Turkey reported 50 new COVID-19 deaths and 1,546 fresh cases on Saturday as it prepared steps to return to normal life. Total fatalities stand at 3,739, while infections number 137,115. According to figures posted on Twitter by Health Minister Fahrettin Koca, 89,480 patients have recovered. Shopping malls, barber shops, hairdressers and beauty salons will open for business on Monday as Turkey starts easing restrictions. Meanwhile, one of Turkey's biggest soccer clubs, Besiktas, announced a player and a club employee had tested positive for the new coronavirus. Earlier this week, the Turkish Football Federation said matches behind closed doors would resume next month, prompting the resumption of limited training sessions.

Mary Pratt, believed to be one of the last surviving members of the women's baseball league which was celebrated in the Hollywood film "A League of Their Own," has died. She was 101. The baseball icon Pratt pitched in the 1940s for the Rockford Peaches, one of the original teams in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She was the last surviving member of the Peaches. She died peacefully in her sleep at the John Scott Nursing home in Quincy, Massachusetts. "We are terribly sad to report that former Rockford Peaches and Kenosha Comets pitcher, Mary Pratt passed away on May 6th. She was 101 years old," the AAGPBL wrote on its Twitter account. "Mary was the last known original Peaches player that played on the 1943 team. Her stories, her energy will be missed for a long time." The league was immortalized in the 1992 film which was directed by Penny Marshall and starred Tom Hanks and Geena Davis. Born in 1918 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Pratt joined the inaugural season of

Pakistan reported a record number of 1,991 coronavirus cases in a single day, taking the total number of infections to over 29,000, the health ministry said on Sunday as the country began easing the month-long lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the deadly disease. Despite a surge in the number of COVID-19 infections, the first phase of the easing of the lockdown began on Saturday. The government announced removing restrictions by allowing more businesses to open and operate from dawn to 5pm. However, doctors have warned against easing the restrictions. The Representative of the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) have demanded that the government observe the World Health Organization protocols and implement a strict lockdown. The Ministry of National Health Services said that 21 new deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of fatalities to 639. A total of 8,023 people have recovered so far. Punjab registered 11,093 cases, Sindh 10,771, ...

The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 2,109 and the number of cases climbed to 62,939 in the country on Sunday, registering an increase of 128 deaths and 3,277 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 41,472, while 19,357 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, the ministry said. The total number of cases also include 111 foreign nationals. Of the 2,109 fatalities, Maharashtra tops the tally with 779 deaths. Gujarat comes second with 472 deaths, followed by Madhya Pradesh at 215, West Bengal at 171, Rajasthan at 106, Uttar Pradesh at 74, Delhi at 73, and Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu at 44. The death toll is 31 in Punjab, 30 each in Karnataka and Telangana. Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana each have registered nine COVID-19 deaths, Bihar five and Kerala four. Jharkhand has recorded three COVID-19 fatalities. Odisha, Chandigarh, Assam and Himachal Pradesh have reported two deaths each. Meghalaya and ...

Mizoram has registered a 10 per cent drop in Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) in 2019-20 fiscal, making it to the second spot in the country after Nagaland. State health minister R Lalthangliana said the IMR has dropped from 15 per cent to 5 per cent (per 1000 live births), citing the latest Sample Registration System (SRS) bulletin. With 10-point drop in IMR in 2019-20, Mizoram is the best-performing state in the country, he said. Over the past three years, the state has achieved 27- point drop in IMR. The minister attributed the achievement to efforts of healthcare workers and support of people. Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had on Saturday congratulated Mizoram and Lalthangliana on the achievement. The state had recorded 21 per cent IMR in 2016-2017, with 405 infants dying before attaining the age of one. During 2017-18, it fell to 20 per cent, and the following year to 15 per cent. According to Sample Registration System (SRS) bulletin released recently, Nagaland tops ..

