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18 students of a school in Ghansoli, Navi Mumbai, have tested positive for COVID-19, informed NMMC Commissioner, Abhijit Bangar.
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BJP national president JP Nadda participated in a roadshow as part of the 'Vijay Sankalp Yatra' in a poll-bound Uttarakhand, on Saturday.
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A Hindu is someone who only follows the path of truth, said Rahul Gandhi in Amethi.
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18 students of a school in Ghansoli, Navi Mumbai, have tested positive for COVID-19. The school will be shut the next week.
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I came into politics in 2004. Amethi was the city where I contested my first election. People of Amethi have taught me a lot about politics. You have shown me the way to politics and I want to thank each and everyone from Amethi: Rahul Gandhi, Congress in Jagdishpur, Amethi
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The modern infrastructure coming up in UP today shows how resources are utilised. You have seen how public's money was used earlier. But today, UP's money is being used for UP's development. Earlier, big projects were started on paper so that they can fill their own coffers: PM
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets the crowd at the foundation stone laying ceremony of Ganga Expressway in Shahjahanpur.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets the crowd as he arrives on the stage in Shahjahanpur to lay foundation stone of Ganga Expressway.
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"We are launching the Sanyukt Sangharsh Party," he said while addressing the media here. The party will contest the Punjab assembly polls, which are due early next year, Chaduni said. "Our objective will be to purify politics and bring good people forward," said Chaduni who is also the president of the Haryana Bhartiya Kisan Union.
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"When Covid-19 community transmission increases and stringent public health measures become a necessity, schools must be the last places to close and the first to re-open. Another wave of widespread school closures would be disastrous for children... The evidence is clear: Prolonged, nationwide school closures; limited resources for students, teachers and parents; and lack of access to remote learning have wiped out decades of progress in education and rendered childhood unrecognizable," the Unicef head added.
Delhi on Saturday recorded a minimum temperature of six degrees Celsius, the lowest this season so far, according to the India Meteorological Department. The maximum temperature is likely to settle around 20 degrees Celsius and shallow fog has been predicted during the day, it said. The minimum temperature was two notches below the season's average, the IMD said.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Goa on December 19 to attend 60 years of Goa`s independence celebration, said Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant. "PM Modi has been invited to the program to celebrate 60 years of Goa`s independence. He will reach Azad Maidan at around 2 pm. This will be followed by the Prime Minister`s program at Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Stadium at 3 pm," said Sawant.
Cold winds from the country's northern parts swept Rajasthan as minimum temperatures in Fatehpur and Churu dropped below the freezing point, a meteorological department official said on Saturday. Temperatures on Friday night dropped by one degree Celsius across the state, the official said and added that the department has issued a cold wave warning for many parts of Rajasthan.
New Delhi: 18 students of a school in Ghansoli, Navi Mumbai, have tested positive for COVID-19, informed NMMC Commissioner, Abhijit Bangar.
Out of more than 950 students who have been tested. The school will be shut for the next week; the remaining students are to be tested at their residences on Saturday.
The source student's father had a travel history to Qatar but had tested negative upon RT-PCR. The student's sample has been sent for genome sequencing.
All close contacts of COVID positive students to be traced for testing: Navi Mumbai Municipal Corp Commissioner.
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