Two people were killed and four were hospitalised after gas leaked overnight at a pharmaceutical unit in Andhra Pradesh's Vishakhapatnam. Those who died were present at the leakage site, the police said, adding that the situation is "under control. The latest incident comes nearly two months after 11 people were killed and over 1,000 were left sick after gas leaked at a chemical plant in Visakhapatnam.

Two people were killed and four were hospitalised after gas leaked overnight at a pharmaceutical unit in Andhra Pradesh's Vishakhapatnam. Those who died were present at the leakage site, the police said, adding that the situation is "under control. The latest incident comes nearly two months after 11 people were killed and over 1,000 were left sick after gas leaked at a chemical plant in Visakhapatnam.

India on Tuesday raised with the US its decision to withdraw US visas from foreign students if their universities switch to online-only classes.&nbsp;The issue was raised by Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan&nbsp;Shringla&nbsp;during an online meeting with US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale.&nbsp;Sources told PTI that the US side took note of it and said they will keep the best interests of the Indian students in mind and would try and mitigate the impact of the&nbsp;decision.It&nbsp;also conveyed to India that detailed guidelines for implementation of the decision are yet to come out.&nbsp;

India and the US on Tuesday deliberated on a host of bilateral, regional and global issues during an online meeting between Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan&nbsp;Shringla&nbsp;and US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale.&nbsp;The Ministry of External Affairs said the two sides also reaffirmed their commitment to work towards ensuring a free, open, peaceful and prosperous Indo-Pacific.&nbsp;The talks were held under the India-US Foreign Office Consultations. It is not immediately known whether the border row between India and China figured in the talks.&nbsp;The&nbsp;MEA said in a statement&nbsp;that&nbsp;Shringla&nbsp;and Hale exchanged views on a number of regional and global issues of shared interest.&nbsp;India and the US have been expanding cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region where China has been trying to expand its military and economic clout.&nbsp;

Dissident Akali leaders on Tuesday elected Rajya Sabha MP Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa as the&nbsp;Shriomani&nbsp;Akali Dal President at a meeting in Ludhiana, &lsquo;removing' Sukhbir Singh Badal from the top post.&nbsp;Dhindsa and his son and former state finance minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa were expelled from the SAD in February this year for "anti-party" activities.&nbsp;The Dhindsas joined hands with the party's dissident groups, including the SAD Taksali.&nbsp;However, SAD spokesman and senior leader Daljit Singh Cheema described the move as "illegal and fraud" and accused the expelled leader of acting at the behest of the Congress.

Dharavi, known as Asia's largest slum, reported only one new coronavirus patient on Tuesday which took the case tally in the densely populated area in the heart of Mumbai to 2,335.&nbsp;The last time Dharavi had recorded a single new coronavirus case was on April 5, three months ago.&nbsp;The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation however, did not share any latest information about COVID-19 deaths in the area.&nbsp;The BMC official said that Dharavi has only 352 active COVID-19 cases as 1,735 patients have been discharged from hospitals upon recovery.&nbsp;The first coronavirus case was found in Dharavi on April 1, 20 days after the first case was found in Mumbai.&nbsp;Some 6.5 lakh people are estimated to live in Dharavi which is spread over 2.5 square kilometres.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The West Bengal government on Tuesday decided to expand the areas under lockdown and impose tougher restrictions from July 9 to stem the relentless spike in COVID-19 cases, a senior official said. The containment zones and buffer zones around them will be clubbed together and constitute a "broad-based" containment zone where total lockdown will be imposed from 5 pm on Thursday. An order issues by the Additional Chief Secretary, Home stated that the&nbsp;broader containment zones may be subjected to strict lockdown and all offices, government and private, all non-essential activities, congregations, transportations and all marketing, industrial and trading activities be closed.&nbsp;The current phase of lockdown, in force till July 31, was largely limited to containment zones alone.&nbsp;