A special train carrying 1,140 migrant workers stranded here in the lockdown has left Mangaluru railway station for Jharkhand. Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel and Vedavyas Kamath, MLA, were present at the railway station on Saturday night when the train left. Kamath said the workers who had registered on the state governments Seva Sindhu portal were brought to the railway station in Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation buses. A health check-up was carried out before they boarded the train. The district administration also provided food packets and water to the migrants at the station. Three more trains will leave from Mangaluru for Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Jharkhand soon, he said. Meanwhile, in a statement, Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Sindhu P Rupesh said train services are being arranged for migrant workers who have registered their names on the Seva Sindhu portal. The workers will be informed when trains are arranged to their destinations and they .

In a major administrative reshuffle amid the lockdown, the Madhya Pradesh government has transferred 50 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, including some additional chief secretaries, principal secretaries and a former chief secretary. This is the first major bureaucratic rejig by the BJP-led state government since Shivraj Singh Chouhan became chief minister in March this year. As per the order issued on Saturday night, former chief secretary Gopal Reddy has been posted as chairman of the revenue board at Gwalior, I C P Keshari as vice chairman of the Narmada Valley Development Authority, Vinod Kumar as additional chief secretary (ACS) of the general administration department and J N Kansotia as ACS of the animal husbandry department, official sources said. Besides, Anupam Rajan is posted as principal secretary of the public relations and higher education departments. The government has removed P Narhari as commissioner of the public relations department and ...

Only 200 of the 403 MLAs will be able to sit inside the Uttar Pradesh Assembly if social distancing norms are implemented in the House as there are not enough seats, Speaker Hriday Narayan Dixit said. However, Dixit is "optimistic" and feels that by the time the next sitting of the Legislative Assembly is convened the situation will improve. "At present, the House is not in session. The Monsoon Session of the UP Legislative Assembly should be held some time in August and I am optimistic that by then the situation would have changed," the speaker told PTI in an interview. When asked to elaborate, Dixit said, "If we adhere to social distancing and leave one seat vacant, we will not have enough seats. There are 403 MLAs. Already there are not enough seats for everyone." "There is a shortage of 10-12 seats. The work goes on as (generally) 10-12 (members) are absent. In these circumstances, if one seat is left vacant then not more than 200 MLAs will be able to sit," he said. On being asked

Left without jobs and desperate to return home amid the lockdown, 10 migrant labourers have set off on foot from Pune in Maharashtra for their native place hundreds of kilometres away in Uttar Pradesh. The Pune administration has asked the officials concerned to make necessary arrangements for such migrants at hotels and halls available on highways in the district and set up camps for them, in the wake of the death of 16 migrant labourers after being run over by a goods train in Aurangabad. The 10 migrant workers, all natives of Allahabad district in Uttar Pradesh, started walking to their homes from Pune on Saturday evening after losing their jobs and finding to difficult to sustain their livelihood here. "We all were working as construction labourers in Pune. Now we don't have food to survive. Therefore, we have started for our native place in Uttar Pradesh," one of the labourers from the group said. Pune District Collector Naval Kishore Ram has ordered tehsildars and ..

: The Chennai Koyambedu connection had a clear reflection on the number of fresh coronavirus cases in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday as the border districts of Chittoor and SPS Nellore reported 16 and five in the last 24 hours as the states overall tally shot up by 50 to 1,980. The official bulletin showed one fresh Covid-19 death in Kurnool district and put the overall count at 45, as the one fatality reported in Vizianagaram on Saturday was not added to the table. Over 160 people with contacts to people who returned from the Koyambedu wholesale market in Chennai were traced in Chittoor district and tests so far revealed 27 COVID-19 positive cases in the last two days, official sources here said. With the fresh additions, the number of active cases in Chittoor rose to 38. SPS Nellores tally also crossed the century mark to 101 but the number of active cases here was 36. Nellore too had the Koyambedu connection and officials were busy tracing the contacts of the Chennai ...

