India

The capital city of Chennai accounted for 1,992 cases of the total infections reported on Sunday.

A total of 3,09,712 patients have been cured of COVID-19 so far with 13,832 patients having recovered in the last 24 hours.

The company said all rivers in and around Baghjan are rising rapidly, while the Dangori river is overflowing and has submerged the pumps installed for extinguishing the fire at the mouth of the well.

Reddy also announced the schedule for a series of agitational programmes to be held in the next one week on various issues.

Landslides blocked two major roads that connect state capital Gangtok and Mangan, the headquarters of North Sikkim district, at multiple places affecting traffic movement.

The migrating insects, which lay eggs in the desert and migrate in millions, were expected to fly over northwest and north India during the end of June.

Sheela Thomas, 41, has opened 2,200 files of distressed Indians hailing from states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, who have lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The incident took place on Friday afternoon, when Salim Khan (35) was heading towards Borivali from Thane city on his scooter with his wife and two children, an official said.

It took 110 days for coronavirus infection in the country to reach one lakh while just 39 days more to go past the five lakh-mark on June 27.

The Delhi health department order also said that all dedicated COVID-19 facilities shall permit one attendant of the patient in hospital premises who will remain in an area earmarked by the hospital.

The COVID-19 caseload zoomed to 5,08,953 with the addition of 18,552 cases in the last 24 hours, while 384 fatalities were also recorded during the same period, according to health ministry data.

This is the second statue being planned amid the pandemic -- three weeks ago the state housing minister had proposed a 120-feet tall Vivekananda statue as a tourist attraction in rural Bengaluru.

The 32-year-old woman posted a video on social media before hanging herself at her house in Shamshabad on the city outskirts late on Thursday night.

Last year, Belgium's then-prime minister, Charles Michel, apologised to the métis children who were kidnapped toward the end of the colonization period in the 1940s and 1950s.

Nazia Kouser was grazing cattle ahead of the border fencing along the LoC in the Challerri area of Shahpur sector when the Pakistan army violated ceasefire and fired at her around 6 pm.

The victim's family said he was depressed due to financial losses suffered during the lockdown.