Congress' Telangana state unit president A. Revanth Reddy met the youth arrested and jailed at a prison here in connection with the recent violent incidents at Secunderabad railway station and reassured them.
The state capital region accounted for the most number of cases with Hyderabad district reporting 366 new infections, while its neighbouring Medchal-Malkajgiri and Ranga Reddy districts witnessed 34 and 40 cases, respectively.
Covid-19 cases in India are on the rise again with 51 districts, including 12 from Kerala, seven from Mizoram and five each from Maharashtra and Assam, reporting a weekly Covid positivity rate of over 10 per cent.
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In a review meeting of INSACOG held last week, states/UTs were asked to submit "larger number" of samples for whole genome sequencing from districts and areas which have seen a surge in COVID-19 cases over a period of seven days.
The Agnipath scheme, announced on June 14, provides for the recruitment of youths between the age bracket of 17.5 to 21 for four years with the provision to retain 25 per cent of them for 15 more years. Protests have erupted in several states against the scheme.
The Public Interest Litigation also sought directions to the Centre, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Bihar, Haryana and Rajasthan governments to submit a status report on the violent protests.
Last week, stormy protests had rocked several states, including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Telangana, while peaceful agitations were held in several places against the scheme
Agnipath is not just a great opportunity for the youth to serve the nation's defence forces but it will also make available a very disciplined and trained youth for the industry, including the Tata Group.
Anand Mahindra expressed dismay over the violence against the scheme while asserting that the farm equipment to aerospace conglomerate welcomes the opportunity to recruit trained, capable and young people under the programme
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Demanding suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma's arrest, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi suspects she would be projected as a prominent leader in days to come for her controversial remarks.
The ECoR partially cancelled at least 10 trains, including the Godavari Express from Hyderabad that will end its journey at Duvvada near Visakhapatnam. At least eight passing-through train will bypass Visakhapatnam and run via Simhachalam North and Duvvada, it added.
The village named Apshinge, located around 15 kms from Satara city, is also known as Apshinge Military for its contribution to the armed forces. For generations virtually every home in this village has someone serving in the army.
Agnipath protest: One person was killed in Telangana's Secunderabad amid ongoing protests against the Centre's Agnipath scheme while one-armed forces aspirant died by suicide in Odisha fearing cancellation of the CEE examination.
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With many states in the grip of violence, partisan political voices emerged against the new 'Agnipath' recruitment scheme for the defence forces that has set off a firestorm.
