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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today transferred over Rs 17,000 crores to the bank accounts of over eight crore farmers as part of the PM-KISAN scheme.

The Defence Ministry will stop the import of 101 items "beyond given timeline" to boost indigenous production according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mission of Atma Nirbhar Bharat (Self-Reliant India), Union minister Rajnath Singh said today.

A BJP leader was shifted to a hospital after being fired upon by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir,police said on Sunday.

The defence ministry will stop the import of 101 items "beyond given timeline" to boost indigenous production according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mission of Atma Nirbhar Bharat (Self-Reliant India), Union minister Rajnath Singh said today.

75 years of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day: On August 9, 1945, the US dropped the second nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, three days after Hiroshima was destroyed by the first one - a uranium bomb- 'Little Boy'. Code-named the 'Fat Man', the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, killed over 80,000 people. This led to Japan's unconditional surrender in Second World War.

A record single-day jump of 64,399 new coronavirus patients has taken India's Covid tally past the 21 lakh-mark, the Union Health Ministry said this morning, adding that over 14.8 lakh patients have recovered so far. A total of 43,379 Covid-linked deaths have been logged so far; 861 deaths have been registered since yesterday. With the latest surge, the country's coronavirus count has reached 21,53,011 cases, which includes 6,28,747 active cases. India's recovery rate stood at 68.78 per cent this morning, as compared to yesterday's 68.32 per cent.

The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) gunned down Rakesh Pandey, an accused in the 2005 murder case of BJP leader Krishnanand Rai, in an encounter near Sarojini Nagar Police Station in Lucknow, said Inspector General of Police (STF) Amitabh Yash on Sunday.

A man was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Agra on Saturday after he was seen assaulting his son, tied upside down with a rope, in front of fellow villagers.

Nine coronavirus patients were killed in a huge fire that broke out at a hotel which was being used as a COVID-19 facility in Andhra Pradesh's Vijaywada early this morning. There were reportedly 30 Covid patients at hotel Swarna Palace at the time of the accident. The fire is suspected to have started on ground floor and spread to first and second floor, officials said. The Andhra Pradesh government has ordered an enquiry into the accident.

Air India Express employees in Delhi today paid tributes to co-pilot Akhilesh Kumar, who lost his life in the Kozhikode plane crash incident.

A record spike of 64,399 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours has taken India's Covid tally past 21 lakh-mark, the Union Health Ministry said this morning, adding that over 14.8 lakh people have recovered so far. Maharashtra has 1,47,355 active coronavirus cases, the highest in the country.

Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Saturday said he has tested positive for COVID-19 and has been admitted to AIIMS in Delhi.

The vital parameters of Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, under treatment for COVID-19 at Manipal Hospitals, are stable, sources in the facility said on Saturday.

The bodies of the pilot and co-pilot of the Air India Express (AIE) flight that crashed while attempting to land at the Karipur airport in Kerala's Kozhikode, were handed over to their families on Saturday.

West Bengal has decided to allow international charter flights carrying Indian nationals with COVID-negative certificates to land at the state airports in an attempt to ease restrictions amid the coronavirus pandemic, a senior official said on Saturday.