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Top news headlines of the day:
> First case of Covid-19 found in Tokyo Olympic Village, organisers confirm
> India reports 38,079 new Covid-19 cases, 560 new fatalities
> 11 bodies recovered from Madhya Pradesh well, PM Modi offers condolences
> Sabarimala temple opens; RT-PCR report or vaccine certificate must
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JUL 17, 2021 09:39 AM IST
11 bodies recovered from Madhya Pradesh well, PM Modi offers condolences
Eleven bodies have been recovered and 19 people rescued from a well, which collapsed on Thursday during a rescue operation to pull out a boy, in the Ganjbasoda area of Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha district, according to a report.
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JUL 17, 2021 09:17 AM IST
India reports 38,079 new Covid-19 cases, 560 new fatalities
India on Saturday recorded 38,079 new Covid-19 cases. The death toll has also gone up to 413,091 with 560 new fatalities in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed.
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JUL 17, 2021 09:06 AM IST
Organisers say first case of Covid-19 found in Tokyo Olympic Village, reports AFP
The Tokyo Olympics has registered its first Covid-19 case in the Olympic Village six days before the Games open, organisers said on Saturday.
“There was one person in the Village. That was the very first case in the Village that was reported during the screening test,” Masa Takaya, spokesman for the Tokyo organising committee, told a press conference.
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JUL 17, 2021 09:04 AM IST
Rajasthan govt bans religious gatherings
All religious programmes and congregations, including those of the upcoming Kanwar Yatra and Eid-ul-Zuha, have been banned in Rajasthan as part of the state government’s efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19.
As per the notification, even the annual Mudiya Poono Mela, which is organized every year in Mathura’s Govardhan area, will not be held this year. Devotees will not be allowed to gather for the Chaturmas festival as well.
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JUL 17, 2021 08:05 AM IST
US Navy hands over MH-60R helicopters to India
In yet another sign of strengthening India-US defense relationship, the US Navy has handed over the first two MH-60R Multi Role Helicopters (MRH) to the Indian Navy.
The Indian Navy is procuring 24 of these helicopters manufactured by Lockheed Martin under foreign military sales from the US government at an estimated cost of USD2.4 billion.
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JUL 17, 2021 07:31 AM IST
Kabul, Taliban negotiators to meet in Qatar as Afghan fighting rages
Representatives of the Afghan government and the Taliban were due to meet in Doha for talks on Saturday as violence rages in the country while foreign forces finalise their withdrawal.
The two sides have been meeting on and off for months in the Qatari capital but the talks have lost momentum as the insurgents have made battlefield gains.
Several high-ranking officials including former president Hamid Karzai and former chief executive Abdullah Abdullah were heading to Doha on Friday afternoon.
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JUL 17, 2021 07:19 AM IST
Biden administration mourns Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui’s death
The Biden administration and US lawmakers have mourned the death of Indian journalist Danish Siddiqui, who was killed in Afghanistan while covering the fighting between Afghan troops and Taliban militants.
Siddiqui, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018, worked for Reuters news agency and was killed on Friday in the town of Spin Boldak, near the border with Pakistan. He was embedded with Afghan special forces at the time of his death.
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