases, total infections at 6,535

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Delhi Police arrests AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal in a doctor's suicide case

AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal, who was booked by the Delhi Police on the charges of extortion and abetment to suicide after a doctor allegedly committed suicide




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15 fresh cases detected in Vijayawada

As many as 15 fresh positive COVID-19 cases were detected in the city which has turned into one of the hotspots. On Saturday, Krishna district reporte




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On dead, six new cases reported in Kurnool

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Officials in Nellore on alert as Koyambedu cases rise

The district has regular transactions with traders in Tamil Nadu




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Gujarat COVID-19 case tally jumps to 7,797 with 394 fresh cases

23 deaths pushes toll to 472; 2091 patients recover




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In 60 days, Maharashtra Covid-19 cases zoom from 2 to nearly 20K!




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Pune confirms 111 new COVID-19 cases, 9 deaths on Friday




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M'rashtra Covid-19 deaths cross 775, cases surpass 20K mark




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A dirty war’s casualties

Author: 
More attention needs to be paid to the Syrian Grand Mufti’s charges that the Middle East is being destabilised by Western forces I met the Grand Mufti of Syria, Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, in Damascus a few months after he had lost his son in a terror attack in 2012. Impeccably turned out with his turban and flowing robes, he looked understandably distraught. Those were the early days of the Syrian civil war and there was a struggle to interpret and analyse why violence was sneakily spreading in a secular country where President Bashar al-Assad was visibly popular. The Grand Mufti, who is considered one of the top three people in Syria, was uncertain why assassins targeted his 21-year-old son who was still studying in university, and was to get married the day he was killed. The answers came to him when he finally met his son’s killers. In one of his media interviews, he revealed how the two killers had no clue to either the identity of his son or motive. They were given the registration number of his car and a paltry amount of British pounds—350 each. His son’s life was worth only 700 pounds, the Mufti had said ruefully. After meeting his son’s killers, who were barely out of their teens, the Mufti pleaded with the authorities that they should be freed, but they had to face due process of law. Since then, the Mufti has seen his beloved country bloodied by a war heaped on its people by competing regional and global ambitions. He was recently in Delhi where he grandly announced that the five-year war, which has left more than 4,00,000 people dead and dislocated millions of others, was about to end. With relief and joy written on his face, the Grand Mufti described in detail how the secular Syrian Arab Army with the help of allies had defeated terrorists from over 40 countries. He blamed some of Syria’s neighbours and world powers for the endless war that the Middle East region had been subjected to. He claimed that these terrorists belonging to Daesh and other outfits like Nusra were recruited from different countries. There were many women, too, who were lured into this mythical Islamic State led by a Khalifa through Facebook or other social media platforms. The Mufti said that the fighters had abandoned the women from Chechnya, Tunisia, Jordan and some European countries after they began to lose their hold over towns in the last few months. He also hinted that some fighters had been mysteriously air-lifted by helicopters to safe places. Perhaps the Grand Mufti was lending credence to the allegations by Russian armed forces that before the fall of Dier-al-Zor, Syria’s seventh largest city, unmarked aircraft had pulled out hardcore Islamic State fighters to safer havens. The implications of the Mufti’s charge and that of the Russian armed forces are serious. There are obvious suggestions that the Islamic State was able to attain much success due to the support it received from covert operatives belonging to Western powers and their allies in the region. Another example of this relationship, as pointed out by the Russian Defence Ministry, is the circumstances in which a three-star General was killed while on military duty in Syria. The Russians claimed that the location and coordinates of the General were provided to terrorists working together with US troops. There have been no denials of these charges, but the bizarre manner in which the Arab Spring became a reason for regime changes in the Middle East by reviving old ethnic and sectarian fault lines has lessons for many societies, according to the Grand Mufti. He wanted India, a secular society that was under colonial rule like Syria, to remain vigilant about forces that wanted to disrupt settled societies. He gave the example of the Rohingya crisis that, in his reckoning, was getting inordinate publicity in the Western media. He believed the crisis was being used to destabilise not just Myanmar, but also China and India. Interestingly, the Mufti also visited Lucknow, which is a major centre of Islamic learning. Here he spoke about the need to rise above the sectarian divide between Shias and Sunnis, and look ahead and not backwards for inspiration. In these times, when sectarian issues are reordering the Islamic World, the Mufti’s message gains great importance. The big question is—will he be on the winning side?   
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Pakistan lifts lockdown even as Covid-19 cases surge - Times of India

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