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Sacrilege case: Punjab government forms SIT; to submit report within 2 days

Chandigarh, 19/12:Punjab has constituted a Special Investigation Team under DCP Law & Order to probe the ‘sacrilege incident’ at the Golden Temple in Amritsar after a man was beaten to death after he jumped the golden grills inside the sanctum sanctorum, picked a sword and reached near a Sikh priest who was reciting the holy…

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Section 144 imposed in Alappuzha district of Kerala after two political leaders killed

Kerala, 19/12:Kerala’s coastal Alappuzha district was rocked by back-to-back killings of two party leaders, the first belonging to the SDPI and the second to the BJP, leading to clamping of prohibitory order by police on Sunday.     Following the killing of an SDPI state secretary, a BJP leader was hacked to death subsequently in…

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CM Launches World Class Start-Up Hub ‘O-Hub’

Bhubaneswar, 18/12:Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik today inaugurated O-hub, a flagship initiative of Government of Odisha, to support Start-up formation and subsequent scale-up.    The state supported incubation hub is located in the Special Economic Zone, Patia Bhubaneswar & offers 1,50,000 square feet area with state-of-the art facility, plug-n-play infrastructure to support star-tup activities within…

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KL Rahul appointed Test vice-captain against SA in absence of Rohit Sharma

Mumbai, 18/12:In a major development, The All-India Senior selection committee on Saturday named KL Rahul as vice-captain for the upcoming 3-match Test series against South Africa. “KL Rahul replaces Rohit Sharma as vice-captain, who was ruled out of the Test series owing to a hamstring injury,” BCCI stated in an official release. Earlier, ANI had…

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OMICRON variant spreading faster than Delta:WHO

New Delhi, 18/12: Omicron coronavirus strain spreading significantly faster than Delta, says WHO.Omicron is spreading rapidly in countries with high levels of population immunity. The Omicron coronavirus variant has been reported in 89 countries and the number of cases is doubling in 1.5 to 3 days in areas with community transmission, the World Health Organization…

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