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India reports 16,764 new Covid cases, Omicron tally reaches 1,270

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 India registered 16,764 new Covid-19 cases and 220 deaths in the past 24 hours, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Friday.

With the addition of the new fatalities, the nationwide death toll has spiked to 4,81,080.

Meanwhile, the Omicron infection tally has climbed at 1,270 across the nation and of the total patients, 374 have been discharged from hospitals.

So far, a total 23 states have reported the new variant, the Ministry said.

Also in the last 24 hours, 7,585 patients recovered which increased the cumulative tally to 3,42,66,363.

Consequently, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.36 per cent.

The nation’s active caseload is presently at 91,361 which constitute 0.26 per cent of the total Positive Cases.

Meanwhile, a total of 12,50,837 tests were conducted across the country, raising the overall figure to 67.78 crore .

The weekly positivity rate at 0.89 per cent has remained less than 1 per cent for the last 47 days now.

The daily positivity rate stands at 1.34 per cent, which has also remained below 2 per cent for last 88 days and less than 3 per cent for 123 consecutive days now.

With the administration of 66,65,290 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, India’s Covid inoculation coverage reached 144.54 crore as of Friday morning.

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Mumbai: Not only Muslims but also Hindus are worried about SIR, SP national president Akhilesh Yadav criticizes UP government and Election Commission

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Mumbai: Samajwadi Party National President MP Akhilesh Yadav has made it clear that not only Muslims have faced problems due to ISR, but Hindus in Uttar Pradesh have also been forced to stand in queues. Hindus are also facing problems due to SIR. The Chief Minister was also alarmed by this and said that 4 crore votes were cut from us. Those who were looking for papers of Muslims, now they have put all Hindu brothers in the queue. Hindu brothers are looking for papers. It is not the opposition that is worried about SIR in UP, but the ruling parties are worried. Fake votes were cast. The Election Commission was silent in the by-elections, and its impartiality and honesty were also questioned. Akhilesh Yadav said that the opposition has no problems due to SIR. He was addressing a summit here in Mumbai. He also predicted and claimed that Mamata Banerjee will return to West Bengal once again. Maharashtra Samajwadi Party State President Abu Asim Azmi was also present in this press conference. Akhilesh Yadav has also strongly criticized the Election Commission and the UP government and has also raised questions about the government’s methods and communalism.

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BMC claims to have removed lights from cars after Mayor Ritu Tavre and VIP’s car had lights on, administration clarifies

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Mumbai: After the video of flashing lights on the car of Mumbai Mayor Ritu Tawde and VIP cultural of BMC officials went viral, the BMC has claimed to remove flashing lights and flashing lights from the cars of all government officials. According to the BMC, there were reports in the media about flashing lights being installed on the vehicles of municipal corporation officials. In this regard, the administration has clarified that the vehicles are provided to the officials after assuming office. As soon as the issue of flashing lights on these vehicles came to light, the flashing lights (flasher lights) installed on the vehicles of the officials were removed. It should be noted that the BMC took action when a debate broke out on social media regarding the VVIP cultural installed on Mayor Ritu Tawade’s car and now the BMC administration has clarified the issue and removed the lights from the cars. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had ordered the removal of red lights from the cars of ministers and others against the VVIP cultural. After that, criticism started over the installation of the light on the BMC Mayor’s car. Now the BMC has claimed to have removed the lights from all the cars.

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Minorities ignored in Maharashtra budget: Manoj Jamsutkar

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Mumbai: Shiv Sena leader and MLA Manoj Jamsutkar, while commenting on the budget in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, termed it a contractors’ budget and said that the way major projects have been included in the budget raises doubts that this is a budget for contractors instead of the general public. Doubts also persist over the loan waiver for farmers. Although a loan waiver of Rs 2 lakh has been announced, its implementation is still in doubt. Will the schemes implemented by the state government for farmers benefit them or not? He said that minorities have been completely ignored in the budget. No new schemes have been introduced for them. There is no mention of the problems of farmers in Nandurbar in the budget. He said that a major budget has been approved in rapidly developing Maharashtra. No special attention has been paid to other public issues including health, therefore, special attention needs to be paid to it and Jamsutkar has also demanded that minorities be given a share in the budget.

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