The owner of an India-based ventilator firm has hit out at Rahul Gandhi days after the Congress leader accused the Centre of procuring &ldquo;substandard&rdquo; equipment from the company.&nbsp;In an interview to news agency ANI,&nbsp;AgVa&nbsp;owner Diwakar&nbsp;Vaish&nbsp;said Rahul should have done due diligence and consulted doctors before making the claim in a tweet.&nbsp;&nbsp;

In the wake of Covid-19 pandemic, the government is planning to come up with a Standard Operating Procedure for shooting films. Speaking at 'FICCI FRAMES 2020',&nbsp; Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar&nbsp;said that to accelerate&nbsp;the film industry that has come to a standstill due to&nbsp;pandemic, govt is also coming up with incentives of production in all sectors, including TV serials, film-making, co-production, animation, gaming that will help the&nbsp;soft power of India to get back on its feet.&nbsp;
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Face masks and hand&nbsp;sanitisers&nbsp;will no longer be&nbsp;categorised&nbsp;as essential commodities as per a new order passed by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.&nbsp; The decision was taken after feedback from all stakeholders and no complaints were received from states regarding the availability of masks or hand&nbsp;sanitisers.&nbsp;The relaxation will help in free pricing, storage and marketing of the two products, which have been in high demand since the novel coronavirus became a serious threat in the country. Both the items were listed as essential commodities as there was a sudden spike in demand for these items and many instances of overcharging were reported during the&nbsp;coranavirus&nbsp;induced lockdown.&nbsp;

A top White Official has said that the&nbsp;United States&nbsp;military will stand strong with India in connection with the border dispute between India and&nbsp;China.&nbsp;White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told Fox News that US&nbsp;was not going to stand by and let China or anyone else take the reins in terms of being the most powerful, dominant force, whether it&rsquo;s in that region or over in the country.&nbsp;Meadows made the remarks while responding to the border tensions between the two countries.&nbsp;Meadows&rsquo; statement comes three days after&nbsp;two US aircraft carriers were conducting exercises in the disputed South China Sea. China has also carried out military drills that have been criticised by the Pentagon and neighbouring states.&nbsp;

The Central Board of Secondary Education has reduced the syllabus for classes 9 to 12 for the academic year 2020-21 by up to 30 per cent to make up for academic loss caused due to Covid-19. Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal announced on Tuesday that suggestions from educationists across the country were sought to aid the decision on revising the syllabus. Schools across the country have been closed since March due to the pandemic.&nbsp;

MP Congress chief Kamal&nbsp;Nath&nbsp;sounded the poll bugle&nbsp;on Tuesday with a 'Loktantra&nbsp;bachao' rally, where hundreds of Congress workers showed up in violation&nbsp;of lockdown&nbsp;curbs.&nbsp;Congress workers raised slogans at the&nbsp;Badnawar&nbsp;event where hundreds of billboards greeted Kamal&nbsp;Nath.The ex-chief minister took a dig at the BJP&nbsp;saying that the public is intelligent and knows who is a tiger.&nbsp;
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Not everyone was sad or scared during the lockdown&nbsp;induced by a global pandemic. A&nbsp;pan-India online survey conducted by Centre for Marketing in Emerging Economies (CMEE) at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow&nbsp;showed many were glad as they could spend ample time with family, the fact that they did not have to brace traffic to commute to work daily.&nbsp;13% of respondents across various online platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn, said they were happy, while&nbsp;56% of these happy people tried out new dishes and 38% talked over phone with friends and relatives, things they were not able to do earlier. The survey covered participants in 104 cities across 23 states across metros, tier-1 and tier-2 cities.

The Rajya Sabha secretariat has drawn up a protocol taking into account the Covid-19 situation for its Standing Committee meetings. Attendees must maintain social distancing and the protocol mandates that a distance of six feet be maintained between two people. Only two officials from a ministry or department would be allowed in the meeting. In case more than two officers are available, they will have to wait outside the meeting venue and can come in only taking turns. No hard copies of documents, papers, reports, etc. would be allowed to be brought to the meeting. Hand sanitisers, disposable gloves, face covers/masks would be made available for all members, secretariat staff and officials at the meetings.

