2 killed, 4 missing as heavy rains continue to batter Telangana

Two persons were killed and four were missing in separate incidents in Telangana as heavy rains continue to lash parts of Telangana. The Hyderabad Meteorological Centre has forecast heavy rains at few places in the state on Monday and Tuesday. Heavy to very heavy rain is very likely to occur at isolated places in Adilabad, Kumaram Bheem Asifabad, Mancherial, Nirmal, Nizamabad, Jagtiyal, Nalgonda, Suryapet, Janagaon, Ydadari Bhuvanagiri, Rangareddy, Hyderabad, Medchal, Malkajigiri, Vikarabad, Sangareddy, Mahabubnagar and Nagarkurnool district, it said.

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Nipah Virus: Kerala Health department to strengthen contact tracing, find source of infection

Stressing that the Health department's priority is to strengthen contact tracing and determine the source of infection, Kerala Health Minister Veena George on Monday said there are chances that the 12-year old boy who succumbed to Nipah may have come in contact with more number of people. George, who met the media here, said the samples of seven people among the 20 high-risk contacts of the child have been sent to the Pune NIV for testing. The child succumbed to Nipah virus early Sunday morning.

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Samajwadi Party MLA booked for remarks against PM Modi

Samajwadi Party MLA from Rae Bareli, Manoj Pandey, has been booked for making objectionable remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. An FIR against Pandey was lodged by former BJP district president Dileep Kumar on Sunday night after a video in which Pandey is heard addressing a gathering in Kaithal village of his constituency Unchahar, went viral on the social media.

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Former Uttar Pradesh Governor Aziz Qureshi booked for sedition in Rampur

Former Uttar Pradesh Governor Aziz Qureshi has been booked for sedition for his alleged derogatory remarks against Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The FIR was registered on the complaint of BJP leader Akash Saxena at Civil Lines police station in Rampur district on Sunday night.

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Mega vaccination drive in Lucknow today; 1 lakh inoculations on target

Lucknow will carry out a mega vaccination drive on Monday with the aim of vaccinating one lakh people. This will be the highest inoculations in a single day since the start of the mass immunisation campaign in January this year. The record so far is 93,436 vaccinations on August 27.According to District Magistrate Abhishek Prakash, the drive will be carried out at 160 vaccination centres.

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Coal scam case: Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee to appear before ED today

Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee will appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Delhi today in connection with the coal scam case. Abhishek, the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was summoned along with his wife Rujira for questioning in connection to a money laundering case linked to an alleged coal scam.

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India logs 38,948 fresh Covid-19 cases, 219 deaths in last 24 hours, active cases drop to 4,04,874

India recorded 38,948 new cases of the novel coronavirus, along with 219 deaths due to the infection in the past 24 hours. According to the data shared by the Union Health Ministry on Sunday, the country saw a total of 43,903 discharges in the last 24 hours, taking the total recovery rate at around 97.42 per cent and total recoveries to 3,21,81,995.

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