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A 27-year-old woman, who had not taken a single dose of vaccine against COVID-19, succumbed to the viral infection at a government hospital in Indore, a health official said on Wednesday. The patient was already suffering from serious ailments related to blood and kidney, the official said.

With assembly polls in Karnataka only months away, and amid the pressure to deliver and bring BJP back to power in the state, it has literally been a race against time for Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who completes one year in office on Thursday. As he looks to lead the party in the assembly polls, due before May next year, and break decades old jinx of no party in government retaining power in the state (since 1985), Bommai now has merely eight to nine months left to repackage and sell his administration's development narrative to voters.

An Army jawan was injured in an encounter with terrorists in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, police said. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation at Brayihard Kathpora in Kulgam following information about presence of terrorists there, a police official said.

More than 1,000 Lufthansa flights were cancelled on Wednesday because of a one-day strike by the airline's German ground staff, affecting tens of thousands of passengers in the latest travel turmoil to hit Europe. About 134,000 passengers had to change their travel plans or cancel them altogether. At least 47 connections had already been cancelled on Tuesday, German news agency dpa reported.

The suspected patient of monkeypox, admitted to the LNJP Hospital here, had travelled abroad about a month ago, sources said on Wednesday. A resident of Ghaziabad, the man had fever and lesions for the last one week while his reports from the National Institute of Virology, Pune are awaited, they said.

Eight children were injured after their school van overturned while trying to save a dog in Madhya Pradesh's Anuppur district on Wednesday morning, police said. The accident took place around 7.30 am near a hotel on Anuppur-Amlai road, five km from the district headquarters, Kotwali police station in-charge Amar Verma said.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to consider listing for hearing a 2020 PIL seeking a direction to the Centre to declare the Law Commission as a "statutory body" and appoint the chairperson and members to the panel. A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices Krishna Murari and Hima Kohli took note of the submissions of lawyer and petitioner Ashwini Upadhyay with regard to vacancies in the Commission.

Sri Lanka's economic crisis and pressing global challenges such as food security and climate change figured prominently in visiting USAID administrator Samantha Power's talks with her Indian interlocutors. The USAID said Power met with civil society representatives in Delhi on Tuesday to discuss freedom of expression, speech, identity, and the importance of protecting the rights of minority groups.

Church of South India (CSI) Bishop, A Dharmaraj Rasalam, is scheduled to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday with regard to the probe over corruption allegations at the church's Karakonam medical college. The Bishop, who was stopped on Tuesday from travelling to England to take part in the Lambeth Conference, was also served a notice to appear before the ED in Kochi.

A khadi tricolour with an image of a spinning wheel in the centre and hoisted by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in Meerut in November 1946 has been brought out for the first time for public display in Pune. The 9 x 14 feet flag, which is in the custody of the family of Major General (late) Ganpat R Nagar, the then General Officer Commanding of 3rd division of Indian National Army (INA), was displayed at an event in a college in Pimpri Chinchwad area here in Maharashtra for three days from Sunday.

Unrest prevailed in Bellare and other places in Sullia taluk of Dakshina Kannada district after the murder of a Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) leader, who was hacked to death by unidentified motorbike-borne duo. The youth was just about to return home on Tuesday night after closing his poultry shop when he was brutally attacked by the two assailants who were on a bike registered in Kerala.

Worried over the rise in cyber crimes in Odisha, with fraudsters impersonating senior officers online to raise funds from people, the state government has asked Netizens to exercise caution during all financial transactions. The government issued a statement to say that cyber criminals are using photos of senior bureaucrats on WhatsApp and other messaging platforms on social media, asking people to pay bills.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will travel to the Uzbek capital Tashkent on a two-day visit beginning Thursday to attend a foreign ministerial conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and their Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto are also expected to attend the SCO meet.

A road was blocked in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district following a landslide, the state disaster management department said on Wednesday. The landslide near Nehru Kund in Manali tehsil occurred on Tuesday night, it added. According to information received from police, the traffic has been diverted through Palchan till boulders are cleared from the road.

Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping will speak Thursday, according to a US official, their first conversation in four months coming amid new tension between Washington and Beijing over China's claims on Taiwan.

A group of locals allegedly told a 16-year-old Dalit girl not to attend school on the ground that other girls were also not studying in a village here in Madhya Pradesh, a police official said. Police have arrested seven persons in connection with the incident which took place on Saturday after a clash broke out between families of the girl and the accused in Bawaliyakhedi village, leaving some people injured, he said.

An encounter has broken out between security forces and unidentified terrorists at Brayihard Kathpora area of Kulgam on Wednesday morning.

The Supreme Court will deliver its judgment on a batch of pleas challenging the various provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) on Wednesday. The verdict by the bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and CT Ravi Kumar is likely to affect a huge number of opposition leaders -- including Congress's Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi -- who are under the scanner of the Central investigating agency.