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ಶನಿವಾರದ ದಿನ ವಾಯುಪುತ್ರ, ಕಪಿವೀರನೆಂದು ಕರೆಯಲ್ಪಡುವ ಹನುಮಂತ ಕೇಸರಿಯ ದಿನ. ವಾನರ ಅಂಜನಾದೇವಿಯ ಮಗ ಮತ್ತು ರಾಮನ ಪರಮಭಕ್ತ. ಶಕ್ತಿಯ ದೇವತೆ ಎಂದು ಹನುಮಂತನನ್ನು ಪೂಜಿಸಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ವಾನದ ತನ್ನ ಸ್ವಾಮಿಯಾದ ರಾಮನಿಗೆ ಸಹಾಯ ಮಾಡಲು ಮುಂದಾಗುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಮಹಾ ಸಮುದ್ರವನ್ನು ಹಾರಿ ಸೀತೆಯು ಲಂಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ವಿಷಯವನ್ನು ರಾಮನಿಗೆ ತಿಳಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಮುಂದೆ ರಾವಣನ ಜೊತೆ ಯುದ್ಧ ಮಾಡಿ, ಸೀತೆಯನ್ನು

ಭಾನುವಾರ ಎಂದರೆ ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಆನಂದದಿಂದ ಇರಲು ಇಷ್ಟ ಪಡುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಒತ್ತಡಗಳನ್ನು ಬದಿಗಿಟ್ಟು ದಿನವಿಡೀ ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿಗೆ ಒಳಗಾಗಲು ಬಯಸುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಇನ್ನೂ ಕೆಲವರು ಶಾಪಿಂಗ್ ಮಾಡುವುದು ಅಥವಾ ಪ್ರೇಕ್ಷಣೀಯ ಸ್ಥಳಗಳಿಗೆ ಭೇಟಿ ನೀಡುವುದರ ಮೂಲಕ ಖುಷಿಪಡುತ್ತಾರೆ.ಒಟ್ಟಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕಾರ್ಯದ ಉದ್ದೇಶವು ಖುಷಿಯಾಗಿ ಇರಬೇಕೆನ್ನುವುದೇ ಆಗಿರುತ್ತದೆ. ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿಗೆ ಮೀಸಲಾದ ಈ ಭಾನುವಾರ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಭವಿಷ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಯಾವೆಲ್ಲಾ ಬದಲಾವಣೆಯನ್ನುಂಟುಮಾಡುತ್ತದೆ? ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿಯ

ಜೀವನ ಎನ್ನುವುದು ಒಂದು ರಸ್ತೆ ಇದ್ದಂತೆ. ನಿರಾಸೆ ಎನ್ನುವುದು ರಸ್ತೆಯ ಉಬ್ಬು ತಗ್ಗುಗಳು. ನಾವು ಸಾಗುವ ದಾರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಉಬ್ಬು ತಗ್ಗುಗಳು ಬಂತೆಂದು ಮಾನಸಿಕವಾಗಿ ಕಿರಿಕಿರಿಗೆ ಒಳಗಾಗಿ ನಮ್ಮ ಸಂಚಾರವನ್ನು ನಿಲ್ಲಿಸಬಾರದು. ಎಂತಹದ್ದೇ ಉಬ್ಬು ತಗ್ಗುಗಳು ಎದುರಾದರೂ ನಿಧಾನವಾಗಿ ಅಥವಾ ಕಾಳಜಿಯಿಂದ ಅದನ್ನು ದಾಟಿ ಮುಂದೆ ಸಾಗಬೇಕು. ಆಗ ನಮ್ಮ ಸಂಚಾರ ಸುಗಮವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ನಮ್ಮ ಜೀವನದ್ದಲ್ಲೂ ಹಾಗೆಯೇ. ಯಾವುದಾದರೂ