The West Bengal government is mulling a 14-day total lockdown in North 24 Parganas on account of rise in fresh Covid-19 cases. The plan for fresh lockdown comes in the wake of a proposal from the North 24 Parganas district administration for a fresh containment plan. Bidhannagar, Barasat, Basirhat, Barrackpore and Bongaon municipal areas likely to come under the lockdown in that district. Proposal suggests closing of markets and public transport in the district, only stand alone shops to remain open. Govt yet to decide on the date of imposition of the fresh lockdown. It may review situation after 10 days from the date of fresh lockdown imposition. The Bengal govt is also mulling similar fresh lockdown in adjacent Kolkata and Howrah where fresh cases are also rising steeply.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday questioned the government over the tension on the border between India and China, including the two separate statements issued by the Indian and Chinese foreign ministries over talks held between two seniors officials. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval had spoken with Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi over video call on Sunday before soldiers of the People&rsquo;s Liberation Army (PLA) moved back from the standoff points in the Galwan area. Rahul tweeted two photographs of the statements issued by India and China after Sunday&rsquo;s talk between Doval and Wang, asking national interest is paramount. GOI&rsquo;s duty is to protect it, then, why has Status Quo Ante not been insisted on? Why is China allowed to justify the murder of 20 unarmed jawans in our territory? Why is there no mention of the territorial sovereignty of Galwan valley?.

A passenger planning to travel on a Vistara flight will soon be able to book the adjacent seat as well at a discounted rate so as to keep it vacant. Vistara released a survey on Monday stating that 24% passengers were worried that fellow flyers would not adhere to coronavirus-related health protocols while flying. The airline has sent out a note to travel agents informing that currently, passengers can book the adjacent seat, in order to keep it vacant, at the same price, but they are looking to offer discounts as well. The occupancy rate in Vistara flights has been on an average between 50 to 60% since domestic flights resumed on May 25.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday told the Centre that they must make a "complete" compliance and not just "substantial" compliance with the court orders to give permanent commissions and command posts to eligible women officers in the army. Owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, the court gave the government one more month to implement its orders while taking on record a statement that the directives will be complied with in letter and spirit. A bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud took exception to the Centre's application which stated that efforts are being made for 'substantial' compliance with directions issued by the court in its February 17 verdict. The Ministry of Defence had asked for six extra months from the Supreme Court to grant permanent commission to eligible women officers in the army.

A dramatic video of a bridge in Gujarat's Junagadh being washed away by the heavy rains has gone viral. The nearly 30-year-old bridge in Bamnasa village over the Sabli river served as a lifeline for the locals who used it for their daily commute to and from their village. A request for its repair is pending for the last two years, reports said. The aerial footage of the area shows locals, absolutely cut off from the rest of the district, as their only link lay broken.

Coronavirus cases in India have crossed the 7 lakh-mark while the death toll is now over 20,000. The country reported over 22,000 new infections and 467 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the data from health ministry on Tuesday morning. India is now ranked third in the world after the United States and Brazil, two countries with the highest Covid count in the world. Coronavirus cases in India climbed from 6 lakh to 7 lakh in just 4 days. After Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, Delhi has become the third state to record over 1 lakh coronavirus cases. Maharashtra now has over 2 lakh Covid cases and Tamil Nadu has 1.11 lakh.

Six months after he was arrested while providing safe passage to Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, the NIA on Monday filed a charge-sheet against suspended DSP of J&amp;K police Davinder Singh, the Hindustan Times has reported.&nbsp;The agency has stated in the charge-sheet that not only had Davinder Singh provided safe passage twice to terrorists in his car; but had also been in touch with an assistant in the Pakistan high commission in Delhi, identified as Shafqat, for seeking information on sensitive military establishments in Kashmir.

Two people were killed and four were hospitalised after gas leaked overnight at a pharmaceutical unit in Andhra Pradesh's Vishakhapatnam

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