Jharkhand News Live Updates: Stone pelting between two groups in Jamshedpur; Section 144 imposed, mobile internet temporarily banned

Section 144 CrPc is enforced in Jamshedpur's Kadma police station area in view of the stone pelting that broke out between two groups in Jamshedpur on Sunday over the alleged desecration of a religious flag. Mobile internet is also temporarily banned. According to the officials, a company of Rapid Action Force (RAF) is also deployed in the area.

The number of active Covid-19 cases has increased to 1,900 on Sunday with another 369 people testing positive for the virus in the last 24 hours.Among them, five were passengers who returned from Singapore (3), UAE (1) and Thailand (1).Chennai (113) reported the maximum number of new infections followed by Chengalpattu (37), Thiruvallur (19) and Coimbatore (17).The Test Positivity Rate (TPR) of these districts is also much higher compared to the state’s average figure of 7. 5%. Tami Nadu screens around 4,500 samples per day.

Surge in temperature combined with other factors like intake of contaminated food, has led to an increase in cases of stomach and gastrointestinal ailments being reported in the state capital.Dehydration like symptoms are also being reported, mostly among those people, who spend day hours in scorching heat and lacking water intake, say city-based doctors. Students walking to and from educational institutions or coaching institutes are too falling to diarrhoea and food poisoning with high fever, mainly due to eating roadside foods, they say.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Sunday a 97-nation International Big Cats Alliance that will focus on the protection and conservation of seven big cat species in the wild, namely, the tiger, leopard, jaguar, lion, snow leopard, puma, and cheetah.

PM Narendra Modi on Sunday felicitated mahout couple Bomman and Bellie, who featured in Oscar-winning documentary short film ‘The Elephant Whisperers’, at Theppakadu elephant camp in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) in the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu.

Congress’s festering wound in Rajasthan flared up again Sunday when ex-deputy CM Sachin Pilot renewed his attack on CM Ashok Gehlot with months to go for polls, this time for allegedly going silent on the “corruptions and scandals” of the erstwhile Vasundhara-Raje led BJP government.