ಮಂಗಳವಾರದ ದಿನ ಅಂದರೆ ನವಗ್ರಹಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಒಬ್ಬರಾದ ಮಂಗಳನ ದಿನ. ಈತನನ್ನೇ ಕುಜ ಎಂದು ಕರೆಯಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಅಂಗಾರಕನೆಂದು ಈತನನ್ನೇ ಕರೆಯಲಾಗುವುದು.ಪುರಾಣಗಳ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಕುಜ ಎಂದರೆ ವಿಪತ್ತುಗಳನ್ನು ಉಂಟು ಮಾಡುವನು. ಪುರಾಣಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಶೇಷವಾದ ಧಾರ್ಮಿಕವಾದ ಪ್ರಾಮುಖ್ಯತೆಯಿದೆ. ಮಂಗಳವಾರ ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಕಾಳಿ, ಗಣಪತಿ,ಆದಿಶಕ್ತಿಯನ್ಶು ಆರಾಧನೆಯನ್ನು ಮಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ.ಮಂಗಳವಾರದ ದಿನವು ದೈವವನ್ನು ಆರಾಧಿಸುತ್ತಾ ಬೋಲ್ಡ್ ಸ್ಕೈ ನಿಮಗಾಗಿ ನೀಡಿರುವ ದಿನದ ಭವಿಷ್ಯವನ್ನು ತಿಳಿಯೋಣ. {image-dh-kannada-april28-1588046902.jpg

ನಮ್ಮ ನಿತ್ಯದ ಬದುಕಿಗೆ ಒಂದು ನೀತಿ ನಿಯಮ ಎನ್ನುವುದು ಇರಬೇಕು. ನಾವು ವಾಸಿಸುವ ಮನೆಯ ಉದ್ದಳತೆ ಚಿಕ್ಕದಾಗಿದ್ದರೂ ಮನಸ್ಸು ವಿಶಾಲವಾಗಿರಬೇಕು. ನಮ್ಮ ಸುತ್ತಲಿರುವ ಜನರೊಂದಿಗೆ ಬೆರೆಯಬೇಕು, ಹಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಡತನ ಇದ್ದರೂ ನಮ್ಮ ಮನಸ್ಸು ಶ್ರೀಮಂತಿಕೆಯಿಂದ ಕೂಡಿರಬೇಕು. ನಮ್ಮವರು-ತನ್ನವರು ಎನ್ನುವ ಪ್ರೀತಿ ವಿಶ್ವಾಸದಿಂದ ಕೂಡಿರಬೇಕು. ಆಗಲೇ ಆ ಭಗವಂತ ನಮಗೆ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದನ್ನು ಕರುಣಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಸಂವತ್ಸರ: ಶ್ರೀ ಶಾರ್ವರಿ

ಗುರುವಾರದ ದಿನ ಶಿರ್ಡಿ ಸಾಯಿ ಬಾಬಾ ತಮ್ಮ ಭಕ್ತರಿಂದ ಅವರವರ ವೈಯಕ್ತಿಕ ಒಲವುಗಳು ಹಾಗು ನಂಬಿಕೆಗಳ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಒಬ್ಬ ಸಂತ,ಫಕೀರ, ಅವತಾರ ಅಥವಾ ಸದ್ಗುರು ಎಂದು ಪರಿಗಣಿಸಲಾಗಿದ್ದ ಮತ್ತು ಪರಿಗಣಿಸಲಾಗುವ ಒಬ್ಬ ಮಹಾನ್ ಆಧ್ಯಾತ್ಮಿಕ ಗುರುಗಳಾಗಿದ್ದರು. ಅವರು ತಮ್ಮ ಮುಸ್ಲಿಮ್ ಮತ್ತು ಹಿಂದೂ ಭಕ್ತರಿಂದ ಗೌರವಿಸಲ್ಪಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು. ಸಾಯಿ ಬಾಬಾ ಅನುಯಾಯಿಗಳು ಹಾಗು ಭಕ್ತರು ಬಾಬಾರ ಹಲವು ಪವಾಡಗಳನ್ನು

