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India recorded 38,628 new coronavirus cases and 617 new deaths on Saturday, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Saturday.

IndiGo announced that it will offer unlimited free travel for one year to javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra after he won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.

You have made the country proud, and I know all IndiGo employees would be truly honoured to welcome you onboard one of our flights.” “With all humility we would like to offer you free flights on IndiGo for a year.

Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Virendra Kumar on Saturday launched an online portal and a mobile application to make skill development schemes accessible to the target groups of Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes and sanitation workers.

The ‘Pradhan Mantri Dakshta Aur Kushalta Sampann Hitgrahi Yojana’ is being implemented by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment from the year 2020-21.

Total income during April-June 2021-22 was up at Rs 965.67 crore from Rs 950.70 crore in the year-ago period, DCB Bank said in a regulatory filing.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said history has been scripted with javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra winning the gold medal at the Olympics and stressed that what he has achieved today will be remembered forever.

China’s Wuhan city, where the coronavirus first emerged in 2019 and which is currently experiencing a resurgence of infections, has tested 11.23 of its over 12 million people, local authorities said on Saturday.

“As per our policy, the Haryana government will give Rs 2.5 crores, a government job, and a plot of land at 50 percent concession to wrestler Bajrang Punia for winning the bronze medal at Tokyo 2020.

National highways are being constructed at a very fast pace under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the entire country can hope of getting highways of an American standard in the next three years, Union Highways and Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Saturday.

Its net interest income — the difference between the interest earned and the interest expended — came in at Rs 7,891.67 crore in the June quarter, up 15.78 percent on a year-on-year basis.

As tens of thousands of athletes, journalists and officials get ready to pack up and leave Monday, Japan will be left to pick over the answers to these questions, maybe for years.

Cement manufacturer Nuvoco Vistas Corporation, a part of the Nirma Group, has raised Rs 1,500 crore from anchor investors ahead of its initial public offer , which will open for subscription on Monday, August 9.

Lamenting the US has allocated only 7.5 million doses of Covid vaccines to India, a top Indian-American Congressman has urged the Biden administration to do more by expanding its global vaccine aid programme to it at a time when the world faces the threat of new, vaccine-resistant coronavirus variants.

The official price tag for the Tokyo Olympics is $15.4 billion, which a University of Oxford study says is the most expensive on record.

This could have been a historic win for India.In the final round, she fired five birdies — on the 5th, 6th, 8th, 13th and 14th holes — against two bogeys on the 9th and 11th.

India’s 23-year-old golfer, Aditi Ashok finished fourth in the final round of women’s Golf on Saturday despite being a strong contender for a medal.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday alleged the government is not able to fill these vacancies as it is looking for people who sympathise with its “retrograde” philosophy and ideology.

Spectators came out to cheer on the runners in the Olympic women’s marathon on Saturday, ignoring calls by organisers to stay home and avoid gathering in crowds that could spread COVID-19.

India saw a single-day rise of 38,628 new coronavirus cases, taking the infection tally to 3,18,95,385, while the number of deaths rose to 4,27,371 with 617 fresh fatalities, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Saturday.

Also, 17,50,081 tests were conducted on Friday, taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of Covid-19 in the country to 47,83,16,964, while the daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.21 per cent .

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