ಬದುಕು ಎನ್ನುವುದು ಒಂದು ನದಿ ಇದ್ದ ಹಾಗೆ. ಕೊನೆ ಇಲ್ಲದ ಪಯಣ. ಈ ಪಯಣದ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಏನೆಲ್ಲಾ ಸಿಗುತ್ತದೆಯೋ ಅದೆಲ್ಲವನ್ನೂ ಜೊತೆಯಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಕರೆದೊಯ್ಯುತ್ತದೆ. ಹಾಗಂತ ಯಾವುದೂ ಕೊನೆಯವರೆಗೆ ಉಳಿಯುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ನಿಜ, ಜೀವನದ ಪಯಣದುದ್ದಕ್ಕೂ ಸಿಕಿ ಕಹಿ ಘಟನೆಗಳು ಹಾಗೂ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಗಳು ಸಿಗುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಅವು ಯಾವುದೂ ಶಾಶ್ವತವಾಗಿ ನಮ್ಮೊಂದಿಗೆ ಉಳಿಯುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ನಮ್ಮೊಂದಿಗೆ ಬಂದ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಗಳು ಹಾಗೂ ಅನುಭವಿಸಿದ ಸನ್ನಿವೇಶಗಳ

ಶನಿವಾರದ ದಿನ ವಾಯುಪುತ್ರ, ಕಪಿವೀರನೆಂದು ಕರೆಯಲ್ಪಡುವ ಹನುಮಂತ ಕೇಸರಿಯ ದಿನ. ವಾನರ ಅಂಜನಾದೇವಿಯ ಮಗ ಮತ್ತು ರಾಮನ ಪರಮಭಕ್ತ. ಶಕ್ತಿಯ ದೇವತೆ ಎಂದು ಹನುಮಂತನನ್ನು ಪೂಜಿಸಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ವಾನದ ತನ್ನ ಸ್ವಾಮಿಯಾದ ರಾಮನಿಗೆ ಸಹಾಯ ಮಾಡಲು ಮುಂದಾಗುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಮಹಾ ಸಮುದ್ರವನ್ನು ಹಾರಿ ಸೀತೆಯು ಲಂಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ವಿಷಯವನ್ನು ರಾಮನಿಗೆ ತಿಳಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಮುಂದೆ ರಾವಣನ ಜೊತೆ ಯುದ್ಧ ಮಾಡಿ, ಸೀತೆಯನ್ನು ಲಂಕೆಯಿಂದ

ಭಾನುವಾರ ಎಂದರೆ ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಆನಂದದಿಂದ ಇರಲು ಇಷ್ಟ ಪಡುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಒತ್ತಡಗಳನ್ನು ಬದಿಗಿಟ್ಟು ದಿನವಿಡೀ ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿಗೆ ಒಳಗಾಗಲು ಬಯಸುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಇನ್ನೂ ಕೆಲವರು ಶಾಪಿಂಗ್ ಮಾಡುವುದು ಅಥವಾ ಪ್ರೇಕ್ಷಣೀಯ ಸ್ಥಳಗಳಿಗೆ ಭೇಟಿ ನೀಡುವುದರ ಮೂಲಕ ಖುಷಿಪಡುತ್ತಾರೆ.ಒಟ್ಟಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕಾರ್ಯದ ಉದ್ದೇಶವು ಖುಷಿಯಾಗಿ ಇರಬೇಕೆನ್ನುವುದೇ ಆಗಿರುತ್ತದೆ. ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿಗೆ ಮೀಸಲಾದ ಈ ಭಾನುವಾರ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಭವಿಷ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಯಾವೆಲ್ಲಾ ಬದಲಾವಣೆಯನ್ನುಂಟುಮಾಡುತ್ತದೆ? ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿಯ